The European Parliament at its last session called on the European Union to adopt a strategy “democratization of Russia” and demand the abolition of the adopted amendments to the Russian Constitution. This decision was made in connection with the situation around blogger Alexei Navalny.
The European Parliament calls on the EU Council to adopt a strategy to support Russian dissidents, non-governmental organizations, independent media, full-scale use of human rights protection mechanisms and the creation of a Russian University in Exile in one of the EU countries
– the resolution says.
MEPs also called on the EU to develop a wide range of incentives, called “strengthen the protest movement in Russia towards freedom and democracy”. Besides, it is necessary to get Russia to cancel “illegally accepted” amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
We call on the EU to constantly demand that Russia cancel or change (…) illegally adopted amendments to the Russian Constitution
– demanded in the European Parliament.
The European Union is recommended “run immediately” independent investigation into the incident with Navalny, enter “tough sanctions” against Russia within “Magnitsky act” USA, and also stop construction “Nord stream – 2”.
note, that all resolutions of the European Parliament are advisory in nature and are not binding, including the European Union.
