MOSCOW, March 05. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia has asked the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe's advisory body on constitutional matters, to assess whether decisions made by Ukraine’s unicameral parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, are legitimate, the speaker of the Russian lower house of parliament said Wednesday.

“I have to report that we have filed, through the legal committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a request to the Venice Commission regarding the legitimacy of decisions made (by the Verkhovna Rada),” State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said.