State Duma News

Measures to counter foreign interference in Russian elections have been introduced

If an international or foreign non-governmental organization tries to influence the will of Russian citizens, it will be considered undesirable and should immediately cease its activities

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"

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

Mikhail Degtiarev will address the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the incident in Austria

The Head of the Committee on Physical Culture, Sport and Youth Affairs noted that the incident occurred just prior to the second stage of the Biathlon World Cup just in order to destabilize our team

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"

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

Members of the State Duma commemorated Andrei Karlov

The Russian Ambassador to Turkey died tragically in Ankara on December 19, 2016. A group of Russian parliamentarians visits Ankara to discuss the situation with a Russian girl, whose father, a Turkish citizen, has illegally been holding her in the country for seven years

Member of the State Duma commented on the decision of the President of France to impose emergency rule

Sergei Zhelezniak, a member of the Committee on International Affairs, believes that the decision to impose emergency economic and social rule indicates the desire of Emmanuel Macron to reduce the tensions. However, the parliamentarian believes that the announced economic measures will not be enough

Svetlana Zhurova: accounts created in social networks about protests in Paris can be a provocation

First Deputy Chairwoman of the Committee on International Affairs Svetlana Zhurova believes that the information that accounts in social networks, spreading messages about protests in France, are allegedly linked to the Russian Federation, can be a provocation. No matter what happens in the world, “Russia is responsible for it,” the parliamentarian said

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