The speaker of the Russian State Duma has said the last two years, during which Luxembourg lawmaker Anne Brasseur was president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), 'discredited' that institution.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Russian Duma head lashes out at former PACE president
Russia's State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin (L) and Luxemburg's Anne Brasseur, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe attend a press conference, on January 25, 2015, after a meeting at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France. At its April 2014 session PACE stripped the Russian delegation of the right to vote until January 2015 and excluded it from all Assemblys management bodies for Crimeas reunification with Russia. Naryshkin and Brasseur discussed the report of the resolution for one more year. (AFP PHOTO / PATRICK HERTZOG)
