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Yet, debates on technology, freedom of speech, as well as the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are on the agenda.
The PACE winter session will take place in Strasbourg on January 25-28 / Photo from flickr.com/parliamentaryassembly
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has decided not to include a debate on the human rights situation in Russia-occupied Crimea in the agenda of a session scheduled for January 25-28.
That s according to the Ukrainian news portal LB.ua with reference to its own sources.
PACE winter session: What is known
The PACE winter session will take place online and in person in Strasbourg on January 25-28. The Ukrainian parliamentary delegation will participate in the event.
Shumkov s abduction and Russian captivity
The Ukrainian organization Right Sector in August 2017 reported that Shumkov, a serviceman of Chornobai military unit No. 4067, was abducted by Russian special services on the administrative border between Ukraine s Kherson region and Russia-occupied Crimea.
On August 24, 2017, a court in Russia s Bryansk region ruled to arrest Shumkov for 15 days for allegedly failing to comply with a policeman s request to provide personal belongings for examination.
In early September 2017, the Shumkov case was re-categorized. He was charged with the fact that for a long period of time he was allegedly a bodyguard of the then Right Sector leader, Dmytro Yarosh.
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The next step will be to ask international partners to introduce relevant measures against violators in line with international law.
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Since August 24, restrictions on the water supply have been introduced over to drought and shallowing of reservoirs.
Yalta authorities plan to pump surface water / Photo from UNIAN
The so-called authorities in the city of Yalta in Russia-occupied Crimea are planning to pump surface water since the water level in the Zahorske reservoir, which supplies the city, has dropped to a critical point. Water pumping from Lake Mogabi will start soon – this will give us an additional 850,000 cubic meters and will allow us to ensure its supply to three areas in Yalta s western side, Head of the Russian administration of Yalta Yanina Pavlenko wrote on Facebook, as reported by RFE/RL s Krym-Realii media project.
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