Member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), former judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Tamara Morshchakova resigned from the HRC. this She reported to Interfax.

Morshchakova linked her decision to the resignation of Mikhail Fedotov from the post of chairman of the council. According to her, no one at the HRC was notified about this. She suggested that Fedotov himself was not aware of his impending resignation. “The members of the council discussed this and considered that such an attitude towards them is not a sign of any minimal respect,” Morshchakova noted.

Morshchakova also considers it an unconvincing explanation that Fedotov’s departure is related to his age. She noted that there is no age limit for the chairman of the HRC.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, by decree, relieved Fedotov from the post of presidential adviser and chairman of the Human Rights Council and appointed Valery Fadeev, secretary of the Public Chamber, former presenter of Channel One, to these posts. In addition, political scientist Ekaterina Shulman and head of the human rights organization Agora Pavel Chikov were expelled from the HRC. Instead, the council included the executive director of the Rossiya Segodnya media group, Kirill Vyshinsky, and the Sverdlovsk Ombudsman Tatyana Merzlyakova. Sources close to the authorities explained Fedotov’s departure by his age, and council members called this decision political: many of them opposed the harsh dispersal of protesters and criticized the “Moscow affair.”

HRC member Tamara Morshchakova announced her resignation from the council