The decision to suspend the voting rights of the Russian delegation to PACE was adopted on 10 April 2014 in reaction to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine (the annexation of Crimea and the military operations in eastern Ukraine). Russian officials were also denied the right to assume leadership positions in the PACE, and were prevented from taking part in the organisation’s monitoring missions.
In retaliation, the Russian delegation stopped participating in the Assembly’s work as of 2016, and from 2017 it ceased to pay its annual membership fees (€33 million annually, in Russia’s case).
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