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Standing Together for Liberal Values
My foreign liberal friends often ask me how they can help to Russian liberals and Yabloko. The answer is simple: the fight for spreading liberal values in Russia is our Russian task. Only the Russian citizens can build a law-governed state in Russia based on liberal values. But there are things we may do better together, and many issues from the CE agenda are among them.
Russia's membership in the Council of Europe - the organization based on liberal values - is of special importance for us, Russian liberals. Admission of Russia into the Council of Europe facilitated considerable progress in putting our laws in line with the key European conventions, and thousands of Russian citizens found defence in the European Court. However, our political and law enforcement practices have been demonstrating an obvious backsliding on the Council of Europe principles in the recent years. It should be also noted, that "pragmatism" and double standards sometimes take the lead in the Council of Europe too. We would like PACE to maintain its fidelity to the basic principles of the Council of Europe, and hope that monitoring over implementation of the member states' obligations as well as election observation missions would not turn into a simple formality - all this refers not only to Russia. And here we rely on the energy of the ALDE Group and its adherence to liberal values.
Alexander Shishlov,
Member of Yabloko Party Bureau,
Vice-Chairperson of ALDE group in 1996-2003
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Added on 30-06-2009
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