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Foreign Ministry statement on initiating the process of withdrawing from the Council of Europe
Foreign Ministry statement on the situation in the Council of Europe
Statement of the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation 1418th (Budget) meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies Programme and Budget 2022-2025
Council of Europe’s Venice Commission releases opinion on Ukrainian “transitional period” bill for Crimea and Donbass
The 50th anniversary of the Pompidou Group
Petr Tolstoy: Russia has fulfilled all the obligations undertaken when it joined the Council of Europe
The Russian Federation had fulfilled all the obligations undertaken when Russia became a member of the Council of Europe in 1996, as said Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, PACE Vice-President,...
The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation received the PACE delegation
On June 28, the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation held a meeting with the co-rapporteurs of the Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the fulfillment...
Viacheslav Volodin called the PACE resolution on Crimea biased and offensive
Earlier, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution according to which Russia should not apply its legislation in Crimea. PACE also reaffirmed “non-recognition of...
Statement by the Permanent Representation of the Russian Federation to the Council of Europe on the decision of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on human rights situation in the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol
Petr Tolstoy: Russia will not implement PACE’s politicized decisions
“I would like to remind our esteemed European colleagues that Alexei Navalny has been convicted of fraud. All attempts to present him as a political prisoner and a martyr, as they have already...
Chairman of the State Duma: PACE representatives to observe elections to the State Duma
Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin told journalists about that agreement. “I invited representatives of the PACE to observe the upcoming elections to the State Duma,” he said. ...
Russian assessment of Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights performance
It has become a long and familiar tale how we keep discussing our Western partners’ attitude toward human rights issues rather than the human rights problems themselves. We noted a statement...
Mayor of Kazan I.Metshin was re-elected Vice-Chair of the Current Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe
Speaking at a meeting of the Current Affairs Committee during the plenary session of the congress, the Mayor of Kazan voiced several important issues. One of them is the peaceful coexistence of...
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe resolution on the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by Latvia
Entry into force of the European Convention on the Abolition of the Legalisation of Documents executed by Diplomatic Agents or Consular Officers in the Russian Federation on March 9, 2021
On March 9, 2021, the European Convention on the Abolition of the Legalisation of Documents executed by Diplomatic Agents or Consular Officers, of June 7, 1968, will enter into force in the...
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas’s statements on Crimea in the Council of Europe
Letter of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S.Lavrov to Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović Burić, 28 February 2021
Statement by Ambassador Ivan Soltanovsky, Permanent Representative of Russia to the Council of Europe on persecutions of media in Ukraine
These days we witness the persecutions of the few remaining independent TV channels in Ukraine. On February 2 President Zelensky introduced sanctions against three Ukrainian TV channels, namely...
Mayor of Kazan I.Metshin spoke at the Statutory Forum of the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.
Powerful youth policies at the local level are key to ensuring the sustainability of democracies in the future. Therefore, it is necessary to invest in youth activities and create spaces where...
Welcoming speech by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Council of Europe Ivan Soltanovsky on the occasion of an online exhibition featuring this year’s winners of the Annual Andrei Stenin International Photo Contest
I am pleased to open an exhibition featuring this year’s winners of the Annual Andrei Stenin International Photo Contest. Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the exhibition is launched online this...