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October 2, 2019

Closed hearings on Russia were held at a meeting of PACE Monitoring Committee

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy spoke about that. According to him, "many of the participants of the hearings agreed that the rapporteurs, who are expected to visit Russia in October, should show a true picture. We are ready to receive them more than once to provide full opportunity to explore all Russian realities in as many details as possible"

September 24, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy: the US unduly and treacherously abuse its right

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy said that the situation with delay in the issuance of US visas for part of the Russian delegation to the 74th session of the UN General Assembly is a deliberate provocation

September 20, 2019

International Committee held a meeting with a delegation of Egyptian parliamentarians

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy proposed to hold a joint meeting of the international affairs committees of the State Duma and the Egyptian parliament after Sochi meetings at the end of this year or at the beginning of the next one

September 12, 2019

Head of the International Committee commented on the US sanction against employees of the Investigative Committee

According to Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy, “the US is ready to impose sanctions for the sake of sanctions, it has already become a general tool of American foreign policy. Without a twinge of conscience, Washington intervenes in the affairs of sovereign states, trying to achieve its geopolitical tasks. I’m sure that Russia's reaction to the next illegal US sanctions will be adequate”

September 10, 2019

Head of the International Committee held several meetings

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy met with Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Israel to Russia Harry Koren and Iraqi Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Muayad Salih

September 7, 2019

Head of International Committee called the prisoners exchange between Russia and Ukraine a step towards restoring dialogue

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy noted the importance of the fact that in this situation the new Ukrainian authorities took a reasonable approach and were guided by the people’s fate

September 6, 2019

State Duma will closely monitor the progress of the case against the UEC top manager Alexander Korshunov

According to Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, US charges against Alexander Korshunov may be far-fetched to undermine the professional reputation of the Russian aircraft industry

September 5, 2019

The State Duma called the words of US congressmen to impose sanctions against the Russian authorities a blatant interference in Russian affairs

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy said that the appeals of the Chairman and eldest republican of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Eliot Engel and Michael McCaul, “once again confirm of the correctness of the decision of the State Duma to create a special Commission to investigate the facts of foreign interference in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation”

August 28, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy commented on the release of Kirill Vyshinsky

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy hopes that the “constructive approach of the new Kiev authorities [shown in the case of the head of RIA Novosti Ukraine –Editor’s Note] will be projected into other areas of relations with Russia”

August 27, 2019

Head of the International Committee informed that meetings with US congressmen and senators have not been planned in Moscow

Commenting on the statement of the US Senator Ron Johnson that he was denied Russian visa, the Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy emphasized that at the moment there is no information about the visit of the US Congress delegation to Russia, which the Senator referred to

August 23, 2019

Head of the International Committee called the second round of Skripals-related US sanctions the next wave of a massive anti-Russian provocation

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy reminded that recently Scotland Yard was forced to admit that it could not find evidence of Russian involvement in the so-called poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal

August 21, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy: G7 steps to contain and isolate our country will ultimately lead to nothing

According to the Chairman of the Committee, if Russia receives an invitation to participate in the G7 summit in 2020, the event’s agenda and ensuring of the equal rights of all parties should be considered

August 20, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy considers the results of the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron as a forward step

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, the coordinator of Interparliamentary Group on interaction with Parliament of the French Republic, noted that this is a step both towards development of bilateral cooperation and the "untying of the most complex knots of modern international politics"

August 19, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy: we will use the parliamentary resource to resist attempts to interfere in the elections

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs also emphasized that this is “an absolutely timely measure, which should not be delayed for a minute”

August 7, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy commented on Donald Trump’s decree on freezing all Venezuelan government assets in the US

According to the Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, the decree of President of the USA Donald Trump on freezing all Venezuelan government assets in the US is "banditry and raiding". "Washington behaves as an extremely unreliable partner who, under far-fetched grounds, is engaged in pure robbery. Such actions are contrary to international law," said Leonid Slutskiy

August 2, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy commented on the termination of the INF Treaty

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs noted that "the responsibility for breaking down the INF Treaty rests solely with the United States," and called "outright cynicism" attempts to transfer blame for the American unilateral withdrawal from the Treaty to Russia

July 29, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy: Russia is ready for attempts to challenge its credentials in PACE

Russia is ready that at the January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2020, some countries will try to challenge the credentials of our delegation, and is working on it, said Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy. “We are ready for this, we are working with all political groups and most country delegations without exception,” he said

July 22, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy: politicians who we can talk with appear in the Verkhovna Rada

Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, commented on the elections to the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, which took place the day before. In particular, he noted that "now all responsibility for the fate of the Minsk agreements, first of all, their political part, falls on the new authority"

July 11, 2019

Leaders of the State Duma factions discussed key security threats

Parliamentary hearings “Ensuring strategic stability in the context of a changing global security architecture: a parliamentary dimension” were held at the State Duma today. The participants discussed new global challenges and threats, Russia's role in strengthening international security, as well as the importance of developing the institutions of inter-parliamentary diplomacy

July 8, 2019

The Council of the State Duma to discuss the imposition of restrictions on certain goods from Georgia

According to parliamentarians, unfriendly actions against Russian citizens and Russia in Georgia should be adequately assessed. Members of the State Duma intend to propose suspending import of wine and mineral water from Georgia, as well as to limit remittances to this country

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