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"Today, we voted on a very important resolution. Russia has long been struggling with poor law enforcement. The justice system, which should be independent, has become an efficient tool for the authorities to strike at the opposition, meting out drastic sentences to isolated Siberian prisons, or else to fudge inconvenient matters, leaving them unresolved for years.
One does not have to dig deep to find examples. The Russian police and prosecution service still have not been able to find and try the killers of Anna Politkovskaya or Natalia Estemirova, for example. The sixth anniversary of the death of the first of these falls on 6 October. Similarly, there is very worrying news about the Russian organisation ‘Golos’, which monitors elections. A court in Moscow imposed a fine of RUB 30 000 on this organisation for creating a negative image of one of the parties. In addition, formal restrictions were placed on travel around Russia and collaborators were arrested.
Also worrying is the information about changes to Russian law. I would like to remind you that, in 2011, a proposal was put forward, according to which the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation is to gain the right to block implementation of decisions by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. In the light of these events, there is a fundamental question: how has the European External Action Service responded to the abovementioned instances, which are illegal and detrimental for the rule of law?"@en1
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