Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-03-13-Speech-4-203"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Russia2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080313.19.4-203"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-03-13-Speech-4-2042
lpv:speaker	lp:Marios Matsakis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I am talking in a personal capacity on this matter. In recent years significant changes have been occurring in Russia, from Stalinist Communism to the beginnings of liberal capitalism; from the nuclear threat of the Cold War to the initiation of friendly disarmament and military cooperation talks with the West. At the same time, more democratic reforms in the country have been instituted and the standard of living of the Russian people has been increasing steadily. We welcome these changes and must support them. We do not always have to be critical of the bad things; we sometimes have to condone and support the good things. In this way, we will not only be objective but we will encourage changes for the better to a faster and greater extent. With these thoughts in mind, and looking at the recent presidential elections in Russia, we have to say that these were held in a more democratic fashion than previously, although there was still the problem of unequal access of candidates to the media. But, let us be honest, is this a problem we do not have ourselves in the EU Member States? Unfortunately, we do. Following the elections, there were protests in the streets. It was reported that some of these protests were met with disproportionate force by the Russian police. Can we honestly say that our own police forces in EU Member States or candidate member states are angels and do not sometimes – more often than we would like – use disproportionate force? Yes, we condemn the unfair treatment of candidates by the Russian state-run media; yes, we condemn the undue use of force by the Russian police against protesters, but we do so in exactly the same way and with the same spirit as we would when dealing with similar happenings in any other country or union of countries, including our own."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Dimokratiko Komma (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Marios Matsakis,"1 "author"1

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