No prerequisites for Return to the Russian Federation no death penalty, said Tuesday reporters the head of the Russian Supreme court Vyacheslav Lebedev.

"No reason to Return to Russia the highest measures of sanctions in the form of the death penalty there. No need to invent a problem that does Not happen. Return to the Russian Federation of the death penalty can't be, " said Lebedev, answering the questions of reporters.

before the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights until April, thereby extending introduced last April penalties because of the situation in Ukraine. The head of the delegation Alexei Pushkov said that the Russian Federation PACE leaves before the end of the year. According to him, at the end of the year will be to address the question of Russian membership in the Council of Europe. Russia joined the Council of Europe in 1996.

the MPs from the liberal democratic party first told that the possible withdrawal of Russia from the Council of Europe means automatic termination decisions of the European court of human rights (ECtHR) in Russia, and also gives the right to restore the death penalty in the Criminal code.

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