Strasbourg, 05.09.2012 – The engagement and the mobilisation of more than 100,000 citizens following the December 2011 elections, the awakening of a very engaged civil society and the willingness of the authorities to hear the call for reforms have created in the Russian Federation “a momentum for change” and to realise this unique political potential, “Russian society needs concrete reforms”, the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) said at the end of its meeting in Paris.

The adopted draft resolution, based on a report prepared by György Frunda (Romania, EPP/CD) and Andreas Gross (Switzerland, SOC) which covers the honouring of obligations and commitments by the Russian Federation over the last seven years, welcomes “very positive” steps, such as amendments to the law on political parties, changes in the electoral law and the re-introduction of direct elections of governors. (more...)

Adopted draft resolution (PDF)
Monitoring Committee to examine report on honouring of obligations and commitments by the Russian Federation  

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