German politician Andreas Maurer, head of the Die Linke party's faction in Quakenbrück's City Council, is the organizer of the trip.
Russia will not send its delegation to the January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) as no amendments have been introduced on protecting national delegations from discrimination, Deputy State Duma Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy told TASS on Thursday.
Ukrainian bloggers have noticed that one of the delegations from the Earth in French filmmaker Luc Besson's sci-fi blockbuster "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" is represented by Ukrainians.
The Ukrainian delegation at the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Fourth Committee has called on the international community to redouble its efforts to combat Russian propaganda and to respond promptly to all attacks on free media in the temporarily occupied Crimea and Donbas, according to the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations.
Head of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), State Duma MP Mikhail Emelyanov says Russia has not received an invitation to the General Assembly's session to be held in Kyiv in late 2017, which was for the first time over PABSEC's 25-year history, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe approved by majority vote a decision that aims to lift political sanctions from the Russian Federation, Europeiska Pravda reported.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during his Wednesday meeting with the U.S. Congress delegation in Kyiv urged the legislators to consider an opportunity of increasing allocations for the program of security assistance to the Ukrainian state, including the provision of defensive armaments, as well as treatment and rehabilitation of the Ukrainian servicemen, Poroshenko’s press service reports.