Once again about the farce

International observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday will outline in a report their official position regarding the parliamentary elections held in Russia on December 2. This was announced by the first deputy chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma of the fourth convocation, Leonid Slutsky. In Paris, at a meeting of the PACE monitoring commission, the head of the observer mission, Luc Van den Brande, will make a report on the State Duma elections. Slutsky himself is planning to participate in the meeting and is already declaring that he intends to challenge the assessment of PACE experts. It is not surprising, because it is clear what they will say. Observers from the OSCE and PACE stated at a press conference on December 3 that the elections in Russia were not democratic and did not meet European standards. The current report will simply be more detailed and expanded. And it’s not even about the violations and falsifications that the Russian opposition is talking about - everything is simpler. “For the 47 countries of the Council of Europe, the situation when the current president runs for parliamentary elections is unprecedented. If the Russian Federation is a controlled democracy, then these elections were controlled,” said Luc Van den Brande.