Germany "bored" without the Russian Federation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. This was told by the head of the permanent delegation of Ukraine in the PACE Vladimir Ariev. He said that he spent only a few days in the German capital.. He did not lose time for nothing: he talked with colleagues from the Bundestag, including heads of committees on EU and human rights issues, as well as heads of other delegations in the assembly. "We discussed the situation in the PACE and the Council of Europe as a whole. The Germans believe that the Russian Federation should be returned to the PACE, but they doubt whether it will cost you any price.. That is, everything is complicated, but not hopeless, "Aryev reported on Facebook. PACE quarreled with Moscow in 2014–2015 because of the position of Russian parliamentarians in the Crimea.

As a punishment, the organization nullified their rights in the work of the Assembly.. However, contributions regularly accepted. A year ago, the Russian Federation for the first time deprived the PACE of a contribution. Last week, Russia threatened the Council of Europe with the dismissal of its own accord. The only thing that can keep our country in its composition is the observance of the full list of the rights of national delegations, said the speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matvienko.