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\"The efforts of the global community should be concentrated on the immediate stopping of bloodshed and murders. The Syrian government and the opposition should be sat at the negotiating table to establish dialogue and elaborate the agenda of Syrian future,\" [Valentina Matviyenko] told journalists in St Petersburg today.

[Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko was received on Friday [17 May] at the capital's Hotel Nacional de Cuba by Esteban Laz, by members of the Politburo of the Cuban Communist Party and president of the National Assembly of the People's Power (ANPP).

\"With the appropriate government of Georgia\", disputable issues can always be solved; mutually beneficial and partner relations can be developed without political tension and \"various radical decisions\", she said.

\"All additions and changes to this document should be carefully considered and factored in as much as possible in the final draft. And it is important that socially-oriented NGOs do not fall within the scope of the law,\" [Valentina Matviyenko] told Interfax on Wednesday [11 July]. She added that after speaking to Russian rights activists the day before, the head of state [Vladimir Putin] also acknowledged that the bill needed further work.

\"There are no reasons for a revolution, there are no revolutionary sentiments in society. There is a need for dialogue, the people who are expressing their opinions need to be heard,\" [Valentina Matviyenko] told the Interfax news agency on Thursday [26 January]. In Matviyenko's words, those who take part in protests should also demonstrate readiness for dialogue with the authorities \"to come to an appropriate solution that will enable the successful and effective development of our country - everyone is interested in this, no one is interested in rocking the boat\".

\"The essence of Russia's position lies in the impermissibility of driving North Korea into a corner. Everything should be done to take North Korea out of international isolation, show to it advantages of a dialogue with the international community,\" [Valentina Matviyenko] said, answering questions from Russian and Japanese journalists.

\"It is necessary to think about it thoroughly; I think that next year the electivity of Federation Council members can be fulfilled,\" [Valentina Matviyenko] told journalists. Regions should know how their representatives are working in the chamber, how active they are and what bills they have initiated. \"The work of the Federation Council will be as open as possible. Russia should know its senators and it [the Council] should enjoy as much authority as [the Senate is] in America,\" she said.

Moscow, 24 June: The chairman of the One Russia Supreme Council and speaker of the State Duma, Boris Gryzlov, has said that the party has every legal basis and opportunity to ensure that St Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko is put forward as a senator to...

St Petersburg, 12 October: Police have detained 45 protesters outside the fence of St Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko's dacha in Komarovo (Kurortnyy District).

\"They are only threatening us with sanctions so far, but there is understanding in Europe that sanctions are a boomerang and, naturally, Russia will respond reciprocally and that will only aggravate the general economic situation and will, above all, affect people's lives. However, we are not afraid of any sanctions, they will only mobilize us, mobilize the country, we shall overcome this,\" [Valentina Matviyenko] said.