The only candidate for the presidency of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Swiss socialist Liliane Maury Pasquier was re-elected on Monday 21 January for a second one-year term, in a context marked by Russia's delicate situation within the pan-European organisation.
This year "promises to be a difficult one", admitted Ms Maury Pasquier in her inauguration speech to a PACE which has been without a Russian delegation since 2014, whereas Russia has not ceased to...