Interaction with the PACE unproductive and unacceptable for the Russian Federation, said Last news the Federation Council speaker Valentina Matvienko.

"The PACE was on the path support the continuing bloodshed in Ukraine, counter reaching a political settlement to the conflict situation, for this reason, the interaction with this organization, in addition to discriminatory basis, unproductive and unacceptable to us," said she.

on Wednesday, the PACE has deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights until April, thereby extending introduced last April punishment. The Assembly also called on the Russian Federation to withdraw all its troops from Ukraine and " to refrain from supplying weapons to the militias ", "without delay to adopt strong measures against the influx of Russian volunteers to participate in the conflict in the East of Ukraine" and demanded from Russia to release Savchenko within 24 hours or give it to a third party.

As complicated Relations of the Russian capital and PACE

Relations between Russia and the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have cooled in April 2014 after the adoption of the PACE of the decision to deprive the Russian delegation's voting rights, rights to participate in the meeting of statutory bodies and participation in monitoring activities of Assembly due to the position of the capital of Russia in the Crimea. The Russian delegation left the meeting room to restore power. Read more about deprive Russia of the right to vote in PACE

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