Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (D-RU) exchange views on the death of 2021 Sakharov Price Laureate Alexei Navalny and on the state of the Russian opposition ahead of the presidential elections. Opening statements by David MCALLISTER, (EPP, DE) chair of AFET (Committee on Foreign Affairs), Leonid VOLKOV, Chief of staff of Alexei Navalny, Anti-Corruption Foundation (remotely), Evgenia KARA-MURZA, Advocacy Director at the Free Russia Foundation, wife of political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza, and Vladimir MILOV, Vice-President of the Free Russia Foundation, former Vice-Minister of Energy of Russia. Followed by a questions and answers session by MEPs. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Committee on Foreign Affairs

Brussels

meeting

Subcommittee on Human Rights

EU - Russia (T)

respect for human rights in the world (T)

McALLISTER, David (EPP, DE)

NAVALNY, Alexei (RU)

MILOV, Vladimir (RU)

Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought 2021 (T)

VOLKOV, Leonid

Exchange of views on the death of Sakharov Price Laureate Alexei Navalny and on the state of the Russian opposition ahead of the presidential elections: opening statements