State Duma News

Leonid Slutskiy said that the new US calls to impose sanctions against Russia are totally absurd

Earlier, the US senators appealed to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to impose new sanctions against the Russian Federation. The reason for the appeal is the information of the US intelligence that Russia allegedly "continues to hold large-scale and systematic meddling campaign" in the US election

Ivan Melnikov met with Ambassador of China Zhang Hanhui

On February 21, 2020, on behalf of the Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin, the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov hela a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Russian Federation Zhang Hanhui

Members of the State Duma proposed to discuss the creation of a model law on Cities of Labor Valour within the framework of the IPA CIS

The Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin announced that proposal, reacting to the suggestion of the head of the LDPR faction Vladimir Zhirinovskii, who said that the title "City of Labor Valour" may also be given to cities that were formerly part of the USSR

Russian delegation presented to the CSTO members a Declaration on the inadmissibility of revision of the results of World War II

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy announced that at the meeting of the heads of delegations of the CSTO member-states. "In our opinion, attempts to rewrite history are unacceptable, it is inappropriate to rewrite the results of the war after 75 years passed," he said

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma met with Chairman of the Board of the German-Russian Forum

Aleksandr Zhukov noted that the position of the German-Russian Forum, aimed at a constructive dialogue between the two countries, contributes to the development of relations between the Russian Federation and Germany

Viacheslav Volodin: the US has done nothing for the country's humanitarian sphere in 20 years of presence in Afghanistan

During the bilateral meeting of the Chairman of the State Duma and the Speaker of the House of the People of the National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mir Rahman Rahmani, the parties noted that the US presence in Afghanistan has not resolve issues in the social sphere of the country, though, the United States assumed responsibility for its security and peace

Viacheslav Volodin and Mir Rahman Rahmani discussed issues of cooperation between Russia and Afghanistan in ensuring the security

A bilateral meeting of Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin and Speaker of the House of the People of the National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Mir Rahman Rahmani was held in the State Duma

Facts of drug propaganda among young people by foreign NPOs were revealed at the State Duma

The Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs called for expediting the adoption of bills aimed at strengthening responsibility for drug propaganda, and also proposed amendments to the Criminal Code on liability for involving minors in drug crimes

Viacheslav Volodin proposed creating an international institute for the protection of historical memory

The Chairman of the State Duma made such a proposal during a meeting of the interparliamentary commission of the State Duma and the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, which is being held in the State Duma today

Maja Gojković: we are proud that we never imposed sanctions against the Russian Federation and will never do this

At the meeting with the Chairman of the State Duma, Viacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, noted that relations between Serbia and Russia are “the closest bilateral relations.” Maja Gojković stressed that Russia and Serbia are among the countries protecting international law

Leonid Slutskiy mentioned the number of foreign parliamentarians to take part in the Forum ”Development of Parliamentarism“

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs said that 140 parliamentarians from 60 states have applied to participate in the International Forum "Development of Parliamentarism", which will be held in Moscow in the end of June

Ivan Belekov: Eurasianism, for us, is a conflation of civilizations, cultures and nationalities of our great and timeless Motherland

Member of the Committee on Issues of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Contacts with Fellow Countryman took part in an extended meeting of the General Council of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly. Representatives of more than 20 countries of Eurasia attended the meeting. They took a decision to organize work to increase the Assembly's presence in all states of Greater Eurasia

Leonid Slutskiy assessed the timelines of recognition of Crimea as part of Russia in PACE

“I dare to suggest that in 10-15 years, and maybe even earlier, the number of those who, having studied the history of the peninsula and having talked to the Russian delegation to PACE, agree with our position will increase significantly,” said the Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs

Exhibition dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Yalta Conference was opened at the State Duma

The Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin recalled the words of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, that destruction of the past, lack of unity in the face of threats can lead to terrible consequences for the whole world

Russian delegation to PACE opposed the resolution regulating the restriction of rights of national delegations

The Russian delegation to PACE issued a statement related to the adoption of the resolution “Complementary joint procedure between the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly in response to a serious violation by a member State of its statutory obligations”