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November 17 () –
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to reform the Human Rights Council which, from now on, will include the participation of Commander Alexander Kots, in charge of some of the Russian military operations in Ukraine.
Together with Kots, Putin has also included Elena Shishkina, high representative of the All-Russian Popular Front -founded by Putin himself in 2011-, the president of the NGO Just Aid, Olga Demicheva, and eight other prominent figures, according to the Russian agency TASS.
Putin’s decision to include ten new members of the Human Rights Council entails the departure of as many representatives, including journalists Ekaterina Vinakurova, Ivan Zasurski and Nikolais Svanidze.
Likewise, the president of the organization for the defense of Human Rights Committee Against Torture, Igor Kaliapin, or the executive secretary of the Saint Petersburg Human Rights Council, Natalia Evdokimova, have also been left out.
The Russian Human Rights Council is a body founded in 1993 and later reformed in 2004. Its main mission is to advise the president of the country to guarantee and protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens.
