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Agreements on the settlement of the situation in the southeast of Ukraine are working, although a definitive ceasefire may take some time, the chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, Leonid Slutsky, said. "You cannot say that the Minsk Agreements are not being implemented in the Donbas. They are working, but their implementation is stretched," he said.
Stefan Shennah, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteur for Russia’s credentials, has proposed the return of Russia’s right to vote at the PACE and limiting of its participation in monitoring missions. The organization will consider his initiative on January 28.
Leonid Slutsky, a member of the Union State Parliamentary Assembly, the head of the Duma committee for CIS affairs, Eurasian integration and contacts with compatriots, said that there is no talk about Abkhazia and South Ossetia joining Russia.
Deputy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and the Russian Federation, head of the State Duma committee for CIS affairs Leonid Slutsky, spoke about the prospects of Eurasian integration, the activity of the Parliamentary Assembly and Russian-Belarusian relations.
It has already tried out integration programs
Leonid Slutsky, the head of the State Duma Committee for the CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Contacts with Compatriots, comments on the current stage of Russian-Azerbaijani relations for Vestnik Kavkaza. The politician is sure that cooperation between the states will grow in 2015.
Russian experts believe
The State Duma could ratify the agreement on accession of Armenia to the Eurasian Economic Union by the end of the year. This was announced by the head of the Duma Committee for the CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, Leonid Slutsky.The agreement on the accession of Armenia to the EaEU was sent to the State Duma on Tuesday by Vladimir Putin. The document was signed by the presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia on October 10th in Minsk.
Russia’s lower house of parliament is expected to ratify a treaty on allied relations and strategic partnership between Russia and Abkhazia shortly after it is submitted for consideration, the head of the State Duma committee on CIS …
Leonid Slutsky, the head of the Russian Duma committee for CIS affairs, Eurasian integration and contacts with compatriots, has commented on Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s statement about a visa regime for Russia. Slutsky …
According to social polls of Gallup International, the approval rating of the idea to form the Eurasian Economic Union dropped from 67% in April 2013 to 57% in August 2014, News.am reports.The Russian Duma promised to ratify the …
The number of supporters of European integration decreases in Armenia
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the LDPR, said on Vesti 24 TV yesterday that Russian media should stop focusing on coverage of negative events abroad, especially in Ukraine, and should make more reports about positive developments in friendly countries, such as Azerbaijan. In his words, Azerbaijan was developing villages, building new complexes, including sports facilities. Zhirinovsky explained that the success of Azerbaijan was a result of its leader Ilham Aliyev and his father Heydar Aliyev.
The OSCE PA at a session in Baku has accepted Russia’s proposal to form an international working group to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, according to Leonid Slutsky, a member of the Russian delegation, the head of the Russian Duma Committee for the CIS. The Duma proposed the initiative on May 13. Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin reminded about it on June 28.
Kara Karaev as a symbol and our common memory
A law on the ratification of the Russian-Kazakh agreement on cooperation in the field of space for peaceful purposes was signed today by President Vladimir Putin.The agreement was signed in Astana on May 22, 2008 and aims to promote the creation of a legal and institutional framework for mutually beneficial cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes.
The Eurasian Union is a great problem for those who dream about a unipolar world
The Chairman of the State Duma's Committee for CIS Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, believes that the Eurasian Union may become a bridge connecting Europe and China. According to the lawmaker, the body will become one of the main centres of power in the world.
Sergey Neverov (United Russia Party), vice speaker of the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, said that the parliament will not send observers for referendums in the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts in Ukraine, Interfax reports.Leonid Slutsky, head of the Duma committee for the CIS, Eurasian integration and compatriots, said that presence of Russian lawmakers was unnecessary at the referendums. He added that the parliament will keep in touch with compatriots and the civil society of Donbass.
