grigory karasen, who heads the committee of the federation council on international affairs when choosing vasilyevicho vera so we are summing up the results of the work of the soviet federation spring session. what was she like for the committee that you head and what can you highlight in particular? well, uh, first of all, the session was unusual in the sense that we, as a country, were under such a frontal sanctions attack and it was about maintaining constructiveness, maintaining ties, working towards developing relations with other states of the couples. the cops and i think that this work went well for us, because many, firstly, most of the cis countries, took an active part in this, the countries of asia, africa, latin america, the middle east, the islamic world responded to all our initiatives. but i'll start with something else. the main goal of our committee is, er, effective support of russia's foreign policy, er, inter-parliamentary contacts and the establishment of parliamentary diplomacy, in my opinion, in all these three areas. we have achieved results by developing them with bilateral