Speaker of the state Duma Sergei Naryshkin believes that PACE works not as democratic and as a repressive organization. About this He said, speaking at the 3rd international parliamentary forum.

in April PACE because of the situation around Ukraine and Crimea deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights, rights of participation in the statutory bodies of the Assembly and of the possibility to work in a group of election observers. In this situation, the delegation of the Russian Federation decided not to participate in the June session of PACE.

" Our delegation is deprived of the vote in the PACE - if it is not democratic, but some other organization, repressive dissent ", - Naryshkin said.

He said that on a number of Russian deputies were imposed and the so-called " personal punishment, contrary to the principles of parliamentary democracy.

according to him, now you can see the unprecedented attempts to limit freedom of information, but also the parliamentary dialogue.

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