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February 13, 2019

Members of the State Duma commented on foreign media reports on the possibility of new anti-Russian sanctions

Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, noted that “the West prefers to blame Russia for everything, over and over again, for reasons that are absolutely far-fetched”, though the only ones against whom any restrictions could be imposed for the incident in the Kerch Strait are the current Kiev authorities headed by President Petr Poroshenko

February 7, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy: non-admission of Russian citizens as observers at the Ukrainian elections is neglect of Kiev’s international obligations

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs noted that even special representative of the US State Department for Ukraine Kurt Volker indicated that Russians should be granted access to monitor the elections in Ukraine as part of the OSCE ODIHR mission

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy

February 6, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy supported the initiative to return Russia a contribution paid to the Council of Europe

Earlier, the need to return Russian contributions to the Council of Europe budget was announced by Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin. He was talking about contributions that Russia made from 2014 to 2017

February 1, 2019

Head of the Committee on International Affairs called the US position on the INF Treaty a threat to international security

Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, said that the position of the United States of America poses a danger of new arms race. He believes that Russia should not accept another US ultimatum on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

January 31, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy: resolution of the European Parliament is a gross violation of the international law norms

Thus, the Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs commented on the resolution of the European Parliament on recognition of Juan Guaidó as the legitimate President of Venezuela

January 21, 2019

Members of the State Duma commented on the inclusion of ”GRU officers“ in the EU sanctions list

Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, said that the new sanctions of the European Union "named after Petrov and Boshirov" are absolutely illegal and do not fit any logic. Adalbi Shkhagoshev, a member of the Committee on Security and Corruption Control, believes that "the EU continues to use high offices and famous names so that anti-Russian sanctions remain in the top news headlines"

January 21, 2019

Chairman of the State Duma received invitations to visit Cuba and Qatar

On January 21, at a meeting of the Council of the State Duma, Viacheslav Volodin informed about invitations from the heads of parliaments of Cuba and Qatar to pay working visits to these countries

January 17, 2019

The State Duma will not send delegation to PACE

The Russian Federation will also not make contributions to the budget of the Council of Europe in 2019. As Viacheslav Volodin said, these decisions are made only in the interests of Russian citizens

January 15, 2019

The Committee on International Affairs suggests not to send a delegation to PACE in 2019

Chairman of the Committee Leonid Slutskiy announced this after its meeting. The issue of sending the delegation will be considered at a plenary meeting of the State Duma on Thursday, January 17

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy and Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy

January 10, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy: signing of Tomos of the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine will deepen the split of Orthodoxy in Ukraine

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs is concerned about possible persecution of the priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate and damages to church complexes after the signing of the Tomos of a new religious structure. “This is certainly a forced political action, which will definitely lead to growing confrontation in Ukraine,” the parliamentarian said

January 10, 2019

Adalbi Shkhagoshev: Russia is ready to cooperate with PACE within the framework of international law

First Deputy Head of the United Russia faction noted that such cooperation is possible only due to common interest and sincerity in work, otherwise the Russian delegation will not take part in the next session

First Deputy Head of the United Russia faction Adalbi Shkhagoshev

January 9, 2019

Members of the State Duma commented on the possibility of participation of the Russian delegation in the PACE session

Parliamentarians are going to hold consultations during the week, following these consultations, until January 21, members of the State Duma will take a decision whether the Russian delegation will participate in the next PACE session. At the same time, parliamentarians reminded that the situation when the Russian delegation is deprived of the right to vote is unacceptable

December 29, 2018

Leonid Slutskiy: “Russia succeeds in achieving its foreign policy goals”

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs noted that the main difficulty in promoting interests abroad for our country in 2018 was active resistance of Western countries that had set the task of maximally weakening Russia's capacity at economic and political level

December 23, 2018

Leonid Slutskiy is ready to assist in arrangement of the UN mission visit to Crimea

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs commented on the adoption of the UN General Assembly resolution on alleged violations of human rights in Crimea

December 21, 2018

Russia and Japan signed a Memorandum on Parliamentary Cooperation

The document was signed by coordinator of the Interparliamentary Group on Interaction with the Parliament of Japan Yevgenii Shulepov and chairman of the Japan-Russia Parliamentary Friendship Association Ichiro Aisawa. The delegation of the State Duma headed by First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Aleksandr Zhukov is visiting Tokyo

Chairman of the Japan-Russia Parliamentary Friendship Association Ichiro Aisawa and coordinator of the Interparliamentary Group on Interaction with the Parliament of Japan Yevgenii Shulepov

December 20, 2018

The State Duma will request information on Russian-Japanese talks on the Kuril Islands from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Committee on International Affairs is supposed to address the Ministry. A group of members of the CPRF faction initiated to adopt relevant protocol commitment. “We got the commitment, will consider it and later inform the Chamber about the results”, - Chairman of the Committee Leonid Slutskiy said

December 12, 2018

Leonid Slutskiy: partial lifting of sanctions clauses in PACE will not solve problems in relations with Russia

The head of the Committee on International Affairs called a partial prohibition on depriving a right to vote a half-measure in order to ensure the legitimacy of the election of Council of Europe officials and judges of the ECHR. The member of the State Duma believes that if the possibility of depriving national delegations of the right to vote in PACE maintains the principles of parliamentarism will be violated

December 7, 2018

Statements of the US Secretary of State about the violation of the INF Treaty by Russia were commented in the State Duma

Head of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy stated that using such accusations, the American authorities are trying, first of all, to strengthen the effect of their statements, not to find the truth. The parliamentarian noted that it was the United States that for the last few years had been engaged in testing of target-missiles for the missile defense system, which, according to the general opinion of specialists, are actually medium-range missiles

November 30, 2018

Member of the State Duma commented on the cancellation of the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, believes that the cancellation of the meeting of the presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States is a “Twitter anti-diplomacy” and “a kind of PR move”

November 27, 2018

Members of the Committee on International Affairs believe that the situation in Aleppo should receive the proper OPCW reaction

Chairman of the Committee Leonid Slutskiy said that "flirting of the West with terrorist organizations such as Jabhat al-Nusra leads to the fact that the center of terrorism still cannot be extinguished in Syria." He believes that this situation should finally be brought up for discussion by the world community

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