Deputy Minister of Internal Afairs and the Deputy Minister of Justice, as well as with senior ofcials of these Ministries. Consultations were also held with the Prosecutor General. The high-level talks were organised in the aftermath of police interventions on 30 November 2013 at Independence Square (“Maidan”) and on 1 December 2013 on Bankova Street in Kyiv. The main objective of the talks was to obtain details about all the persons deprived of their liberty in the context of the then ongoing demonstrations in Kyiv and the investigations which had been initiated following complaints of detained demonstrators about ill-treatment by law enforcement ofcials. In addition, discussions were held on the action taken by the relevant authorities to prevent future instances of ill-treatment and/or excessive use of force during police interventions. 23. On 24 September 2014, representatives of the CPT participated in a round table in Moscow organised by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in co-operation with the CPT. The event was held following the publication of the Committee’s reports on two visits to the country, namely the 2011 ad hoc visit to the North Caucasian region of the Russian Federation and the 2012 periodic visit to the country. It provided a useful opportunity to meet and discuss issues of common interest with Maxim Travnikov, Deputy Minister of Justice, and senior ofcials from the Ministries of Justice, the Interior and Foreign Afairs, as well as from the Federal Service for the Execution of Sentences, the Investigative Committee, the Federal Drug Control Service, the Ofce of the Human Rights Commissioner and the Council of Public Monitoring Commissions. The discussions focused on the implementation by the Russian authorities of General Report of the CPT, 2013-2014 ► Page 14 the recommendations made by the CPT in the past: in particular those referred to in the two aforementioned visit reports. Special attention was paid to the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty by law enforcement agencies and the situation of inmates held in pre-trial detention, as well as to the provision of health care in penitentiary establishments and the conditions of detention of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment. The issue of investigations into allegations of illtreatment by law enforcement and prison ofcers was also addressed in detail. Plenary meetings and activities of subgroups 24. The CPT held four one-week plenary meetings during the period covered by this General Report, in November 2013 and in March, July and November 2014. A total of 22 visit reports were adopted by the Committee at these meetings. 25. At its March 2014 plenary meeting, the Committee had an exchange of views with judges of the European Court of Human Rights, including the Court’s President, Dean Spielmann. The exchange of views focused on three topics: (a) the extra-territorial application of the European Convention on Human Rights and its implication on the CPT’s activities, (b) recent developments in the Court’s case-law as regards the “efectiveness” of investigations, in particular concerning the criterion of “independence”, and (c) prisoners sentenced to “actual” life imprisonment (i.e. without the possibility of conditional release). 26. In view of the infux of new members in 2014 and in order to refresh the skills of all members, a half-day during the plenary meetings in July and November 2014 was devoted to training in the techniques of visiting police stations and psychiatric