On Wednesday, the text of a translation from Hebrew of a statement by Israeli parliamentarians on the demolition of monuments of Soviet soldiers who died in Poland during the Second World War was distributed in the building of the State Duma.

A few excerpts from this statement, which the Israeli Knesset adopted on July 19 - simultaneously with the discussion of such a statement in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, - Interfax quotes.

The fact that the lower house of parliament of the Russian Federation for the first time considered this draft statement in synchronism with the Israeli Knesset, which also discussed a similar document on Wednesday, is reported by another leading Russian agency - TASS.

In addition, the draft of an appeal "to the parliaments of the countries of Europe, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the European Parliament in connection with the insult to the memory of soldiers who died during the liberation of Europe from Nazism, Holocaust and other crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the World War II "was prepared yesterday by the Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, the leaders of all four parliamentary factions and the chairman of the profile committee Leonid Slutsky.

As the agency TASS recalls, on June 29 a meeting of the State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and the Chairman of the Knesset of Israel Yulia Edelstein took place.

The speakers agreed on the adoption of statements by the State Duma and the Knesset condemning this law.

"Our peoples suffered most from fascism during the Second World War. Totally unacceptable desecration of monuments to soldiers who gave their lives in the struggle against Nazism, and the more legal justification for these criminal acts ", - he said then head of the Russian lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin.