None.
I would like to thank Masu Gaeta for making a
very,
very important remark about not
putting
the sign of equation between a country and the regime
that has usurped
power in this country and is oppressing its own population
while carrying out wars of aggression against our neighbours.
This is something. That's my husband Vladimir Carmuza,
whose work I continue while he's unable to do that,
has been saying for years,
Please do not equate Vladimir Putin's government with the entire
country.
Please do not see the
the, the diversity of our country.
Please see the faces of those people who are fighting
for a better future.
Please show solidarity with those who risk their freedoms and
very often their lives.
And yet again we saw the proof of that
They risk that everything they have
to show the you that a different Russia is possible
and that you can.
That you can step over your fears somehow.
That you can.
These people show us that there is something bigger
than their fears, something bigger than life itself.
Please stand with them and show solidarity with them,
because the only guarantee of peace and stability on this
continent
it is a democratic Russia.
There is no other way.
For as long as there is some kind of a
regime
in Russia, warmongering will continue and repression will continue and
no one will ever feel safe on this continent.
We are fighting for a democratic Russia that will be
living peacefully with its own citizens,
respecting the rights of its own citizens and respecting the
rights of its neighbours,
stand in solidarity with us.
Help us achieve this goal
so that we can achieve that long lasting peace.
And Mr. Milov, for two minutes,
thank you very much and thank you for all your
warm,
warm words of solidarity. We know that these are more
than more than just words and
you, the European Union, the European Parliament,
have done so much already to counter Putin's regime and
its aggression against Ukraine.
But we clearly see in the light of
the recent events in the murder of Alexei Navalny that
more needs to be done.
And I wanted to convey after Navalny was murdered,
I literally received like 10s of thousands of messages from
people across Russia
who really want to see solidarity from the free world
and first and foremost,
Europe, free and democratic Europe.
Solidarity with those Russians who don't want dictatorship,
who don't want oppression, they don't want war.
And there are many of those.
You've seen people laying flowers.
You also have seen huge lines and queues in support
of the presidential candidate Boris Naderjian,
who was not allowed to run.
That was the only candidate who promoted the message to
end the war,
people lining up to support him.
There were no lines to be drafted to fight in
Ukraine inside Putin's army.
Putin has to hunt for draftees,
but to end the war,
people are lining up. They really want to hear that
message of solidarity,
and they want to see strong and tough action
on part of the European Union
to give Putin a clear signal that he won't get
away with what he's doing.
And with the murder of Navalny,
it's pretty clear we already have been saying what needs
to be done.
We just hope for your action and that the words
of solidarity will transform into something specific.
And we're always here to help and provide you best
advice on what exactly needs to be done.
Thank you.
Thank you. Mr. Volkov, are you still connected?
And I give the floor to you now.
Thanks a lot for your interventions and for the respect
for novelness,
Fork and legacy. We on our side,
his friends, his team, will do whatever possible to
make his legacy leave to work,
Navalny always said.
You don't have to be
devastated. You don't have to be.
You don't have to stop working.
Everyone has to do something every day.
Not maybe something huge, but nothing is not an option
and we will continue to leave and fork
by this principle.
Vladimir already mentioned one important part of not only this
political legacy,
which is the
known against Putin political campaign in Russia,
brave people all across the country
will
come to Poland, places of the fake presidential election.
Not to vote, not to pick one of the mock
candidates in the fake election,
but to
present themselves to show that they exist.
While the propaganda
pretends to
make a point that they just don't exist,
they're a marginal minority that everyone supports Putin.
These people will take risks.
There will be a lot of
attempts to embarrass them, to scare them off.
Probably we will see stories about,
you know,
offices of conscription officers responsible for conscriptions coming to this
polling station and
handing, you know, draft letters to young
men
just coming to the election.
And still people will show up and they will show
taking huge risks.
One important thing that Putin is not Russia and Russia
is not Putin.
So what we ask for is respect for this
idea, which was Alexei Navalny's probably main political idea,
is that Russia can be a decent,
normal European country, that Russians are
not different from Europeans, despite everything that Putin is trying,
trying to prove.
And Mr. Volkov, may I ask you to conclude?
Yeah. And this idea has very simple consequences.
Don't recognize Putin as Russia's legitimate president or representative.
Help Russians who are fighting against him both inside the
country and abroad.
That's it. Thank you,
Miss Karamuza. Mr. Milov. Mr.
Volkov, thank you so much for attending today's joint meeting
of the Foreign Affairs Committee and our Subcommittee on Human
Rights.
Since we're running late, let me just say that we
will continue to support the Russian opposition in its fight
for justice,
freedom and peace. And we will continue to urge Russia
to immediately and unconditionally release all political prisoners
among some of the names we have been
listening to have been mentioned today.
So, colleagues, we will continue monitoring the situation in Russia
in the coming weeks and months closely.
And I will now conclude this item.
Thank you once again for attending our session.