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"160 – ‘For’. Sanctions against Russia extended until April," Aryev wrote.

The resolution extending the voting ban on Russia was taken by the PACE on January 28.

After the vote on the resolution  Aleksey Pushkov, the chief of Russia’s PACE delegation and chairman of the State Duma's Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that Russia was quitting the organization for a year.

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“As PACE stripped Russia of the right to vote in its governing bodies, we can no longer speak of any contacts with the organization,” Pushkov said.

Russia was stripped of its voting rights in March last year after Russian troops invaded the Ukrainian territory of Crimea and the occupying authorities organized a sham referendum on the peninsula’s annexation by Russia.