14/09/2010 Monitoring
In an information note published last Thursday on their fact-finding visits to Moscow and Murmansk in March and July 2010, the PACE co-rapporteurs on Russia, György Frunda (Romania, EPP/CD) and Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC), welcomed the tangible progress made in some areas since the last monitoring report in 2005.
They were concerned, however, about a failure to liberalise electoral legislation sufficiently and considered that more progress was needed to strengthen pluralist democracy and speed up the reform of justice. They welcomed the Russian authorities’ clear political will to co-operate with the Assembly and engage in open dialogue on Russia’s obligations and commitments.
The co-rapporteurs will prepare a report by the end of 2010 for plenary debate in spring or summer 2011.