... their work was significantly more honest and professional. The Secretariat could always be relied on to design and launch a multi-move game that would benefit Russia and other European states.
Today, it might seem that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has always been dominated by anti-Russian sentiments, and that political pressure has always been put on the Federal Assembly’s delegation. Yet this is not the case. Yes, PACE has from the outset monitored Russia’s compliance with the promises ...
It’s in Russia’s interests to do everything possible not only to retain the support of the pragmatists, but to convince the skeptics that their fears are unfounded
In a late-night debate on June 24, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg passed a resolution reforming the mechanism for applying sanctions against its member countries, and restoring the full rights of the Russian delegation, which had been curbed in 2014 over events in Ukraine. The resolution was voted ...
... general, to turn the Council into a political and legal platform for building a new Europe and Greater Eurasia without dividing lines that organically combine different mechanisms of cooperation, interaction, integration and the formation of common spaces of various configurations that do not contradict each other.
Andrey Kortunov:
What Kind of Europe Does Russia Need?
Miscalculation or lesson number 3: the disastrous consequences of Russia's unwillingness to fight for the role of the leader of the Council of Europe
As negative as the “drying out” of the CoE’s area of responsibility was the fact that Russia apparently made a strategic mistake by taking a “conciliatory” position regarding the Council and the policies pursued towards ...
