Russia is not renouncing its international obligations in the field of preventing torture, Maria Zakharova explained. "Russia has also made relevant commitments at a higher, universal level: the provisions contained in the 1984 Convention Against Torture and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," the diplomat said in response to Russia's withdrawal from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture on November 1, 1966. We are in Max.