Conclusion: A Legacy of Bad Faith
Journal: Policy Press eBooks
Year: 2025

The concluding chapter takes stock of the overall experience of Russia’s membership to distil certain lessons for the future. It notes that although the authorities of Russia are exclusively responsible for their violations of the Convention and the Statute, the experience of engagement and the asymmetric responses by the CoE to the serious breaches of its norms point to systemic and structural weaknesses within the CoE. The chapter refers to these as the ‘Triple Fault’ scenario whereby the prim