Matviyenko said the Russian Federation’s readiness to dialogue with the U.S. on the “law of Dima Yakovlev” – TASS

MOSCOW, January 18. /TASS/. The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said that Russia is ready to dialogue with the United States on the “law of Dima Yakovlev”, but stressed that this needs to be done “at least some steps of the United States.”

“All you can return to normal. But for him (the”law of Dima Yakovlev”) cancellation need at least some steps from the U.S.”, – said the speaker.

She noted that the law “is not an end in itself” and that “the fate of the children is the main thing.”

the Position of the Russian Federation about the decriminalization battery

Valentina Matvienko hopes that the Secretary General of the Council of Europe thorbjørn Jagland will understand the position of Russia on the decriminalization of battery.

she declared to journalists, answering the question TASS on referred to it and to the speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin letter urging them not to pass a bill.

Senator called strange and similar to the PR campaign the situation when the letter becomes the object of media attention “before it entered the official authorities”, however, she expressed willingness to consider such a request. “We look at direct response, arguing. I think that Mr. Jagland will understand and accept our position,” she said.

Matviyenko said that Jagland “was not fully informed of the steps it plans to take the Federal Assembly”. She explained that the bill on the decriminalization of battery we are talking only about the first case of violence, not caused any health effects. “We have enough in the legislation of measures, including criminal liability against the facts of domestic violence,” said the speaker, adding that the penal code contains about 60 articles, which may be imposed on perpetrators of domestic violence. “It is, in principle, corresponds to the legislation of the European States,” she said.

“If we receive such a letter, reasoned reply. I think we understand each other,” she concluded.

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As recalled in his address, the Secretary General of the COE, Russia “is obliged to respect the European social Charter, which requires parties to protect children from violence.”

“Russia is among the four Council of Europe member States which have not signed or ratified the Istanbul Convention (COE Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence). The Convention criminalizes all acts of physical, sexual or psychological violence in the family and between former or current spouses and partners,” – said the Secretary General.

Jagland stressed that physical and psychological violence against women is an extremely serious crime and a violation of their human rights, as well as domestic violence against children. “Transfer of the battery from the category of criminal offences in the administrative offense would be a clear sign of a movement back in the Russian Federation and would constitute a blow to global efforts to eradicate domestic violence”, – considers the head of the Council of Europe.