Putin expelled Kalyapin and Svanidze from the Human Rights Council, and Kots, an employee of Komsomolskaya Pravda, joined the council instead.
President Vladimir Putin updated the composition of the HRC, expelling from it human rights activists Igor Kalyapin and Alexander Verkhovsky, as well as journalists Nikolai Svanidze and Ekaterina Vinokurova, and instead the council included POC member Alexei Melnikov and Komsomolskaya Pravda employee Alexander Kots. The decree was published on the legal information portal. , was also expelled from the Human Rights Council Andrei Babushkin, who died in May of this year .