28/01/2022 | 11:16:02 Distinguished colleagues, I hope you can all hear me. I am delighted that there are no complaints about my country's implementation of the voluntary commitments which the Russian Federation took upon itself under the Assembly resolutions and for which there is a monitoring procedure. That means that, de facto, Russia long ago implemented all of its obligations. It should therefore move to the post-monitoring dialogue stage. We are disappointed that for yet another year, there is inclusion of... 26/01/2022 | 16:31:12 Mister President, Dear colleagues, I'll start over again. Now we can sense quite a bit of a tension, and even fatigue, because of the fact that for a third year in a row now, the opening of the PACE Session is starting with the same issue initiated by certain people against one national delegation. Our colleagues are quite deliberately disseminating russophobic attitudes. By putting this issue on the order of business in a deliberately slanderous manner, the initiators are ignoring a pan... 30/09/2021 | 18:01:08 President, colleagues, I, too, would like to make a few comments taking up a number of points which have already been made and also make a few comments on this report as such. What we are talking about is an area where things are moving forward very quickly indeed. In all countries we're really behind the curve when it comes to this, and that certainly would apply to this document also. International instruments as we see them should be universal. We need issues like this to be discussed at... 23/06/2021 | 18:08:27 Thank you, Madam President. We, of course, very much desire that the rights of Tatars in Crimea be respected. However, this report does not, in our view, give an objective picture of the situation. It does not give objective information about the life of Crimean Tatars, nor of changes that might have taken place after unification with Crimea. The report says nothing about the fact that major changes took place after the reunification with Russia. For example, we re-instated traditional... 28/01/2021 | 13:32:22 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Article 10 of the ECHR declares that everyone has the right to freedom of expression, the right to impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. However, the freedom of speech and expression is violated more and more often in social networks, online mass media discrimination and blocking access to Internet platforms performed by the largest Internet companies have become more frequent. In... 27/01/2021 | 18:13:23 Dear colleagues, dear friends, I'm not going to be praising the report like previous speakers. I find it a great pity that the work on this report was done without a deep understanding of the problem and without a careful study of the way NGO activities are governed in various cases. Because of the lack of a professional, legal assessment of the national legislation of various countries including the Russian Federation, we don't end up with a comparative legal analysis. I think that it's... 26/01/2021 | 12:58:50 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Work carried out by international courts is extremely vital since for many people the decisions issued by ECtHR seen as the only way of protecting their rights, provided that all domestic remedies have been exhausted. All ECtHR decisions and documents relating to ECtHR activities, must be verified and based on an accurate interpretation of existing legal norms. It is, hence, especially important to assess legal provisions of the participating... 30/01/2020 | 19:12:04 Thank you, President, Dear colleagues, It is very obvious that the existing monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe, especially the one of the Parliamentary Assembly, urgently need to be reformed. Let me remind you that the main purpose of monitoring is to provide support to the participating states in the Parliamentary Assembly in their work on improving democratic institutions and procedures. Now, obviously, such assistance should be fully depoliticised. Let me remind you that seven... 29/01/2020 | 19:17:52 Distinguished colleagues, Thank you for giving me the floor. I'd like to move our discussion away from Ukraine to the grounds for today's debate and draw your attention to the fact that Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS raised this question and yet is not taking part in this debate, but thereby he has more or less shown how unsubstantiated this motion is. The issue was of an undemocratic approach to amendments to the Russian constitution, and quite a lot has been said on this issue which has been...