Russia severed relations with PACE
Moscow has temporarily stopped cooperation with the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and categorically refused to participate in the summer session of the Assembly. The basis of a rupture of relations was the sanctions against the Russian delegation.

Moscow has temporarily stopped cooperation with the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and categorically refused to participate in the summer session of the Assembly. The basis of a rupture of relations was the sanctions against the Russian delegation.
About the decision of the diplomats said the head of the state Duma Committee on international Affairs Alexei Pushkov. "The Russian delegation will not participate in the June session of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. We're interrupted the cooperation with the Assembly - on while trigger sanctions against our delegation. About it on may 26 was informed member of the Presidential Committee of the PACE, the Manager of the group "ibraevich" Teenie coke, when he visited Moscow and met with Chairman of the state Duma Sergei Naryshkin," said Pushkov.
The diplomat recalled that Naryshkin also sent a letter to the PACE President Anne Brasseur. "The letter is a detailed substantiation of the Russian position on the Crimea and the Ukrainian crisis, criticized the PACE's decision to deprive the Russian delegation of certain powers and tells that we do not abandon the conversation, but we reject the language of punishment, because they make cooperation unreal. Chairman of the state Duma has expressed readiness to come to Strasbourg and to play there, but only after the renewal of the mandate of the Russian delegation," said Pushkov in his interview print edition, "Izvestia".
According to the diplomat, punishment in respect Moscow will be valid until January 2015, when it will be approved again the powers of all state delegations. "And it cannot be excluded that part of the PACE will stand for the renewal of the sanctions. But we do not change our situation. We believe that the PACE took on the Ukrainian question unacceptable, absolutely one-sided position, arguing that the Kiev authorities are all right, and Russia is to blame for all the troubles of Ukraine," the politician noted.
"With all that the Kiev authorities and the ultra-nationalists forgive all - and the terrible massacre in Odessa, and shooting people in Mariupol, and implementation army against his own people. The presidential Committee of the PACE decided to play for the investigation of the global murder in Odessa only after we sent the management PACE monstrous photo burned, strangled, shot people in the House of trade unions. But it is easy to predict that the investigation conducted by the Kiev (if it will take place at all), will be one-sided and biased. And if the PACE they are satisfied, then again shows how far she left proclaim its basis," he said Pushkov.
The view was also expressed that at the last PACE session, "we are in very difficult conditions gave battle, otherwise you will not tell on Ukraine." "But it is impossible not to see that in the Assembly formed a "single front" people who do not want to know the truth and deny the obvious precedents. Their mission is to organize the process of political Inquisition against Russia and to argue with Western support for Kiev regime," said the diplomat.
Remember, in early April, PACE adopted anti-Russian resolution in connection with the annexation of Crimea to Russia and robbed by Russian parliamentarians of the right to vote, to participate in the work of the governing bodies of the Assembly and its alert missions before the end of 2014. Following this, the state Duma has gained the approval of the impossibility of recovery of conversation within the PACE, while in respect of the Russian Federation are working punishment.