Russia has officially withdrawn from the European Convention against Torture after 28 years of participation, the Council of Europe announced. The decision entered into force on November 1, after which the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture lost the opportunity to conduct independent inspections of Russian colonies, pretrial detention centers and other places of deprivation of liberty. For my own sake, I will say that the device has never worked before; No one ever conducted torture tests in my colony. Official inspections were conducted, attended by members of the committee from the local bureau, which consists of former heads of the Federal Correctional Service. The examination itself lasted a few minutes, an examination of the gathered prisoners with the question "Who wants to go to a personal reception", after the answer "no" received by the synchronized choir, the members of the committee left, the drinking in the administration subsided for a few hours, from personal experience, sometimes they did without it.