Russian democratic forces

Amendment No. 17 | Doc. 16247 | 30 September 2025

Signatories:

Ms Mariia MEZENTSEVA-FEDORENKO, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Ms Regina BASTOS, Portugal, EPP/CD ; Mr Christophe BRICO, Monaco, EPP/CD ; Ms Cat ECCLES, United Kingdom, SOC ; Ms Andrea EDER-GITSCHTHALER, Austria, EPP/CD ; Ms Leigh INGHAM, United Kingdom, SOC ; Mr Yuriy KAMELCHUK, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Ms Carmen LEYTE, Spain, EPP/CD ; Mr Arminas LYDEKA, Lithuania, ALDE ; Mr Mihail MITOV, Bulgaria, EPP/CD ; Mr Sigurður Helgi PÁLMASON, Iceland, SOC ; Ms Christine PASQUIER-CIULLA, Monaco, EPP/CD ; Mr Marko PAVIĆ, Croatia, EPP/CD ; Mr Gonzalo ROBLES, Spain, EPP/CD ; Ms Denitsa SACHEVA, Bulgaria, EPP/CD ; Ms Albana VOKSHI, Albania, EPP/CD ; Mr Markus WIECHEL, Sweden, ECPA

Origin

2025 - Fourth part-session

In the draft resolution, at the end of paragraph 1, insert the following sentences:

"In its Resolutions 2540 (2024) "Alexei Navalny’s death and the need to counter Vladimir Putin’s totalitarian regime and its war on democracy" and 2588 (2025) "European commitment to a just and lasting peace in Ukraine", the Assembly noted the ongoing forced russification, repression and discrimination of indigenous peoples and minorities in the Russian Federation, in breach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It concluded that genuine democracy in Russia is impossible without decolonisation, underlined that lasting peace requires the Russian Federation to abandon its imperial ambitions and called for the implementation of UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) (1960)."

Explanatory note

Reference to the previous PACE Resolutions mentioning indigenous peoples and minorities in the Russian Federation