26/01/2022 | 11:23:49 Thank you very much Mr President. We overall support the initiatives and proposals in the draft Resolution. At the same time we would like to point out that certain clauses of this Resolution - especially paragraphs 3 and 4 - seem to draw too much attention to potential human rights violations in preparations of the World Cup in Qatar, which we cannot support. This is a dubious approach that smacks of intervention in internal affairs of states by international organisations which could lead... 25/01/2022 | 19:13:02 Thank you once again. On the first amendment and the second which is related to amendment 1. Once again, I would like to say that in the report it is tantamount to saying that you have to categorise media into purportedly free and independent media on the one hand and unfree and dependent media. And in the various sections of the report, you have this complicated additional terminology. But if we are going to divide the media into free and independent on the one hand and unfree and... 25/01/2022 | 19:08:55 Thank you, good evening. Distinguished colleagues, first of all I'd like to request your support for amendment 1 and amendment 2. They talk about the comprehensive use of the same name for media, talking about free and independent media. This report is really only about the media in general. In the second and third sentences of paragraph 1, you have this definition of free and independent media which is rather strange in reports such as this. For some reason, the rapporteur presumes that the... 20/04/2021 | 16:53:35 Good afternoon dear colleagues. The Russian Federation as well as the international community as a whole understands that there are major insufficiencies in taxation rules for digital companies which have currently created a situation in which the effective corporate tax rate of these companies is much lower than for companies of other sectors, given the limited physical presence of these digital companies in the countries of residence of their users. These problems are the catalyst for the... 20/11/2020 | 17:22:59 Distinguished colleagues, The definition of academic freedom was adopted by ministers of higher education just yesterday. Having said that a Hungarian colleague will issue a comparative assessment on the state of affairs in Europe. Although we were told not to discuss specific countries, there is Hungary, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Russia in the lagging category. How can that be if there is no case law or implementation of this definition of academic freedom? Furthermore, the report is... 28/01/2020 | 19:31:25 Dear colleagues, Although the topic at hand is in line with Russian interest, and media freedom and journalist's safety is paid particular attention in the Russian Federation, the content of the draft resolution, in our opinion, is extremely provocative and includes numerous provisions which are not acceptable to us. The document is a clear example of a selective tendentious approach to certain member states of the Council of Europe. We do not support the conclusions included on the document...