Commenting on today's constitutional meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Eastern Partnership EURONEST, Green MEP Werner Schulz said, that it was the right decision not to invite parliamentarians that were chosen in unfair elections and that support a ruthless despot as President. As long as massive repression continues, Belarus should stay out of EURONEST.

On 28 March 2011, it finally happened: about sixty representatives from Russian and European non-governmental organizations, meeting in Prague, voted to found a civil society forum for the EU and Russia. A viable pilot project deserving of support, because our partner for as sustainable and successful cooperation ist Russian civil society.

In April of this year we invited a group of Young Russian and Belarussian Leaders visiting Brussels, getting to know the European Parlament and the work of a deduty. They passed through a really ambitious programm. Anton Barbaschin, one of the participants, wrote down his experiences.

The European Court of Human Rights yesterday ruled that the dissolution of the Republican Party in Russia by the Russian justice ministry in 2007 was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. It underlines (1). A long overdue and important decision for fair elections in Russia.