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Foreign Ministry statement on initiating the process of withdrawing from the Council of Europe

EU and NATO countries have abused their majority in the Council of Europe (CE) to steadily transform this organisation into an anti-Russia policy tool, while rejecting dialogue on equal terms and...

Foreign Ministry statement on the situation in the Council of Europe

The EU and NATO states, which are unfriendly to Russia, are using their absolute majority in the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers to continue the destruction of the Council of Europe...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas’s statements on Crimea in the Council of Europe

From the briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 4, 2021 Germany has also given us an excuse to comment, but unfortunately not on the positive aspects of our...

Council of Europe’s Venice Commission releases opinion on Ukrainian “transitional period” bill for Crimea and Donbass

Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, October 28, 2021 The developments around the Ukrainian draft law On the Foundations of State Policy for the Transitional...

The 50th anniversary of the Pompidou Group

Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, October 28, 2021 On October 28, the Council of Europe’s Pompidou Group for international cooperation on drug policy and...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From the briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, November 19, 2020

Creating an Observatory on History Teaching in Europe at the Council of Europe On November 12, 2020, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers adopted a resolution establishing a new...

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...