Russia cancels education, culture and media memorandum with US

The Russian government has adopted a proposal by the Russian Foreign Ministry to withdraw the memorandum on the principles of cooperation with the US in the field of education, culture and media, according to the official website of legal information.

The Russian Foreign Ministry is obliged to inform the American side about this decision, the relevant announcement states.

The memorandum on the principles of cooperation between the two countries was signed on September 2, 1998. According to it, Moscow and Washington had agreed to cooperate in the field of cultural exchanges and to contribute to the understanding of each other’s cultures.

One of the positions of the memorandum provided for cooperation between “youth organizations, women’s organizations and non-governmental organizations of the two countries”.

Russia has withdrawn from many international treaties since the start of the war in Ukraine. In mid-May, for example, Moscow decided to leave the Baltic Council of States. The Russian Foreign Ministry believes that NATO and the EU member states have “abandoned the equal dialogue and the principles on which this regional structure in the Baltic Sea is based and are firmly turning it into an instrument of anti-Russian policy.”

In addition, last week the Foreign Ministry sent a proposal to the State Duma (lower house) for Russia’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). “We will reconsider the international agreements: Russia has withdrawn from the Council of Europe, the next in line is the withdrawal from the WTO and the WTO, as well as other agreements that do harm instead of good,” the vice-president said at the time. Lower House Peter Tolstoy.

In March, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to expel Russia from the Council of Europe. This happened after the unanimous vote of the KSSE in favor of the “immediate” withdrawal of Russia from the organization. The ECtHR has stated that Russia will lose its status as a party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September.

Source: Novayagazeta.europe

Source: Capital

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