26/01/2021 | 12:59:44 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) First of all, I would like to thank Mr Rapporteur for drawing attention to such an important issue. It is up to each and every national State to respect its obligations under the Convention, to protect its people and to protect the rule of law. Courts play a paramount role in this process. This is why reform of the judiciary into an independent, unbiased and unprejudiced force is so important for all countries who find themselves under the... 26/01/2021 | 10:19:41 Thank you, colleagues, I will take a few minutes to explain how the convention and the European Court of human rights are the basic instruments for guarding the European peoples against violators who are often their own respective states. We have to look at the statistics to identify the countries who are most culpable of grave breaches of Human Rights. Year in year out the Russian Federation has led this list was the greatest number of cases admitted to and decided by the European Court of... 25/01/2021 | 19:27:02 Written question I kindly ask you to comment on the plans of the Council of Europe to strengthen accountability mechanisms for violators of the Convention and Statute. Last Thursday the European Parliament called upon the Council of Europe to initiate infringement proceedings against the Russian Federation, following the violent suppression of peaceful protests around the arrest of Mr Navalniy. Despite all the violations, failure to comply with resolutions and the almost €10 million debt... 29/01/2020 | 18:50:58 It is more than two years since the outbreak of Russian aggression in Ukraine. Dear friends and colleagues, this is not the opening line of the speech. In fact it is the opening line of Resolution 2132 adopted by this Assembly in 2016. On 20th February this year it will be six years since the outbreak of that same Russian aggression in Ukraine. Since the very first resolution this house has passed back in 2014 on Russian aggression in Ukraine, Crimea remains annexed and Eastern Ukraine is...