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Russian delegation to take part in the PACE spring session remotely

The head of the Russian delegation to PACE, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy explained that such decision was taken due to the current epidemiological situation in France and the Address of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly which would be held on April 21

Petr Tolstoy: it is necessary to ensure sovereignty and rights of citizens of the Russian Federation

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma is convinced that it is necessary not to bend just to avoid discussions

Petr Tolstoy: double standards undermine the PACE credibility

Members of the Russian delegation to PACE, headed by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy, held a meeting with the President of the Assembly Rik Daems. Russian parliamentarians drew attention to the inadmissibility of the use of double standards

Petr Tolstoy re-elected PACE Vice-President

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin told parliamentary journalists about that. He added that an attempt to organize debate on Navalny case at PACE had failed

Members of the State Duma met with Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović Burić

Issues related to the recent amendments to the Russian Constitution and issues of protection of the rights of the Russian-speaking people in the Baltic states and Ukraine were discussed at the meeting. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy also proposed to prepare a joint statement on countering COVID-19

Petr Tolstoy: level of protection of religious rights and rights of national minorities in Russia is much higher than the standards of the Council of Europe

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, PACE Vice-President and head of the Russian delegation to the Assembly said that the practice of double standards could lead to a new crisis between Russia and the Council of Europe

Petr Tolstoy urged PACE members to cooperate in investigation of the incident with Alexey Navalny

The parliamentarian is also concerned that "the bodies of the Council of Europe descend into rumors discussions”, setting aside not only the rules of procedure, but also the reputation

Petr Tolstoy hopes that PACE will resume work in the usual format in autumn

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, head of the Russian delegation to PACE and Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Petr Tolstoy announced that, summarizing the results of the spring plenary session of the State Duma. The parliamentarian also recalled that the PACE summer session, planned to be held on June 22-26, was canceled due to coronavirus pandemic

The State Duma Commission revealed facts of foreign interference in the voting on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation

According to the Chairman of the Commission Vasilii Piskarev, in particular, the Commission received information on the increased foreign funding of Russian non-profit organizations by 20%, and that may be indicators of attempts to disrupt the Russian national vote

The State Duma Commission to discuss information on attempts of foreign interference in voting on constitutional amendments

According to the Chairman of the Commission of the State Duma on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs Vasilii Piskarev, a meeting to discuss that issue will be held very soon. Earlier, the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy sent the relevant appeal to the Commission

Russian delegation presented to the CSTO members a Declaration on the inadmissibility of revision of the results of World War II

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy announced that at the meeting of the heads of delegations of the CSTO member-states. "In our opinion, attempts to rewrite history are unacceptable, it is inappropriate to rewrite the results of the war after 75 years passed," he said

Russian delegation to PACE opposed the resolution regulating the restriction of rights of national delegations

The Russian delegation to PACE issued a statement related to the adoption of the resolution “Complementary joint procedure between the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly in response to a serious violation by a member State of its statutory obligations”

PACE ratified the credentials of the Russian delegation

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ratified the credentials of the Russian delegation in full. After returning to PACE, Russia implemented a number of recommendations, the organization’s Monitoring Committee confirmed earlier

Petr Tolstoy elected PACE Vice-President

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma heads the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Russian delegation in PACE will raise the issue of clarifying the mechanism for depriving delegations of their credentials

According to Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy and Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy, delegates from Russia will raise the issue of increasing the quorum for taking reactive measures to countries violating the principles of the Council of Europe

Parliamentarians called WADA’s decision “a way to force Russian competitors out of the global sport”

Members of the State Duma commented on the decision of the Executive Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency to ban Russian officials, representatives of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) from attending the Olympic and Paralympic Games for four years

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma commented on the disruption of a speech of a Crimean deputy in the UN by Ukraine

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy called the actions of the Ukrainian delegation hooligan antics, and Deputy Chairwoman of the Committee on International Affairs Natalia Poklonskaia said that something unimaginable happened during his speech

Petr Tolstoy: attempts to rewrite history should not be tolerated

This was stated by the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma at the International Youth Conference “World War II: the Truth for Peace”, held in the State Duma

Parliamentarians met with Deutsche Welle CEO

Representatives of all factions of the State Duma took part in an informal meeting with Peter Limbourg

Petr Tolstoy: we presented the facts, I hope we have been heard

The members of the Russian delegation during the debate at PACE on the recent protests in Moscow cited facts that the assembly members, who were speaking so emotionally against the "repression in Russia", as it turned out, simply did not know about. The head of the delegation, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy told that following the meeting