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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220406-011203-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-backdoor-exit-from-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/ A Backdoor Exit from the European Convention on Human Rights - Russia, the Council of Europe and Article 58(3) ECHR Mantilla Blanco, Sebastián eng 2022-04-05 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Council of Europe ECHR ECtHR Russian War against Ukraine Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Russia left the Council of Europe on 16 March 2022. The European Court of Human Rights declared that Russia will remain a Party to the Convention until 16 September 2022. This resolution is inconsistent with applicable termination rules. But even beyond technicalities, it reveals fundamental defects in the design of the ECHR denunciation clause. Forced withdrawal and expulsion from the Council, as mechanisms to sanction severe violations of human rights, should not have the effect of relieving the delinquent State of its conventional human rights obligations.