Strasbourg- Council of Europe deputies spelled out conditions Friday for accepting Russia as member after they voted late Thursday to admit Moscow to the pan-European body.

The conditions, including pledges to ban torture and to ratify conventions protecting minority groups, referred notably to Russia's human rights record, particulary in Chechnya.

In a statement, the deputies noted that Moscow had pledged to bring to justice those suspected of human rights violations notably in relation to events in Chechnya.

The vote in the parliamentary assembly of the Council, which promotes democracy and human rights across the Continenet was 164 to 35, with 15 absetnsions.

President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia hailed the decision as a "great event" which the Kremlin saw as a sign of European confidence in the government's democratic reforms. He exultantly told reporters in Moscow that the vote had rewarded a major diplomatic effort to persuade European leaders to soften their stance toward Russia.

"I myself personally spoke to them, persuading them that this was necessary because Russia is also in Europe, "" Mr Yeltsin said. "It is like a bridge from Europe to Asia".

The assembly's statement noted that deputies had strongly condemned events in Chechnya.

Reffering to the hostage crisis in the village of Pervomayskoye, just over the border in neighboring Dagestan, it said: "The apparent indiscriminate use of force cost the lives of many innocent people and violated internationala humanitarian law.

But the statement expressed the assembly's belief that Russia "is clearly willing and will be able in the near future to fulfill the provisions for membership of the Council of Europe."

It also spelled out 25 conditions agreed to by Russia in its application to join the Council. Among these were:

- To sign the European Convention on Human Rights when it joins, to ratify the authority of the European Court.

- To sign within one year of joing a European convention banning the death penalty in peacetime and to suspend executions from the day it joins the council and within the same time limit.

- To sign a European convention protecting minority languages.

- To "settle international as well as internal disputies by peaceful means".