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Vyacheslav Volodin asked to prepare a resolution on suspension of Russia’s participation in the OSCE PA

According to Chairman of the State Duma, our country cannot tolerate the situation when it is not allowed to work and freely express its position at the Assembly

Parliamentarians from Russia and Latin American countries discussed global security issues

Parliamentarians noted the importance of building a just multipolar world and condemned the US and NATO aggressive policy. Issues of biological safety, countering interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states, and protecting the rights of children were also discussed at the round table

Vyacheslav Volodin: Russia and Nepal are implementing new forms of inter-parliamentary cooperation

On Friday, April 21, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin held a meeting with Chairman of the National Assembly of the Federal Parliament of Nepal Ganesh Prasad Timilsina

Petr Tolstoy: the Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa” destroyed a myth of Russia’s isolation

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma commented on the outcomes of the Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa”

Members of the parliaments of the African continent discussed with Russian colleagues joint efforts to ensure global security

Participants of the round table discussion on the topic “Indivisible Security: Capabilities and Contributions of Parliaments” discussed importance of sovereignty protection, non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, fight against poverty, countering terrorism and military biological threats

Vyacheslav Volodin called for increasing share of national currencies when making payments between the BRICS states

Chairman of the State Duma is convinced the world economy should be de-dollarized

Petr Tolstoy: Russia is ready for dialogue on Ukrainian issue, but there are some things we will never agree

“Russia is ready for a dialogue on Ukrainian issue, but there are some things that we will never accept and we will never agree with them,” Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy told reporters following a meeting of members of the State Duma with representatives of the Task Force for the peaceful resolution in Ukraine of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)

Petr Tolstoy: there is a decision to withdraw from the Council of Europe

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov had already sent a relevant note to the Secretary General of the organization, as said Deputy Chairman of the State Duma

Petr Tolstoy: the Council of Europe has turned into a puppet structure used to promote Russophobic attitude

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma stressed that Russia tried to raise important issues at the Council of Europe, but all Russia’s calls for dialogue were ignored

PACE ratified credentials of the Russian delegation

That was announced by the head of the Russian delegation to PACE, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy

Petr Tolstoy announced that Russian delegation to PACE would not go to Strasbourg

The Deputy Chairman of the State Duma also said that Russian parliamentarians would follow the work of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe remotely

Remarks by members of the State Duma on the OSCE’s decision not to send observers for the elections in Russia

The OSCE announced earlier that representatives of the organization would not observe the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Russia due to limitations on the election observation in the current epidemiological situation

Remarks by members of the State Duma on proposal of the European Parliament not to recognize results of the elections to the State Duma

The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament had proposed to the EU to prepare to withhold recognition of the results of the parliamentary elections in Russia, if Brussels decided that the elections were conducted in violation of international norms

Russian delegation left a conference hall of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

“There is no reason to continue our work at the organization which ignores the rules of procedures and common sense,” stressed the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy

Petr Tolstoy at the OSCE PA stressed the need for objective reporting of elections in Russia

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma held talks with ODIHR Director Matteo Mecacci and the OSCE PA Secretary General Roberto Montella

Petr Tolstoy: decision not to allow the Belarusian representative to attend the OSCE PA session in Vienna is an unprecedented scandal

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy strongly condemned the decision not to allow the representative of Belarus Andrei Savinykh participate in the OSCE PA session in Vienna

Petr Tolstoy: Russia has fulfilled all the obligations undertaken when it joined the Council of Europe

He also recalled that the Russian Federation had consistently and for a long-time favored reforming the monitoring procedures: not country-by-country monitoring, but missions should examine particular issues, as that would help to avoid drawing dangerous dividing lines between the member states of the Council of Europe

Vasilii Piskarev: NGOs held trainings in Prague how to collect confidential and classified information in former Soviet republics

Chairman of the Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs Vasillii Piskarev made addressed the participants of the coordination meeting of the heads of parliamentary delegations of the CSTO member states in the OSCE PA

The ODIHR mission is planned to be invited to observe the elections to the State Duma

Such initiative was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy at a meeting with the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Matteo Mecacci

Petr Tolstoy: Russia will not implement PACE’s politicized decisions

Head of the Russian delegation to PACE, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, following the plenary session of the Assembly, told journalists that PACE’s decisions and resolutions related to Crimea and Alexei Navalny “contradict the national legislation of the Russian Federation”