Christina Luna Rodriguez. The situation around the Russian delegation was one of the Central themes of the closing on the last working day of the week of the spring session of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). at the end of January this year, the PACE adopted a resolution, which until April had deprived the Russian delegation of a number of important powers, and voting rights. In response to This, the delegation of Russia until the end of 2015 left the Assembly. at the meeting of the authorized body of the PACE Bureau adopted a conclusion on postponing the discussion of the Russian delegation at the June session in connection with the fact that from January 2015 nothing, in the opinion of the Assembly, the Russian party of the requirements of the decision was not fulfilled. The Russian side was parried on to the PACE resolution on the same day. The speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin has shown that, in his view, Russia will resume its work in the Assembly, if it shall have all rights, most importantly the right to vote. The Assembly itself until not decided what to do with the credentials of the delegation of the Russian Federation further. One part believes that if the Russian side does not fulfill the requirements, Then She has the option to be excluded from the PACE in June, and a decision will be valid until the new January session of 2016. Another believes that the question of competence should generally be deferred at the January session, as long as the Russian delegation will not return. Then, in their vision, it will be possible to start a dialogue and to pursue the implementation of the provisions of the decision. along with this, despite the lack of the Russian delegation to the current session, the theme of Russia, nevertheless, was raised in most discussions of the Assembly. In the early hours of the spring session in the framework of the ordinary report on the operations of the PACE Bureau, three of the five commissioners of the major political factions of the Assembly remembered the range of possibilities of the Russian delegation. in the process of discussing the humanitarian consequences of the activities of terrorist group Islamic state (IG) Commissioner of Ukraine reminded the support of the Moscow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. in the debate on the political situation in Ukraine MPs have accused Moscow of supplying weapons to the volunteers in the Donbass and in violation of the Minsk agreements. The same pattern was repeated during the presentation of the Council of Europe's Commissioner for human rights Nils Muiznieks his overview of the report. First, the deputies asked when He would go to the Crimea, then asked whether He wishes to impose any of the punishment relative to Russia, if he was in the Crimea not to come out, and demanded to take under observation the circumstances with the case of the Ukrainian pilots Hope Savchenko. The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The West has been charged Russia of meddling in Ukraine's Affairs. Moscow has repeatedly stated that it was not involved in the events in southeastern Ukraine, is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis. In the capital of Russia noted that all charges against her on as if the interference in the Ukrainian crisis unproven. The head of the PACE Anne Brasseur in a conversation Last news admitted that after the withdrawal of Russia from the Assembly raised a number of difficulties, for example, with the arrival in the Crimea. The Rapporteur for the Russian authority and, concurrently, the Creator of the January decision, the Austrian Stefan Shan in conversation Last news spoke against the idea of boycott. Along with this, He showed that " will not be a surprise if in June we learn that the citizens of Russia will not come this year ". Answering the question about what plans to do the PACE, when the Russian delegation will not be, the Chairman of the monitoring division of the Assembly Ing showed that " no one wants Russia a major European country ". He was not able to answer the question, what topics are plans to discuss the Assembly in the lack of delegation of the Russian Federation. otherwise have Ukrainian deputies. So, the people's Deputy Alexey Goncharenko on the same question responded to the Agency that " you slightly exaggerate the role of Russia in the agenda of the Council of Europe." It's important, but there are plenty of issues that can be discussed, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Belarus we wish again to start interacting with the Council of Europe, Kazakhstan, has appointed a new Rapporteur, Morocco, the countries of former Yugoslavia, there is a lot of problems. In recent years a greater role was given to the matter of the Gypsies, transgender, LGBT, rights of the child, and everything to do with human rights ", - He said pointing. Relations between Russia and the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have cooled in April 2014 after the adoption of the PACE decision to deprive the Russian delegation of voting rights, the right to participate in the meeting of statutory bodies and participation in monitoring activities of the Assembly because of the position of the capital of Russia in the Crimea. The Russian delegation left the meeting room to restore power. Read more about depriving Russia of voting rights in PACE - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is the oldest in the European Union international parliamentary institution, has been operating since 1949. This is one of 2 major statutory bodies of the Council of Europe, It is the desire of the main political parties existing in the member States of the organization. The Assembly shall deal with matters relating to the issues of modern society and different aspects of international politics. In the Assembly with the right to vote includes delegations from 47 countries. Hold observer status, Israel, Canada, Mexico. Read More