28/01/2022 | 10:57:38 Good morning dear colleagues. I hope that I can be clearly seen and heard. Regrettably, the report we're discussing, Mr Michael Aastrup JENSEN's report, gives rise to quite a lot of questions. In principle, the Russian delegation feels that the time has long since passed when we should have moved to situation-based monitoring rather than country-based monitoring when any situation of non-compliance with the lofty standards of the Council of Europe is considered by the Monitoring Committee... 26/01/2022 | 16:49:26 Good evening, Tiny, good evening, dear colleagues. We are talking, not just about the same issue over and over again every January, but we are hearing the same arguments and the same speeches. I mean, they are saying the same things as a year ago and two years ago. Once again, Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO is getting excited and is trying to attack the dignity of the President of the Russian Federation. He is trying once again to compare our Assembly, as he did last year, with a dog. What kind of a... 25/01/2022 | 10:02:01 Distinguished colleagues, We are discussing an issue which has come up time and time again in this House. Mr Fourat BEN CHIKHA and Mr Christophe LACROIX have drafted some more reports, but I believe we are paying too much attention to this category of European citizens. Let me tell you a little bit about the situation in my country. The former speaker of the state Duma, Mr Sergey Naryshkin, spoke about this a number of years ago. He said, speaking here, that there are no obstacles to this... 30/09/2021 | 10:26:52 Thank you, Madam President, dear colleagues, I shall try to be brief. The situation is extremely sensitive in Afghanistan. The Taliban movement is acting as victors. Indeed it is true that they have won the war. It would be difficult to expect them to comply with all the rules and norms which existed beforehand. The previous government and the international forces which supported it have been defeated. This happened for a whole host of reasons: corruption, inefficiency of the government and a... 27/09/2021 | 15:59:51 Thank you Mr President, I am going to be speaking Russian. The last two speakers have made me change my plans for what I am going to say. And what Mr Oleksandr MEREZHKO has said is quite out of place. We constantly hear this kind of statement recently from the Ukraine delegation. It's all rubbish, it's all untrue. And with regards to what Ms Laima Liucija ANDRIKIENĖ has said vis à vis the Russian elections to our Duma, to our parliament, this is not at all in keeping with what actually... 20/04/2021 | 11:34:50 Thank you President. It's a great honour and pleasure to be able to speak on this item. Mr Tiny KOX is one of the most authoritative members of our Assembly and the draft resolution has many important points about an important inclusive political dialogue as the fundamental bedrock of our organisation. Multilateralism, democratic security. At the same time it suggests how we should proceed in future. We have this question of the Monitoring Committee that was established in the 1990s when... 19/04/2021 | 18:15:11 Good afternoon. Madam President, I do apologise. I had some technical problems. First of all I would like to greet you from the Duma in Moscow. I would like to thank the rapporteur Ms Elvira KOVÁCS for her excellent report, and I would like to really agree with everything said by Mr Boriss CILEVIČS as well as Mr Oleg VOLOSHYN. I agree, there have been breeches to this framework Convention for the protection of national minorities as well as the Charter for regional languages. In particular... 28/01/2021 | 09:58:01 Thank you, thank you, Mister President, I would also like to thank our rapporteur, Mr Stefan SCHENNACH, for the difficult work that he has done. I'd also like to thank the leaders of the three largest political groups of our Assembly, Mr Andreas NICK, Mr Tiny KOX, and Mr Frank SCHWABE, who, while stating certain critical things about our country, who, nevertheless, used a very positive tone. Thank you also to Mr Kimmo KILJUNEN for what he has just said. Colleagues, I would call for the... 27/01/2021 | 17:04:24 Thank you very much, Mister President. Dear Colleagues, Mister Jacques MAIRE, you are a lawyer by profession. You are here within the Parliamentary Assembly, and here you should be a lawyer and stand up for the truth. I will continue my comments in Russian. [In Russian] Mr MAIRE has addressed us earlier, and he said that the detention of Mr Navalny was not in line with the standards of the Council of Europe. Now the Council of Europe is a body whose standards should not include lies. Sadly... 25/01/2021 | 17:34:13 Thank you, President. President, I would like to begin my comments by responding to what was stated in Mr Michael Aastrup JENSEN's report. He stated that the co-rapporteurs were not able to visit Russia. Now, in fact, we have just gone through a very, very difficult year and, indeed, I'd like to wish all of you good health, and all of your loved ones good health. I hope this year will be easier than last year. I believe that we will be able to co-operate in fighting against the terrible...