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Vyacheslav Volodin: Russia and Ethiopia have been conducting a dialogue based on respect and mutual beneficial cooperation and maintaining relations for 125 years

Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and Speaker of the House of the Federation of Ethiopia Agegnehu Teshager discussed issued of enhancing inter-parliamentary cooperation between Russia and Ethiopia

Meeting of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held in Minsk

Meeting was chaired by the CSTO PA Chairman, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. Parliamentarians discussed the harmonization of the legislations of the CSTO member states and development of model laws on countering challenges and threats to security in the area of responsibility of the organization. They also supported the adoption of a number of statements by the Council of the Assembly

Vyacheslav Volodin supported initiative of Belarus to hold a conference on issues of Eurasian security

CSTO PA Chairman, Chairman of the State Duma is convinced that the Assembly should strengthen cooperation with those states that share its principles

Vyacheslav Volodin: the current situation in Ukraine is the issue of security of the whole world

Neither Zelensky nor Ukraine would come to negotiating table until Washington let them do that, as said Chairman of the State Duma

Vyacheslav Volodin met with Chief of the Supreme Court of Iran Seyyed Ahmad Mortazavi Moghaddam

Meeting participants discussed issues related to exchanging experience in legislative processes, including related to protecting sovereignty, strengthening security and countering illegal Western sanctions

Vyacheslav Volodin: Macron, Biden, Zelensky, Scholz will face the International Criminal Court

According to Chairman of the State Duma, those people are “people of the past”, who have done everything to push the world into war

Vyacheslav Volodin and Esteban Lazo Hernández noted the effectiveness of the format of the Inter-parliamentary Commission on Cooperation

First meeting of the Commission on Cooperation between the State Duma and the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba was held in Havana

Vyacheslav Volodin: parliaments of Russia and Cuba are implementing new forms of cooperation in the interests of two states

During his official visit to Cuba, Chairman of the State Duma met with President of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State of Cuba Esteban Lazo Hernández

Vyacheslav Volodin laid a wreath at the José Martí Memorial

Vyacheslav Volodin met with President of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

Issues of development of inter-parliamentary cooperation between Russia and Cuba were discussed at the meeting

Vyacheslav Volodin: Biden is afraid of responsibility for his crimes

According to Chairman of the State Duma, that is the reason why Biden has already announced that he will run for a new term

Vyacheslav Volodin: it is important to use capacities of parliaments of Russian and Mozambique to develop economic relations, tourism and humanitarian projects

Chairman of the State Duma said that at the meeting with President of the Assembly of the Republic Esperança Bias

Vyacheslav Volodin: Russia and Nepal are implementing new forms of inter-parliamentary cooperation

On Friday, April 21, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin held a meeting with Chairman of the National Assembly of the Federal Parliament of Nepal Ganesh Prasad Timilsina

The State Duma adopted laws to protect Russian citizens from international organizations issuing decisions that contradict the national legislation

Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin stressed that those initiatives were adopted “in connection with the illegal actions of the international organizations, including the International Criminal Court”

Amendments to protect Russian citizens from international organizations issuing decisions that contradict the national legislation have been submitted to the State Duma

The draft law was initiated by members of the State Duma, including Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and leaders of all factions

The Federal Assembly approved the outcome report of the Parliamentary Commission on Investigation into Activities of the US Biological Laboratories in Ukraine

Document will be sent to President, Government, Prosecutor General’s Office, Investigative Committee and Commissioner for Human Rights

The State Duma adopted the outcome report of the Parliamentary Commission on Investigation into Activities of the US Biological Laboratories in Ukraine

The outcome report was presented by Co-Chair of the Commission, Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma Irina Yarovaya. Chairmen of the relevant Committees and representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Foreign Affairs also spoke on that issue. The outcome report consists of 200 pages and contains facts of the US criminal activity in Ukraine

Vyacheslav Volodin: there should be no negotiations with terrorists, they should be destroyed

Washington and Brussels’ support of the Kiev authorities led to the creation of a terrorist state in the center of Europe, according to Chairman of the State Duma

The Council of the State Duma decided to suspend payment of contributions to the OSCE PA

That was announced by Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin

Vyacheslav Volodin: Western political system has degraded, as well as its leaders

European and American politicians who are responsible for the crimes committed in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia and Ukraine, should stand trial before an international tribunal, according to Chairman of the State Duma