20/04/2021 | 14:06:48 Dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to say sorry for being emotional. I think that you can all understand it if you think about the fact that every day, Ukrainian soldiers are killed. We are currently under an enormous amount of pressure. I was never aware of the rule that we cannot show national flags. Yesterday one of our colleagues showed photos during the debate and nobody interrupted him. I was not aware of this rule. I'm sorry for this. About the amendment, it's extremely... 20/04/2021 | 11:11:24 Dear Colleagues, It is an extremely important question, and "strategic priorities of the Council of Europe" are such important words. Now, just several minutes ago, Chancellor Angela MERKEL reminded us of the words of Konrad Adenauer who said that we are "the conscience of Europe". The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Council of Europe in general, "the conscience of Europe": such important words. She said that many things changed, but this is something which will not... 28/01/2021 | 10:26:21 Thank you very much. As I said in my speech, the report is really great. Thanks again to rapporteur or for all the work done. But the only word is absent there is a small word, "not", "not ratify". Dear colleagues, I want to ask all of you to support it. It's about prinicples. You will see that in one or two years, you will see the results. You will say, "Yes, I should vote "not" at this moment". II just want to tell you that we will challenge the credentials of the Russian delegation. You... 28/01/2021 | 10:02:09 Thank you very much, Mister President. I just want to stress the attention of everybody. When at the beginning you, Mister President, told us that there are rules of conduct here, of behaviour, I think you didn't mention that it's okay to say that one delegate is a dog. Everybody who is here, who understands the English language -maybe Mr Leonid SLUTSKIY doesn't understand - knows that I didn't say this. I think you should say something to these... I don't know what to call them. In the... 28/01/2021 | 09:15:22 Thank you, Mister Chairman. It is a big honor to speak first on behalf of the European Conservative Group on this extremely important issue. We are now discussing a very important topic. I want to thank rapporteur Mr Stefan SCHENNACH for the really great work which was done by him. But I can't understand one thing: if you read all his report, at the end it should read "not ratify credentials". It's a logical conclusion of what is written in the report. It looks very strange for me that in the... 27/01/2021 | 17:41:07 Thank you chair Dear colleagues, Now we are discussing an extremely important question about non-government organisations and now we really finally have a possibility to do something for Russian citizens. Because when we are told that let's do something for Russian citizens, giving a possibility to representatives of Russian authorities, for example, to be here without any sanctions: it's not really working for Russian citizens. When we are saying that we are doing something for Russian... 27/01/2021 | 16:21:29 I now would like to appeal to the people of Russia. It's Russian children who are now being hit in the center of Russia. It's not Poles, it's not Ukrainians, it's not anybody else. It's Russians who are being hit and are being attacked by Russians. And look at these people sitting around here. Look at them. They are people who have pillaged and ravaged your country. And how long are we going to go on? Look what's happening! Look what's happening to you, to your neighbors! Look what kind of... 27/01/2021 | 16:19:33 Sorry. Thank you. Dear Madame President and colleagues, First of all, I would like us to see the name of our topic "The arrest and detention of Alexei Navalny", but sorry, everything began with the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, the poisoning with chemical weapons, with novichok in the 21st century. First, it was Salisbury, and then it was Alexei Navalny and novichok. My dear colleagues, now in Europe we can see it with our own eyes. It's absolutely unacceptable. Then, Navalny came back to... 26/01/2021 | 18:40:56 Dear colleagues, I would like just to remind all of you why this report appeared in our agenda. It was summer 2019 when the majority of you decided to take back the Russian Federation here, their delegation, without any sanctions. Any at all. After they are not fulfilling any of the resolutions that were adopted here. Absolutely any of them. And we have two years left and just let us analyze the situation. You'd said at that time "we will have a dialogue with the Russian Federation, and it... 26/01/2021 | 16:25:24 Thank you. Dear Mr MAAS, we have a very difficult situation in Belarus. You know that in August Lukashenko falsified presidential elections, then self-proclaimed himself President of Belarus, and now he is constantly using violence against peaceful protesters. At least four people have been killed but probably much more than this number. Thousands are wounded. What will be done during your Chairmanship of Germany in the Committee of Ministers in order to influence Lukashenko's regime? What...