A senior Russian lawmaker has censured the sanctions imposed by the United States on Russian legislators as illegitimate and blatant violations of international law.
The bans “grossly violate international law, the principles of democracy and freedom of speech,” Valentina Matviyenko, the speaker of the Russian Federation Council (upper house of parliament), said in a Monday video address to the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in New York.
Matviyenko, who has been targeted by the US sanctions since Crimea’s unification with Russia last year, was scheduled to participate in the international conference of parliamentary speakers and also attend meetings at …read more
Source: Iran English Radio
