Statements and comments on the cooperation of the Russian Federation 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
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...
Ambassador Ivan Soltanovsky, Permanent Representative of Russia to the Council of Europe
On December 8 the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the resolution on the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by Ukraine. In...
Statement by Ambassador Ivan Soltanovsky, Permanent Representative of Russia to the Council of Europe
On December 3, the Latvian security service detained for interrogation some local Russian-speaking journalists who cooperate or cooperated in the past with on-line media Baltnews.lv and Sputnik...
Statement by Ambassador Ivan Soltanovsky, Permanent Representative of Russia to the Council of Europe on the ongoing water blockade of Crimea by Ukraine
After reunification of Crimea with Russia in 2014 the Ukrainian authorities completely cut the North Crimean canal which was the main source of freshwater for Crimea’s population numbering over 2...
Statement by Ambassador Ivan Soltanovsky, Permanent Representative of Russia to the Council of Europe
We would like to draw the attention to the publication of a thematic report “Civilian Casualties in the Conflict-Affected Regions of Eastern Ukraine” by the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine...
From answers to media questions by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a joint news conference with Foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei following the joint session of the collegiums of the Russian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries, November 26, 2020
From the briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, November 19, 2020
Statement of Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation K.A. Chuychenko at the Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Council of Europe “Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law” on the topic “Exercising the Principle of Separation of Powers in National and International Justice”
Dear colleagues, Let me thank the Council of Europe and the Ministry of Justice of the Hellenic Republic for inviting me to take part in the Conference. Charles de Montesquieu wrote...
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address to the participants of 130th Session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe held via videoconference, Athens, November 4, 2020
Madam Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr President of the Committee of Ministers, Colleagues, It is symbolic that we have met to celebrate, albeit virtually, the 70th...