US, Russia Locked in Battle Over Human Rights Narratives

Russia wasted no time in seeking to exploit the U.S. decision Wednesday to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council, putting forward its candidacy for a seat on the Geneva-based body and casting the American exit as a reflection of Washington’s new unilateralist approach to global affairs. European diplomats say their Russian counterparts — as well as Russian state media outlets — pounced quickly to portray the Kremlin as the defender of multilateralism and to couch the U.S. decision...

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