Aaron Rhodes,interviewed today:
RFE/RL: But it really looks as if bodies like the Council of Europe, for example, and even now the European Union, are trying to be more active in establishing human rights standards and democratic standards that roused the OSCE recently.
Rhodes: But at the same time those organizations are operating on different principles. Also, I might add that in the Council of Europe they have some of the same problems.... The Council of Europe, as containing as it does Russia, and a number of other post-Soviet states – they also are blocked from anything doing about serious problems like Chechnya. A lot of the same paradoxes apply.
RFE/RL: Is it because Russia is blocking both organizations from being effective?
Rhodes: Yes.
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