30/09/2026 | 19:11:15 Dear friends, Actually, I've been here since 1993 and I remember the first Russian commitments here in this hall when they were admitted in 1996. Can you imagine? First point, there are three, the withdrawal of the 14th Russian army from Transnistria. Second, compensation for Siberia during the time of Mr Joseph STALIN. That was the Mr Boris YELTSIN time. From the Boris YELTSIN time we are coming year by year back to the totalitarian regime of Mr Joseph STALIN. And now this regime is... 29/09/2026 | 17:06:05 Dear friends, it's about what our House was built like. Our house was built like an echo to Second World War. My mother was liberated from a Nazi concentration camp and the House, the Council of Europe, was built on humanity. So today, congratulating our good rapporteurs, Ms Lesia ZABURANNA and Mr Jan Filip LIBICKI, I would like to say that our first duty is to dedicate our attention to those – you call them veterans – but to those brave men and women who defended us, Europe, on the front... 25/06/2026 | 16:52:11 Thank you, Madam President. Madam Chairwoman, Dear colleagues, Mr Constantinos EFSTATHIOU touched the bottom – the real masterminders of international or transnational repressions, and it was high time to do that after the European Parliament did it in a fantastic resolution addressing the international repression of human rights defenders. Synchronising our moves with our colleagues in the European Parliament, we add something more. But I would like to turn your attention to concrete cases... 24/06/2026 | 17:40:31 Dear friends, We had Georgia 10 years ago. More like 10 years ago, like a leading country to the Western democratic integration and they were a shining example. Now we are facing, by mostly all of you, remarks that the country is on the way to becoming a dictatorship and on the hook of Russian totalitarian influence. Today I would like to call on Georgian authorities to free all arbitrarily detained persons and end impunity for violations committed by law enforcement agencies, including... 23/06/2026 | 12:48:41 Dear colleagues from Monaco, I would like to say thank you. It was two brilliant meetings in Monaco for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and your leadership is fantastic. My question to you is very simple. It has two parts, A and B. Question A is about how to speed up the process of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, which was created by us after Reykjavík, how to strengthen, speed up and implement it. And second, very simply, by Russian law... 22/04/2026 | 19:15:25 Dear friends, I remember the discussion. The discussion was 12 years ago, Andreas GROSS and other friends and I were supporting the Magnitsky resolution, and that was a fight like in the times of Napoleon. It was our water law fight. And when the Russia delegation put lies on our side, saying "that is not true", and we say "that it's true" and supported a Browder's investigation. MAGNITSKY is a Russian guy, just like Boris NEMTSOV, just like NAVALNY. Actually, NAVALNY was killed and poisoned... 22/04/2026 | 17:06:32 Thank you. Madam Speaker and dear friends, My mother spent four years in a Nazi camp. After she survived the terrible Stutthof concentration camp, and my grandfather Dachau, I never heard her calling for hatred. Hatred and revenge. We built this... It was built at this Council of Europe: the neglect to revenge means capital punishment. That's our core values. That's why today I will vote in favour of this resolution. I would like to thank the rapporteur. Bearing that in mind, we should have a... 29/01/2026 | 10:50:17 Dear colleagues, I would also like to address my words to Mrs Petra BAYR and say that I am very happy that you are now the President because you have dedicated your whole life to human rights. In my view, all the conventions of the Council of Europe also apply to Greenland. Greenland is under our patronage and, above all, what we have achieved in the last 80 years, 75 years I believe, and therefore we must stand by the side of our fellow member, Greenland. I am very glad that the Royal Family... 27/01/2026 | 12:50:14 Thank you. Today we are marking the incredibly dark page, the darkest page in the history of European nations. One of the Yiddish-speaking nations disappeared. Every child was hunted by Nazis and their collaborators in every village. And of course today we are making a broader remembrance. I think the State of Israel was established as an answer, as an echo of the Second World War. And I come from a Holocaust-surviving family. My mother spent four years in the Stutthof Nazi camp and my... 26/01/2026 | 13:42:50 Dear colleagues and friends, I would like to ask you to take your places and concentrate a little bit. Thank you for doing that. I see a lot of familiar faces in the neighbouring corridors. Please. Very nice from your side, to wait. I am sorry that we will have to wait a little bit longer. So I would like to resume the sitting; the election of the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I would like to announce the results of the election for the President of the...