News of the Chairman

Viacheslav Volodin: parliamentarians of Russia and Belarus will discuss the abolition of roaming between countries

Chairman of the State Duma told about this at the opening ceremony of the 55th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia Union State, which is held in Moscow on December 21-22

The Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia Union State was held in Moscow

Council members discussed the agenda of the plenary session of the 55th session of the Parliamentary Assembly, key issues are abolition of roaming in the Union State and the draft budget of the Union State for 2019

State Duma intends to send an appeal to the OSCE PA because of persecution of the Ukrainian clergy

This was stated by Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin. He stressed that the State Duma may consider a special procedure for obtaining citizenship by Ukrainian clergy who become victims of the faith. According to him, the Ukrainian authorities are grossly violating constitutional principles

Chairman of the State Duma: PACE has become a hostage in the hands of extreme radicals

Radically minded Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic countries with the active support of the United States and the United Kingdom actually impose their opinions on the entire Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, said Viacheslav Volodin in an interview to the program “Tolstoy. Sunday"

Viacheslav Volodin: the legitimacy of the Kiev’s decision on autocephaly is doubtful

The Chairman of the State Duma said that President of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko is destroying the Ukrainian society, which is already on the verge of discord

Chairman of the State Duma and Chairman of the House of Representatives of Libya signed an agreement on cooperation

Viacheslav Volodin and Aguila Saleh also discussed issues of cooperation between the two countries as counter-terrorism and enhancing security, as well as the prospects for the Russian-Libyan inter-parliamentary dialogue

Viacheslav Volodin: the European Parliament’s decision on Nord Stream-2 was made under US pressure

According to the Chairman of the State Duma, "on the eve of the upcoming elections to the European Parliament, European voters should think about whose interests their representatives uphold in this European structure"

Border guards who stopped provocations in the Kerch Strait were awarded Honorary Citations of the State Duma

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin stressed that "the border guards stopped an attempt to unleash an armed conflict in our territorial waters in full compliance with the norms of international law"

Viacheslav Volodin told about the reaction of foreign parliamentarians to the Ukrainian provocation in the Kerch Strait

According to Viacheslav Volodin, the provocation of the regime of Petr Poroshenko in the Kerch Strait was a consequence of the fact that European politicians for a long time did not want to take responsibility for what is happening in Ukraine

Viacheslav Volodin: Mahatma Gandhi proved that a lot of things can be done without wars

Chairman of the State Duma said this during a joint statement to the press with Speaker of the House of People of the Parliament of India Sumitra Mahajan

Conferences of young legislators and experts will become new formats of interaction between the parliaments of Russia and India

During a meeting with the Speaker of the House of People of the Parliament of India, Sumitra Mahajan, the Chairman of the State Duma supported the proposal of the Indian side to hold a conference of experts and spoke in favor of holding a conference of young legislators of Russia and India

Vice-President of India invited observers from Russia to monitor parliamentary elections 2019

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin met with the Vice-President, Chairman of the Council of States of the Parliament of the Republic of India Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu. During the meeting, the parties discussed the development of relations between the two countries in the field of security and economy

Viacheslav Volodin met with Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi

The meeting was held in the framework of the official visit of the State Duma delegation to India from 9 to 10 December

Viacheslav Volodin: meetings of the Russian-Indian Interparliamentary Commission should be annual

The Chairman of the State Duma also said that close working relations should be developed within the framework of the specified committees. He said this in an interview to the Indian TV channel DD1

Delegation of the State Duma visited the headquarters of the Russian-Indian Venture ”BrahMos“

During the tour, Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin and the members of the delegation examined the exhibition hall of the Russian-Indian Joint Venture “BrahMos Aerospace Limited”