How the Protest Law Violates European Norms

In an opinion editorial in The Moscow Times, former State Duma deputy, Vladimir Ryzhkov outlines how the recent law regulating protest rallies violates European norms. He says that it openly and flagrantly violates the Russia’s own Constitution, as well as obligations that Moscow accepted as a member of the Council of Europe. The attempts by the Kremlin to tell us otherwise are just a pack of lies.