On Thursday 22 March, the European Parliament's sub-committee on human rights organised an exchange of views with the East StratCom Task Force (ESTF) and two non-governmental organisations involved in the respect of fundamental rights and press freedom in Russia.
Four days after the Russian presidential elections(see EUROPE 11985), the chair of the European Parliament's delegation to the EU-Russia parliamentary cooperation committee, Othmar Karas (EPP, Austria), spoke of "an electoral...