“There will be no practical consequences”: Russia reacted to the resolution of the European Parliament on the “country sponsor of terrorism”

In Russia, they reacted to the resolution adopted by the majority of deputies of the European Parliament recognizing Russia as a "sponsor of terrorism".

In response, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, proposed to recognize the European Parliament as a "sponsor of idiocy."

The resolution recognizing Russia as a “country sponsor of terrorism” was supported by 494 MPs, 58 MPs opposed, and 44 abstained.

At the same time, the resolution is advisory in nature, its approval does not have legal consequences for Russia.

The authors of the document claim that Russia, among other things, has committed a number of “documented war crimes” in Ukraine.

The initiators of recognizing Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism” propose to strengthen the isolation of the Russian Federation and develop a set of restrictive measures against it, which will also provide for sanctions for third countries for interacting with Moscow.

Meanwhile, US Ambassador-at-Large Beth Van Shack said earlier that Russia does not meet Washington's definition of a "state sponsor of terrorism."

According to her, American legislation in this matter differs from European and Russia definitely does not fall under the criteria of the United States.

Former Russian envoy to the EU, first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Vladimir Chizhov called the anti-Russian resolution of the European Parliament stupid and conducive to escalating tension.

According to Chizhov, the adoption of the document was caused by the attempts of European parliamentarians "to present themselves as guardians of the Western liberal order."

“There will be no practical consequences, except for noise for the purpose of PR and regular outbursts of emotions, I believe.

At least, neither the executive structures of the European Union, nor even the EU member states are formally obliged to do so.

By tradition, they supposedly listen.

But sometimes the European Parliament will reward this!”

- RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

In turn, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Viktor Vodolatsky noted that the decisions of the European Parliament are often pretentious and provocative, aimed only at inciting hatred between states.

“The European Parliament is one of the executors of the roadmap for Russophobic policy, which is being implemented by many European states today.

Naturally, at the direction of the owner from across the ocean, ”the deputy said in an interview with RT.

According to him, the EP in its current version does not protect the interests of its members, since the countries that make up the European Union, according to the parliamentarian, have already lost their independence.

In turn, Adalbi Shkhagoshev, a member of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, believes that the decision on the EP resolution was taken to divert attention from the investigation into the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines and the massacre of Russian prisoners of war.

“Right now they decided to throw out a similar solution to divert attention.

This is an absolutely non-binding decision,” Shkhagoshev believes.

The EP resolution “serves as a smoke screen” for the rehabilitation of war crimes of the Zelensky regime, believes Leonid Slutsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.

“They took it in Strasbourg in a hurry - right after a wave of publications about the execution of unarmed Russian prisoners of war swept through all Western media,” Slutsky wrote on Telegram.

Recall, on November 18, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Ukrainian military deliberately and methodically killed more than ten Russian prisoners of war with shots in the head.

A video of the incident was later posted online.

According to Slutsky, the document adopted by the EP has no legal force.

The only task of the resolution, according to the parliamentarian, is to keep the degree of demonization of Russia.

In this regard, the head of the Liberal Democratic Party recalled that the European Parliament acts as a political sponsor of the current Ukrainian state, while Russia continues to fight international terrorists, "without dividing them into moderate or immoderate, as the West recently liked to do."