03/10/2025 | 11:56:17 Thank you, dear Chairman, Using this opportunity of free debate, I would like to tell you about the work of the biggest network of educational cultural centres in Ukraine, which is called Goncharenko Centres. We have 43 centres in the whole country – 43 – including a centre 20 kilometres from the Russian border. Unfortunately, we needed to stop operations in some of our centres in the Donbas area because of the Russian aggression. One of our centres is occupied in the Kherson region in... 03/10/2025 | 11:43:17 Thank you. Thank you, President. First of all, thanks to the rapporteur and the Committee for a big job done. Unfortunately, this report is partly built on my case, my personal case, when during 2023, a number of times I was not allowed to cross the border of Ukraine to participate in the events of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. This was done by the government as a kind of leverage against me as an opposition politician, which is absolutely unacceptable. And I want to... 03/10/2025 | 10:32:56 Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Dear colleagues, First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur and Secretariat for the amazing job done. It's clear that artificial intelligence is an absolutely new, unique instrument. And as any instrument, you know, the knife in the hands of a surgeon will save the life. The knife in the hands of a criminal will kill. So, it's absolutely not about an instrument, but about how we use it. And it's time now to prepare for a future which is already knocking at... 02/10/2025 | 10:43:00 Dear President, Dear colleagues. You know I have a bad message for you. Unfortunately, everything will just worsen. And just please believe me. Because I remember very well, when just five, six, seven years ago, when Russians were still here and some of you wanted to take them back in the hemicycle, were saying, "We need dialogue with Russia. We need dialogue". I was just saying: "Dialogue doesn't work with them. No dialogue. They don't know this word. Please speak their language". No, you... 01/10/2025 | 19:21:55 Dear President, thank you very much for the possibility to speak. Dear colleagues, first of all I want to congratulate all of you with a big holiday. Today is the day of the defender of Ukraine, the day of the Ukrainian Army. And today the defender of Ukraine is the defender of the whole Europe, the defender of the civilised world. And this is the answer. Who are the real democratic forces in Russia? Who are the real Russians which deserve our respect? These are the Russians who, with... 01/10/2025 | 11:28:10 Thank you, President. Dear colleagues, All those who are in Russian captivity should be taken back for sure. But the case of journalists is especially important, because journalists are there because they were serving societies, serving all of us. And when they are in captivity, it means all of us are in captivity. We are in a Russian prison. So we need to do everything we can to liberate them as soon as possible. Russia is deliberately hunting journalists. Why? It's clear why. Because... 30/09/2025 | 17:36:40 [Speaks in Ukrainian]. I just addressed the Kazakhs in the Ukrainian language and believe me, Kazakhs will understand me! Why? Because we have a lot in common. And most importantly, both for Cossacks and for Kazakhs, freedom is the most important. Yes, Kazakhstan stands between two empires, China and Russia. And this is a very dangerous place to be. And the shadow of Sergey LAVROV's impact is lying on Kazakhstan. We know this. Yes, geography can be a curse, but it shouldn't be the sentence... 29/09/2025 | 16:53:56 Colleagues, today we started our session with a very powerful message. Here was the original of the European Convention on Human Rights. This is a real milestone in human progress in human history. But as any other document or book, it is just a paper if it's not defended, if it's not protected. So, who today is the protector of human rights in Europe? With all respect to all of us, we like to say that we are here to protect human rights in Europe, but today, human rights in Europe are... 27/06/2025 | 10:08:07 Thank you. Dear president, dear colleagues, I want to raise an issue today of several issues. The first is about reports and their unfortunately unequal distribution between political groups. We took numbers and I can tell you that this year, if we take reports, 45% of rapporteurs are representatives of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group, 24% EPP, 22% ALDE, 4% European Conservatives, Patriots and Affiliates and 2% the Unified European Left. We are an even bigger group, for example... 26/06/2025 | 18:08:18 Thank you. My dear colleagues, We are now discussing an extremely important issue – Georgia. And yesterday, here in this hall, we welcomed the President of Ukraine, Mr Volodymyr ZELENSKYY. Who spoke, who made an address. But before this, who signed the agreement about establishing a Special Tribunal? A really historical moment, a tribunal for aggression. But you know what? There are six countries from member states which did not sign this agreement. And one of these six countries is Georgia...