The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) voted to recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. In addition, PACE recognized Russian President Vladimir Putin as a dictator and Russia as a dictatorship. The publication Ukrainskaya Pravda spoke about this in more detail. Recognition of the Holodomor as genocide On recognition of the Holodomor as genocide...
The new Ukrainian delegation to PACE officially refused to participate in the autumn session. As stated in the statement, quoted on Facebook by the head of the delegation Liza Yasko, Kiev will not submit documents for participation in the autumn session, which should take place from September 30 ...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution limiting the assembly's sanctions mechanism. This opens up an opportunity for the Russian delegation to return to PACE. The delegation is already in Strasbourg, media reported. The resolution was adopted after discussing the report of PACE member Petra de Sutter, 118 voted for it ...
Olga Skabeeva, the host of the Russian political talk show “60 Minutes”, which airs on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, tried to interview members of the Ukrainian PACE delegation, but in response she heard the Ukrainian anthem. Later, on Channel One, Skabeeva talked about what happened: “People were sweating...
On May 15, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunity and Institutional Issues recognized the head of the Spanish delegation to PACE Pedro Agramunta, the head of the European People's Party and a member of the PACE Regulatory Committee Caesar Florin Predu, the head of the Azerbaijani delegation Samad Seyidov, ...
The possible withdrawal of Russia from the Council of Europe means that our country will have no legal obstacles to the return of such a measure of punishment as the death penalty. This prospect was outlined by one of the members of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Recall that after ...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Wednesday, January 28, decided to extend the sanctions against the delegation of the Russian Federation and deprive it of the right to vote and participate in the governing bodies of the Assembly until April 2015. TASS reports. The corresponding amendment was adopted by ...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has approved a new resolution on Ukraine, which harshly criticizes Russia. In particular, PACE accused the Russians of annexing Crimea and financing pro-Russian militants operating in the Donbass, and called for the release of the prisoners of war. It is reported by "Evropeyskaya Pravda". For this resolution ...