How to strengthen the Russian civil society?
My speech at the opening of the high-level roundtable “Voices of the Anti-war Movement....
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Category: VERBATIM
IRAN: WHY SO MANY GALLOWS
Mr President, why so many gallows? Why had been 250 hangings in Iran by the beginning of the summer? Why is this military theocracy continuing to kill at such a rate? This regime is afraid.
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Bringing together the Russian opposition and the European Parliament
Opening speech Three months ago, it would have been impossible to have that many people in this...
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Mr Putin, you are accountable for the lives of Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza
Madam President, we admire the courage, we admire the heroism with which these two men, Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza defy Vladimir Putin to make the voice of the other Russia heard. But that is not the only reason why we defend them and demand their freedom.
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In Israel, as everywhere, we must support the rule of law
Intervention in the plenary session in the debate on the deterioration of democracy in Israel and consequences for the occupied territories
Dear Mr President, It is so sad that one could almost be ironic about it. Ironically, one could think that it is done in the end: Israel is finally integrated into the Middle East since what its parliamentary majority aspires to do is nothing more just to reproduce the political model of the regimes around it.
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