State Duma News

Elena Panina about doping-scandal: to seek an explanation of what is happening in just sports sphere is naive

“The CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Travis Tygart, advocated the complete ban of Russian athletes from participation in the Olympic Games. The sanctions proposed by the WADA Compliance Committee are not enough for him, he needs to destroy the Russian sport, as a whole. This is the case when private interests are mixed with big politics,” said the member of the Committee on International Affairs

Sergei Krivonosov visits Jordan to develop cooperation in the tourism industry between the countries

Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture, Sport and Youth Affairs met with the Russian Ambassador to Jordan Gleb Desyatnikov in Amman and also held a bilateral meeting with the director of the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Amman Stanislav Simakov and learned more about the main activities of the Centre and its capabilities in the interests of promoting the tourism potential of Russia in Jordan

Members of the International Committee took part in a round table on the protection of the rights and interests of Russian citizens staying abroad

Members of the Committee on International Affairs discussed a situation with the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of Russian citizens staying abroad at the roundtable organized by the Federation Council

Crimea and Sevastopol are now displayed as the territory of Russia on Apple devices

Chairman of the Committee on Security and Corruption Control Vasilii Piskarev met with Daria Ermolina, who represents interests of Apple in Russia, on Wednesday, November 27

Ivan Melnikov: we have a lot of common tasks and we share the view on how to achieve them

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov gave a speech at the 50th-anniversary plenary meeting of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly in St. Petersburg. He noted that the participating countries can develop cooperation even further

Pavel Krasheninnikov met with a delegation of the Council of Europe

The Chairman of the Committee on State Building and Legislation held a bilateral meeting in the State Duma with a delegation of the Council of Europe led by the Head of the Justice and Legal Co-operation Department of the Council of Europe Sundberg Fredrik

Leonid Slutskiy: actions of the Estonian authorities set us back for almost 15 years

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs commented on the ratification of the Russian-Estonian State Border Treaty

Sergei Mironov: the Left is Germany’s best party for cooperation with Russia

On November 20, the head of the Just Russia faction, Sergei Mironov, met with a delegation of the German Left Party led by Dietmar Bartsch, co-chairman of the party faction in the Bundestag

Olga Epifanova: any form of international cooperation is useful for preserving the Arctic

Olga Epifanova, Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, expressed such opinion at the Sixth Northern Dimension Parliamentary Forum in the Norwegian city of Bodø on Wednesday, November 20

Leonid Slutskiy met with Mexican Ambassador to Russia Norma Bertha Pensado Moreno

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mexico to the Russian Federation noted the intensification of bilateral inter-parliamentary cooperation, and also discussed the possibility of holding a joint meeting of the foreign policy committees of the State Duma and the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of Mexico

Sergei Neverov: cooperation of CIS parliamentarians will not allow falsifiers of history to divide our nationals

According to the head of the United Russia faction, this cooperation of parliamentarians also provides a unique opportunity to implement educational projects and humanitarian initiatives to protect memories of our common victories

Pavel Zavalnyi told how to overcome the divide between Russia and Europe

The Chairman of the Committee on Energy said that not only an intensive dialogue and the lifting of any sanctions, but also the expansion of cooperation in those areas where it benefits both parties are necessary

Russian parliamentarians laid flowers at the monument to prisoners of war executed in Norway during WWII

The delegation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation arrived in the country to participate in the Sixth Northern Dimension Parliamentary Forum, which will be held in Bodø

Vasilii Piskarev: more than 50 legal entities from 12 countries interfered in Russia’s internal affairs

He said this following a meeting of the Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs. The parliamentarian specified that the interventions took place in 17 regions of our country

Leonid Slutskiy and Ann K. Hofer called for strengthening Russian-Philippine interparliamentary cooperation

During the meeting with the delegation of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the Republic of the Philippines, the Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs noted the need to increase the trade volume between the two countries