State Duma News

August 28, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy commented on the release of Kirill Vyshinsky

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy hopes that the “constructive approach of the new Kiev authorities [shown in the case of the head of RIA Novosti Ukraine –Editor’s Note] will be projected into other areas of relations with Russia”

August 27, 2019

Head of the International Committee informed that meetings with US congressmen and senators have not been planned in Moscow

Commenting on the statement of the US Senator Ron Johnson that he was denied Russian visa, the Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy emphasized that at the moment there is no information about the visit of the US Congress delegation to Russia, which the Senator referred to

August 27, 2019

Observers from the State Duma did not find any irregularities in the election of the President of Abkhazia

This was reported to journalists by First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Issues of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Contacts with Fellow Countryman Konstantin Zatulin. He leads a delegation of State Duma observers. The parliamentarian pointed out that the elections were not accompanied by any irregularities

First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on CIS Affairs and Contacts with Fellow Countryman Konstantin Zatulin

August 23, 2019

Head of the International Committee called the second round of Skripals-related US sanctions the next wave of a massive anti-Russian provocation

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy reminded that recently Scotland Yard was forced to admit that it could not find evidence of Russian involvement in the so-called poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal

August 23, 2019

Vasilii Piskarev told about the tasks of the new Commission of the State Duma

The first meeting of the Commission on the investigation of the foreign states' interference in the Russia's internal affairs was held in the State Duma. It will analyze and study data on foreign interference in the internal affairs of our country, as well as defend Russia's sovereignty on international platforms

August 21, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy: G7 steps to contain and isolate our country will ultimately lead to nothing

According to the Chairman of the Committee, if Russia receives an invitation to participate in the G7 summit in 2020, the event’s agenda and ensuring of the equal rights of all parties should be considered

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy

August 20, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy considers the results of the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron as a forward step

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, the coordinator of Interparliamentary Group on interaction with Parliament of the French Republic, noted that this is a step both towards development of bilateral cooperation and the "untying of the most complex knots of modern international politics"

State Duma Commission will address the issue of interference in the Russian internal affairs

August 19, 2019

An inter-factional commission on the issue of foreign interference in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation, including in elections, will appear in the State Duma. This decision was made at an extraordinary meeting of the State Duma Council

August 19, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy: we will use the parliamentary resource to resist attempts to interfere in the elections

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs also emphasized that this is “an absolutely timely measure, which should not be delayed for a minute”

August 12, 2019

Extraordinary meeting of the Council of the State Duma on foreign interference in the Russia’s internal affairs will be held on August 19

This was announced by the Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin. The Chairman of the Committee on Security and Corruption Control Vasilii Piskarev was mandated to study the existing materials, analyze the situation and to present proposals to the Council of the State Duma to consider the facts of interference

August 7, 2019

Committee on Security and Corruption Control will request information on interference in the elections from law enforcement agencies

The Committee on Security and Corruption Control supports the initiative of the leaders of the factions to examine in detail who can stand behind the riots in Moscow and attempts to influence the course of the election campaign in Russia

August 7, 2019

The United Russia faction supported the proposal to investigate foreign interference in Russia's internal affairs

Representatives of the United Russia faction also supported the initiative of colleagues to convene an extraordinary meeting of the Council of the State Duma, said first deputy head of the faction Andrey Isaev

First deputy head of the United Russia faction Andrey Isaev

August 7, 2019

Leonid Slutskiy commented on Donald Trump’s decree on freezing all Venezuelan government assets in the US

According to the Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, the decree of President of the USA Donald Trump on freezing all Venezuelan government assets in the US is "banditry and raiding". "Washington behaves as an extremely unreliable partner who, under far-fetched grounds, is engaged in pure robbery. Such actions are contrary to international law," said Leonid Slutskiy

August 7, 2019

Gennady Zyuganov proposed to hold a meeting of the State Duma Council on August 19 to discuss the issue of foreign interference in elections in Russia

According to the head of the Communist Party faction, it is necessary to create a commission to investigate the intervention of foreign forces in the Russian elections and find out who stands behind the provocations and who gives money for this

Head of the Communist Party faction Gennady Zyuganov

August 6, 2019

In August foreign diplomats will be asked to come to the State Duma to report on attempts to interfere in Russian elections

The head of the LDPR faction Vladimir Zhirinovskii called on "the harshest way" to respond to attempts of foreign interference in Russia's internal affairs