25/01/2021 | 19:18:01 Mr Sergey FABRICHNYY spoke here about Russian speaking minorities. I will respond in Russian. Now, I was born and grew up in Odessa. Russian is of course my first language, and I know the Russian poets by heart far better than many Russians and far better than Mr Putin. I think it's very important however to really take into consideration something else: Mr Putin ought to take his hands off the territories of Ukraine, off Crimea, and I do feel that is indeed the issue. As far as the... 25/01/2021 | 16:49:23 Several minutes ago you said that it is the coronavirus which doesn't allow for the European Commission on Human Rights to enter Crimea. But it is not the coronavirus, it is the Russian authorities who don't allow him to go through Ukraine legally to Crimea. And the coronavirus has not stopped you from coming to Moscow on 19 October. So what are the concrete results of your visit to Moscow in October? Please inform us, but don't use it as Russian propaganda to say that the crisis between the... 25/01/2021 | 13:01:04 Dear colleagues, Dear chairman, You see that we had been voting on the Russian delegation credentials recently and I first would like to say thank you to everybody who supported the position of Ukrainian delegation and voted for challenging the credentials of Russian delegation. And I want to address those who didn't support this issue for the moment. Please think. Please think and understand one issue: now it is the war in the world between Russian world and civilized world. What we have... 25/01/2021 | 12:20:39 President. Thank you everybody and hello to everybody. I just want to say that it's extremely important to have a debate on the Navalny case on Wednesday – as early as possible – because what is going on in the Russian Federation now it's absolute Stalinism, it's terror against its own citizens, again Novichok against the leader of opposition, chemical weapons, detaining illegally a person, hundreds beaten, thousands arrested, and we cannot wait until even Thursday. The earlier the better. So... 30/01/2020 | 15:48:31 Thank you. Thank you, Chairman. Dear colleagues, Yesterday, I told myself that I will not, during this session, say the word Russia anymore. But, unfortunately, I should do this again because it's an extremely important issue and I want to thank everybody who were proposing this debate. We know, today, the latest news that yesterday evening-night in Idlib, a rebel-held province in Syria, there was an air raid. It is believed that it was made by Russian military forces and because of this 10... 29/01/2020 | 19:09:43 Thank you, dear colleagues. From Russian and pro-Russian speakers today we already heard several times: trading, shopping, it's not a coincidence. Just take a look at the report that was prepared by the rapporteur. You will not find here in the draft of the report the word Crimea. You will not find here the word Georgia. But you will find a big achievement. The Russian Federation paid their money to the Council of Europe. That's why they're using these words. They think that they bought the... 29/01/2020 | 16:42:46 Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr President. Extremely important moment, extremely important report. I feel that our organisation is on the absolutely wrong track now and we can change it now during this report hearing. Why am I saying that we are on the absolutely wrong track? Just several examples. We commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, and at the same time and at the same day, well elect an anti-Semitic Vice President of the Assembly. We questioned the democracy in Poland... 27/01/2020 | 15:57:10 Thank you very much. Two minutes, okay. Thank you. I want to speak about last year. Remember the question which we were discussing about, whether to give back the Russian delegation credentials here in the hemicycle, in the Assembly, without them fulfilling any of the resolutions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. And I would like to remind you that one of the main reasons to give them back, people who were supporting it told us "we are doing it not for Putin, not for the... 26/06/2019 | 16:58:13 My dear colleagues, Today is a market day, huge sale. All our values for just 77 million euros. Democracy for 25, human rights for 25, rule of law for 25! It's a good price! We can calculate another way. This week the Council of Europe lost millions of hearts. Hearts of Ukrainians, Estonians, Georgians, Latvians, Poles, Lithuanians, British people. Nearly 50 Euro cents for one heart. It's a good price! I hear that we're doing it for Russian citizens. To protect them. So, I have a proposition... 24/06/2019 | 19:58:09 Thank you, Madam President. On a point of order, and I refer to Rule 37.1.d, I would like to move reference of the report back to the Committee. I know this has been done before in different circumstances, but we literally now received a very lengthy list of amendments. More than half of them have not been considered by the Committee, and therefore the Committee would not be able to express its view on it. The political groups did not have a possibility to walk through these amendments and to...