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Parliament expected to back demands for crackdown on human rights violations in Russia

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MEPs are this week expected to back a resolution which calls on the Russian authorities to “put an end to impunity” in the country.

Parliament’s non-binding resolution on the next EU-Russia agreement will be voted upon by members in Strasbourg on Thursday.

It contains several references to human rights and the rule of law, and “stresses the need for the Russian authorities to put an end to impunity in the country, as well as to politically motivated persecutions, arrests and detentions”.

The paper also “emphasises the need to cease using repressive measures against the political opposition”.

It seeks to ensure that “full light is shed on the many violations of human rights that have occurred” in Russia.

These, it says, include the imprisonment of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the deaths of Sergei Magnitsky, Alexander Litvinenko, Anna Politkovskaya, Natalya Estemirova and others.