OREANDA-NEWS. A video of the incident appeared in the media, which took place during the speech of the chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, who spoke at a conference of European speakers of parliaments.

In the video, you can see how the representatives of the delegations of Poland and the Baltic countries defiantly left their seats in the hall even before the Russian speaker began his speech. At the same time, it was obvious how few of those who decided to leave during the speech of the Russian chairman of the Federation Council were.

Matvienko's speech was the main one at the opening part of the conference. Its name was "Democracy in the Face of the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis: Sharing Experience, Next Steps."

As a representative of the Russian delegation told later, when the senator came to the podium of a speaker, members of delegations of Poland and the Baltic states left the hall.

Matvienko herself noted that she did not notice their departure. In her opinion, if the actions of the members of the delegations were demonstrative, it only speaks of their lack of diplomatic and political culture.

Senator Alexei Pushkov commented on the incident with the delegations of Poland and the Baltic countries at the conference of European speakers of parliaments.

During the speech of the chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, the diplomats defiantly left the hall. In the opinion of a member of the Federation Council, despite a clear desire to prove something to someone, the "demarche" failed.

“It looked pale: almost all the participants remained in the hall. The people who left were in the absolute minority. An obvious fiasco,” Pushkov wrote on Twitter.