Head of the state Duma on international Affairs Alexei Pushkov said about the preparation of the request to the Council of Europe on the issue of entering the Russian correspondents in the sanctions list in Ukraine.

"We are preparing a request to the Council of Europe. There are bound to admit that ukrecently against Russian correspondents violate the principles of the COE, freedom of expression and information, " wrote the people's Deputy in his own microblog on Twitter.

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