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"en.20120911.40.2-627-000"2
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"Mr President, the Russian justice system, which should be independent, has become an efficient tool for the authorities to strike at the opposition with drastic sentencing, sending them to isolated Siberian prisons or to fudge inconvenient matters, leaving them unresolved for years. 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. There are very worrying reports about the Russian organisation ‘Golos’, which monitors elections. A court in Moscow imposed a fine of RUB 30 000 on this organisation. Also worrying is the proposal 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 the light of these events, the fundamental question arises: how has the European External Action Service responded to the abovementioned instances, which are illegal and detrimental for the rule of law? In the context of these events, the conviction of the members of Pussy Riot, whose vulgar performance also offended thousands of Christians around the world, can only be judged from the point of view of severity rather than whether the penalty was justified. One cannot base arguments concerning the failure of the rule of law and the totalitarian nature of the Kremlin regime on this particular judgment."@en1
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