22/06/2021 | 12:50:59 Thank you. Does anyone object? If so, please ask for the floor by raising your hand in the hemicycle for those who are present, or via the remote system. Are there any objections? I cannot see any objections. As there is no objection, I declare that Amendments 1, 2, 3 and 5 to the draft resolution have been agreed. I have received an oral amendment from the rapporteur Mr Damien COTTIER which reads as follows "in Paragraph 13 3.1 replace the words ‘ability to pay’ with the words 'ability to... 22/06/2021 | 12:50:01 Thank you. Dear colleagues, the debate is closed. The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights has presented a draft resolution to which five amendments have been tabled. There is also an oral amendment. The amendments will be taken in the order in which they appear in the compendium. I remind you that speeches on amendments are limited to one minute. I ask parliamentarians participating remotely to ask for the floor only when they have to support their own amendment or wish to speak... 22/06/2021 | 12:43:42 Thank you. I must now interrupt the list of speakers. The speeches of members on the speakers list who have been present physically or remotely during the debate, but haven't been able to speak may be given to the table office for publication in the official report, provided that speakers connected remotely can report their actual presence when the debate is closed. I remind colleagues that typewritten text must be submitted electronically, no later than 4 hours after the list of speakers is... 22/06/2021 | 11:26:49 Thank you. Does anyone wish to speak against the amendment? I cannot see such a person. So the Committee unanimously accepted the amendment. I shall now put the amendment to the vote. Members present in the Chamber should use the hemicycle voting system. Members participating remotely should vote using the remote voting system. The vote in the Hemicycle and by remote voting is now open. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. Amendment 1 is agreed to. We will now proceed to... 21/06/2021 | 18:39:55 Dear colleagues, first of all I would like to congratulate the rapporteur for having prepared such an important and interesting report raising serious issues of political and public life. As a matter of principle, the politicians should be guaranteed freedom of speech and expression in the course of implementing their political mandate. Without this freedom they would be unable to adequately express their own political views as well as convey the views of their constituencies. Let me quote... 22/04/2021 | 10:56:19 Dear Colleagues, The life of Alexei Navalny hangs by a thread. Can we really save his life from imminent death? We all know perfectly well that now Alexei is at the hands of the same people who had tried to poison him. We also know who is a primary decision-maker when it comes to a decision on whether Alexei will live or die. This person is Russian President Mr Putin. Let's have no illusions that there isn't any rule-of-law state in Russia. There is no rule of law in Russia. There Is only... 20/04/2021 | 12:02:53 Thank you. Thank you Mr President. Talking about strategic priorities of the Council of Europe we should take into consideration two important factors, two important things. First of all, real, not abstract, problems we face. Second, concrete solutions to these problems. What are these problems? I'll take a risk to single them out. First of all, no implementation by some member states of the decisions given by the European Court of Human Rights. What can be the solution to this acute problem... 28/01/2021 | 09:31:09 Thank you, Mister President, Dear Colleagues, A year ago when the decision, a mistaken one of course, was taken to let the Russian delegation back to PACE, it was expected that there would be some progress on the part of Russia, that Russia would change its ways and its attitude towards human rights. Now, a year after, we ask ourselves: where is the progress? The answer is, there is no progress. On the contrary, the situation with human rights in Russia has considerably deteriorated. In the... 27/01/2021 | 17:07:24 Madam Chair, Dear Colleagues. Alexei Navalny's case is not only about a concrete person. It is rather about basic values and principles of our organization which is supposed to defend human rights and which strives to establish rule of law. Therefore, demanding the immediate release of Alexei Navalny and his supporters, we defend human rights values and principles of the Council of Europe. But let's take a closer look at the Navalny case and try to understand its true meaning. Isn't it truly... 26/01/2021 | 09:45:30 Thank you, Mr Chairman. Dear colleagues, the key question regarding the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights is how to guarantee efficient implementation of the judgments. How to make them real, in the sense of the influence upon behavior of human beings, people. To answer this crucial question we need to understand that legal phenomena exist in the minds of human beings. The judgments, just like laws themselves, motivate a certain conduct of people. From this...