Russia announced the severance of relations with PACE

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Russia announced the severance of relations with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the refusal to participate in the June session of the organization.
According to the head of the Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs Alexei Pushkov, our country will not participate in PACE until sanctions are against it - until the end of 2014. Pushkov noted that in conditions when Russia denied the right to vote, to continue cooperation has not the slightest sense. PACE President Anne Brasseur already informed of the decision of Russian parliamentarians.