Vice-speaker of the state Duma of the Russian Federation Pyotr Tolstoy
© Marat Abulhasan/photo Department of the state Duma of the Russian Federation/TASS
MOSCOW, February 22. /TASS/. Vice-speaker of the state Duma, the head of the Russian delegation to the OSCE parliamentary Assembly Peter Tolstoy called on the Assembly to respond to the radicals attack on the Russian centre of science and culture (Rossotrudnichestvo) in Kiev, and also at infringement of the rights Russian-speaking in Ukraine. With the corresponding statement he made Thursday at a meeting of the standing Committee of the OSCE PA in Vienna, the press service of the Deputy.
Tolstoy, in particular, recalled that three days ago in Kiev there was an attack on the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo. “In the presence of 50 children aggressively adjusted swells nationalists destroyed the building and burned the Russian flag,” he said.