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RUSSIA·DEATH PENALTY·APRIL 22, 2002·1 MIN READ

Russia is ready to join the convention on the abolition...

Russia is ready to join the convention on the abolition of the death penalty, Federation Council speaker Sergey Mironov said in Strasbourg taking part in a PACE [Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe] session

Russia is ready to join the convention on the abolition of the death penalty, Federation Council speaker Sergey Mironov said in Strasbourg taking part in a PACE [Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe] session.
Mironov will give a report on Russia's compliance with the CE admission obligations.
"The death penalty is inadmissible. It is more necessary to make punishment inevitable," Mironov told journalists.
— SOURCES
  • (Sources: ITAR-TASS news agency, 22/04/2002)