Russia officially leaves the European Network of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANRI). According to RAPSI, Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova announced this at a meeting of the General Assembly of the organization.
According to her, this decision was made because of the "obvious dependence" of the members of the GANRI board on the "collective West." “When these Russophobic metastases spread to the field of human rights, the process of our withdrawal from the organization became irreversible,” Moskalkova said. She reproached foreign human rights activists for not paying attention to the beating of protesters in France, as well as to the biolaboratories that the United States, in her opinion, are placing in Ukraine.
In March, it was reported that the GANRI European Network was considering expelling Moskalkova from the organization because she had come under EU sanctions. Moskalkova herself said that one of the reasons was the refusal to remove “truthful information about discrimination and genocide against the inhabitants of Donbass in 2014-2022” from the website of the Russian Ombudsman.
GANRY has been in existence since 1993 and includes 120 organizations from all over the world. The Russian Ombudsman joined the organization's European Network in 2017.