The First Vice-speaker Grigory Ioffe met with the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova

In the meeting, which was held in the State Council of the Republic of Crimea took part the members of the Presidium of the Crimean Parliament Konstantin Bakharev, Lyudmila Lubina, Efim Fix, Aleksey Chernyak, Valery Kosarev, Gennady Babenko, Nikolay Kolisnichenko, Dmitry Rogachev.

Opening the meeting, Grigory Ioffe noted that in these days in Crimea take place mourning events dedicated to the Day of memory of victims of deportation. “Today all Crimeans mourn together with Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Crimean Tatars, Germans and remember those who in the period from August, 1941 to June 1944 were deported from Crimea on a national basis. We pay tribute to this tragic page in our common history and understand that this is our common pain. This suggests that the fate of all Crimeans are inextricably woven happy and tragic events, and pages of history”, - said G. Ioffe.

In turn, Ella Pamfilova said that during the visit to the Republic of Crimea, and Sevastopol she intends to study the most problematic issues faced by residents of the region and to render the maximum assistance in their solution.