November 10, 2021 Members of the State Duma to form the part of the Interparliamentary Group of Russia It was proposed to elect the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin as Co-Chairman of the Interparliamentary Group and Evgeny Popov as Deputy Co-Chairman
November 9, 2021 Ivan Melnikov held a meeting with Minister of Higher Education of Cuba Jose Ramon Saborido Loidi Meeting participants discussed issues of training of Cuban citizens in Russian universities
November 7, 2021 Vyacheslav Volodin: we need to adopt dozens of laws to implement decisions on integration of Russia and Belarus On November 4, Presidents of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus at the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State signed Integration Decree, as well as approved 28 union programs, Military Doctrine and Migration Policy Concept
November 2, 2021 Vycheslav Volodin had a telephone conversation with Chairman of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin
October 18, 2021 Leonid Slutsky commented on the decision to suspend Russia’s mission to NATO The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs noted the overtly confrontational attitude of the Alliance towards Russia
October 12, 2021 Members of the State Duma of the 8th convocation gathered at the first plenary meeting Parliamentarians elected Chairman of the State Duma, his Deputies and approved compositions of the State Duma Committees and Commissions
October 12, 2021 Vyacheslav Volodin elected Chairman of the State Duma of the eighth convocation He noted in his speech at the first plenary meeting that the work of the State Duma deputies “should be meaningful and final results-oriented, while the populism is destructive”
September 26, 2021 Chairman of the State Duma emphasized importance of countering foreign interference Viacheslav Volodin stressed that foreign states will continue their attempts to interfere in Russia’s internal affairs, as they want "to halt development of our country"
September 24, 2021 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
September 23, 2021 Viacheslav Volodin on restrictions on the Russian delegation: it would be right not to participate in the PACE session The Chairman of the State Duma commented on the restrictions on freedom of movement of the Russian delegation in Strasbourg during the PACE session due to the fact that the EU does not recognize Sputnik V vaccine certificates
September 16, 2021 Viacheslav Volodin on the report of the European Parliament: “We will not tolerate such resolutions” The Chairman of the State Duma is convinced that the adopted resolution “is another attempt to interfere in our internal affairs and put pressure on Russian citizens”
September 16, 2021 Leonid Slutskiy: the European Parliament undermines the prospects for unfreezing of dialogue with the new convocation of the State Duma The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs said that the report calling not to recognize the results of the elections to the State Duma “is the clearest example of meddling in the Russian electoral process by the largest inter-parliamentary organization”
September 15, 2021 The State Duma Commission does not exclude tightening of legislation relating Google That was announced by the Chairman of the Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs Vasilii Piskarev. He stressed that the company “shamefully evades responding to the claims”
September 14, 2021 Member of the State Duma is convinced that Ukraine should build cooperation with Russia and Belarus, not a military state The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy said that Ukraine was openly used as “a staging post” in the anti-Russia project, and “as a pawn in Washington's geopolitical game”
September 7, 2021 Leonid Slutskiy: calls not to recognize the legitimacy of the new convocation of the State Duma are considered as interference in Russia’s internal affairs The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs stressed that the election campaign “is being conducted in accordance with all democratic standards, transparently and honestly”
