How can the UK and its partners use bilateral diplomacy and multilateral organisations to promote freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial and the right to free and fair elections in Russia?

This breakfast seminar on 2 March 2005 with David Atkinson, the Council of Europe's Co-Rapporteur on Russian Commitments, addressed Russia's human rights situation through the lens of the legal and administrative reforms of Vladimir Putin. How effective are the Council of Europe and the OSCE at upholding rights, and how will Russia's relationship with them develop?