“I have already left the council. There is no clear exit procedure: a person does not want to work on the council; he leaves it. No one should let him go, no one can delay him. He does not have to justify anything, ”Morshchakov quotes Interfax.

Earlier, a source told RT that Tamara Morshchakova, a retired Constitutional Court judge, wrote a letter of resignation from the HRC.

On October 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the head of the HRC, Mikhail Fedotov, in his place appointed Secretary of the Public Chamber Valery Fadeev.