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Viacheslav Volodin: the election results in Ukraine show the failure of Poroshenko’s policy

According to the Chairman of the State Duma, the results of voting in Ukraine is an assessment of the inability of Petro Poroshenko to build constructive relations with Russia

Members of the State Duma commented on the presidential elections in Ukraine

According to the head of the United Russia faction Sergei Neverov, it is important for Vladimir Zelensky to resume dialogue on the Donbas within the framework of the Minsk process. Leonid Slutskiy, in his turn, urged to be careful in assessing the new President of Ukraine

Leonid Slutskiy on the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka: the Russian side will provide all necessary support

Commenting on the tragedy, the Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs also noted that "terrorism is a world evil, which we should fight together"

Chairman of the State Duma expressed condolences on terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka

Members of the State Duma believe that Russia and Japan should more intensively use the large potential of cooperation to resolve controversial issues

It is important that the heads of Russia and Japan maintain the constructive tone of the negotiations and demonstrate their readiness to develop the dialogue, says a member of the Committee on International Affairs Sergei Zhelezniak. He clarified that the key condition for the conclusion of a peace treaty is still the full recognition of the outcome of World War II, including Russia's sovereignty over the Kuril Islands by the Japanese side

Viacheslav Volodin met with Zinaida Greceanîi

Issues of inter-parliamentary cooperation were discussed at the meeting of the Chairman of the State Duma and the leader of the faction of the Party of Socialists in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova

Viacheslav Volodin expressed his condolences in connection with the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris

Emomali Rahmon noted the importance of inter-parliamentary ties for the development of relations between Russia and Tajikistan

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin held a meeting with the President of Tajikistan, where issues of cooperation between the two states, including in the field of economics, security and education, were discussed

Members of the State Duma called Notre-Dame de Paris fire a tragedy for world culture

This fire should serve as a lesson for all countries, especially for Russia, a member of the Committee on Committee on Physical Culture, Sport and Youth Affairs, Dmitrii Svishchev said. He believes that it is necessary to understand the reasons why it happened, and to prevent from happening again

Members of the State Duma: it is possible that a “road map” for resolving the Russian-PACE crisis would be developed until the end of May

Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, noted that "the resolution on Tiny Kox’s report that was adopted last week allows to develop a roadmap for resolving the crisis in Russia's relations with PACE"

Members of the State Duma visited the DPRK

The parliamentary delegation consisted of representatives of four parliamentary parties: the CPRF faction was represented by Kazbek Taisaev, who heads the parliamentary group on relations with the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly; Andrei Kuzmin from Liberal Democratic Party faction, Fedot Tumusov from Just Russia faction. The delegation was led by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, the head of the United Russia faction Sergei Neverov

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma and President of the Omani Council of State discussed the settlement of the Syrian crisis

During the meeting Sergei Neverov noted that "the approaches of our countries on key problems of the Middle East and international relations are close. Our countries are in favor of resolving the conflicts and crisis situations remaining in the Middle East by political means"

Petr Tolstoy called the PACE resolution an ultimatum

The Deputy Chairman of the State Duma stressed that the adopted PACE resolution calls for return of the Russian delegation, but provides no guarantees

Leonid Slutskiy: it is too early to celebrate and expect the return of Russia to PACE, this is only the first step

The Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma on International Affairs commented on the adopted report of the Dutch Senator Tiny Kox that allows the creation of a special mechanism between the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and PACE

Members of the State Duma proposed to hold an international parliamentary conference on the return of Syrian refugees home

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Neverov proposed this initiative to the Turkish and Iranian colleagues at the first joint meeting of the foreign affairs committees of the State Duma and the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Islamic Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran held in the State Duma