The Foreign Ministry called the “double standards” of the PACE resolution “list Savchenko” – RBC

The Russian Foreign Ministry Commissioner for Human rights, democracy and the rule of law Konstantin Dolgov said that the resolution adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the introduction of sanctions “Savchenko list” shows “double standards” of the organization. This Dolgov wrote on Twitter on your page.

«And the punishment of those involved in the illegal arrest of Russian citizens and the murder of Russian journalists in Ukraine, PACE is not interested? Other priorities? Or for those parliamentarians citizens citizens strife? “- Wondered representative dipvedomstva

« Far from democracy and human rights concerns of double standards “, -.! He concluded

On Thursday. April 21, PACE adopted a resolution which calls on all member countries to impose sanctions on those that are relevant to the case of Ukrainian pilots Hope Savchenko.

at the end of March 2016, Ukraine introduced sanctions against individuals involved in the

affairs of Hope Savchenko and directed by Oleg Sentsova. In the so-called “list Savchenko” includes, in particular, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin, head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin, the Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya and leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic Igor Carpenter.

April 12 46 Lithuania has banned entry to persons who, in the opinion of Vilnius, involved in the affairs of Savchenko and Sentsova.