Russia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.This is something President Putin called “unacceptable” and “discriminatory.”The Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia’s participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov clarified that the convention's denunciation would not undermine Russia's fight against corruption, including the mutual extradition of suspects and those accused of crimes related to it.This (denunciation of the convention) in no way undermines, let's say, our legislative potential, I mean the internal potential of the fight against corruption,” Peskov told reporters."