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"The people of Russia want the right to cast their vote freely in fair elections and feel that they themselves are deciding their country’s future. The European Union wants to develop a strategic partnership with a safe and stable country that respects fundamental rights and freedoms and the sovereignty of its neighbours. We ourselves have to recognise that, in its relations with the EU, Russia is moving forward selectively – things that help economic development are accepted, whereas concern over democracy and human rights violations are simply rejected. We can seek Russia’s friendship but how far are we ready to go to get it? It is hard to imagine the lifting of visa requirements with a country whose state structures protect people who are guilty of crimes against humanity, such as the case of Mikhail Golovatov, while Russia refuses to cooperate in such categories of cases as 13 January and the Medininkai killings, while there is a lack of substantial progress in the case of Sergei Magnitsky and while Mikhail Khodorkovsky is imprisoned. The stirrings of the people of Russia following the State Duma elections are not just a signal to the Tandemocracy in Russia but also to us, showing that civil society in the country is alive, that people know their rights and are ready to demand them. We cannot disappoint the democratically minded part of Russian society."@en1
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