“Moscow will closely monitor the situation around Medvedchuk and calls on European politicians to do the same,” Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin press secretary, said on Wednesday, APA’s Moscow correspondent reports.
Russia expects the Europeans to apply their standards of free speech to stop the persecution of a person based on their political views, the Kremlin spokesman added.
Commenting on a Ukrainian proposal to swap Medvedchuk for Ukrainian captives, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Medvedchuk was a Ukrainian citizen and a foreign politician.
Source: Azeri-Press News Agency