Russia can be excluded from the Council of Europe in 2019

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, spoke in favor of excluding Russia from the Council of Europe if it continued to evade payments to the organization’s budget. Russia itself has previously stated that it does not exclude exit from the Council of Europe. In 2016 - 2017, the Russian delegation did not send an application to confirm its authority because of the “Russophobic” sentiments that remain in Strasbourg.
Russia can be excluded from participation in the Council of Europe if Moscow does not resume payments to the organization’s budget next year, CE Secretary General Torbjørn Jagland said in a debate on the European future.

Europolitician recalled that the CE Charter allows imposing additional sanctions on a state that does not pay membership dues. In this case, the executive body - the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe - may terminate Russia's participation in the work of the PACE and the CMCE itself, reports European Truth.

Jagland expressed confidence that in the event of non-payment continuation, these sanctions would have to be imposed.
“According to the charter, if the state does not pay two years, Article 9 will apply. Two years (Russian defaults) will be in June of the next year. And I believe that after this, the CMCE will not only be able, but should apply the article. It is absolutely unacceptable to tolerate that the country, which is still here, did not pay dues.
You can’t be half a member, not half, it would be a disaster for the whole convention, ”said the Secretary General.
However, Russia itself has previously stated that it does not exclude exit from the Council of Europe. This was told by the chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, at a meeting with the head of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Lillan Mori Pasquier, on September 20.