State Duma News

Viacheslav Volodin called the PACE resolution on Crimea biased and offensive

The Chairman of the State Duma stressed that Russian parliamentarians “have the right to address the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation to introduce a ban on entry to Russia for a parliamentarian who prepared a report on the Crimean Tatars”. That issue will also be discussed at the meeting with the Speaker of the Icelandic Parliament on June 29

Vasilii Piskarev: NGOs held trainings in Prague how to collect confidential and classified information in former Soviet republics

Chairman of the Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs Vasillii Piskarev made addressed the participants of the coordination meeting of the heads of parliamentary delegations of the CSTO member states in the OSCE PA

Vasilii Piskarev presented materials on foreign interference at the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation

The materials include fragments of video records and screen shots of documents of some non-governmental organizations and media recognized in Russia as undesirable

Leonid Slutskiy: State Duma of the 7th convocation has done a lot, but there are still a lot of issues that should be resolved

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs said that “the State Duma’s five-year term was quite difficult for all of us, but it can be called quite successful in matters of parliamentary diplomacy.” In particular, he noted the fact that the members of the State Duma actively participated in the activities of inter-parliamentary organizations, primarily, the IPU and the OSCE PA

Members of the State Duma adopted a statement on escalation of the situation in Transnistria

Members of the State Duma condemned blockade and restrictive measures against Transnistria and stressed the need to unblock the negotiation process to resolve the Moldova-Transnistria conflict in the shortest possible time. The relevant statement was adopted at the plenary meeting on Wednesday, June 16

The 60th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Belarus and Russia was held today

Parliamentarians from Russia and Belarus discussed preparation of model legislation

New procedures of Russian language proficiency tests foreign citizens in the Russian Federation

The updated information about new unified procedures of Russian language proficiency tests, tests on the history of Russia and Russian legislation for foreign citizens

Viacheslav Volodin urged international organizations to put issue of protection of rights and freedoms of citizens in order

Chairman of the State Duma stressed the need to monitor by representatives of PACE and OSCE not only the actions of the Ukrainian authorities and analyze the results, but also to monitor the situations in other states

Members of the State Duma condemned decision of Ukrainian authorities not to recognize Russians as indigenous people

Members of the State Duma consider the legislative initiative of the President of Ukraine as “an insult to historical memory and blatant provocation aimed at escalating tensions and conflicts in Ukraine and abroad”

Viacheslav Volodin: President proposed a new agenda for Europe and the USA at SPIEF

A citizen is a priority on this agenda, as the Chairman of the State Duma told reporters following the events of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

Chairman of the State Duma: dialogue between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden is necessary

Viacheslav Volodin noted the role of the Russian President in ensuring global security and that his role was undeniable

Viacheslav Volodin confirmed possible interference of the Western states in the elections in Russia

"The United States will try to do everything possible to weaken the existing authorities in the Russian Federation, as the current situation is not good for the US authorities, because our country is developing and defending its interests,” stressed the Chairman of the State Duma

Viacheslav Volodin called Nord Stream 2 “economic project”

Chairman of the State Duma in an interview to RT on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum said that Russia, EU and the United States of America considered the Nord Stream 2 as economic project, but the US authorities understand that they would not stand that competition and started to use political tools

Chairman of the State Duma: Russia is developing, so there will be new accusations

Viacheslav Volodin in an interview to the TV show “Time will tell” on Channel One Russia said that Russian system should not only respond to the current challenges but also be ready to address new challenges that definitely would appear in the future

Viacheslav Volodin: Ukrainian authorities are systematically trying to destroy everything that the multinational Ukrainian people have

Chairman of the State Duma called actions of the Ukrainian authorities to change the streets names after Soviet heroes “attempts to hold onto power”