"We have frozen the payment transactions," Volodin said, recalling that both Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had earlier spoken about the plan.
"During the year the funding is allocated in stages, and one third of the sum left for the year-end is not transferred, and that’s almost 11 million euros," TASS cited Volodin as saying.
Russia cuts its contribution to PACE by €11 mln
06 June 2017
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Russia has cut its contribution to the Council of Europe donated to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) by one third or 11 million euros, Russia's State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said.
