State Duma News

Viacheslav Volodin: it is important for Russia that Kyrgyzstan is a strong and sovereign state, a partner

Chairman of the State Duma held a meeting with Speaker of the Joǵorku Keńesh (Supreme Council), Acting President of the Kyrgyz Republic Talant Mamytov and stressed the necessity to develop relations between countries at the level of relevant parliamentary committees

Leonid Slutskiy: US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 should be a negative signal for Europe

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs is convinced that Washington’s unfair competition with Moscow hits the European companies

Member of the State Duma condemned detention of journalists cooperating with Sputnik and Baltnews in Latvia

Member of the Committee on International Affairs Elena Panina stressed that Latvian authorities acted as if Latvia and Russia were in a state of war, and at the same time they asked Russian side to halt the decline in cargo traffic volume and tried to increase export of food to the Russian Federation

Members of the State Duma to visit the Republic of Korea

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin told about that in an interview to the TV channel Rossiya 24. He also told about the programme of international activities and foreign trips of members of the State Duma in 2021

Viacheslav Volodin: priority issues of the CSTO PA are the convergence and harmonization of national legislations

Chairman of the State Duma, the CSTO PA Chairman Viacheslav Volodin said that at the joint meeting of the CSTO PA Council and the 13th CSTO PA plenary session held via videoconference today

Speech by Viacheslav Volodin at the meeting of the PA CSTO Council and the 13th PA CSTO plenary session

Greetings of the President of the Russian Federation to participants of the meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization

Ivan Melnikov addressed the IPA CIS Council meeting participants

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma told about the Russian experience in countering COVID-19 during the discussion of the report of the WHO Regional Director for Europe Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge "On the legislative support of measures taken in the CIS member states to counter the COVID-19 pandemic"

Viacheslav Volodin discussed with speakers of the parliaments of the CSTO member states preparations for the CSTO PA meeting, which will be held on November 30

During the conversation, the speakers discussed the issues of harmonization of national legislations of the CSTO member states, issues of legislative regulation of digital and economic security, information protection, issues of countering terrorism and extremism, organized crime, cyber challenges and threats

Aguila Saleh: Russia will play an important, pivotal role in the post-conflict reconstruction of Libya

Delegation of the House of Representatives of the State of Libya headed by the President Aguila Saleh visited the State Duma today

Aleksandr Zhukov held a meeting with Chairman of the Majlisi Milli of the Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan Rustami Emomali

Parliamentarians discussed issues of inter-parliamentary cooperation and agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation

Viacheslav Volodin had a telephone conversation with Chairman of the National Assembly of Tajikistan Rustami Emomali

Speakers discussed the possibility of holding the meeting of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in Dushanbe at the end of March in 2021

Leonid Slutskiy offered UN representatives to visit Crimea

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs recalled that the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly every year adopts a resolution on the alleged human rights violations in Crimea initiated by Ukraine

How can foreign citizens obtain e-visas to visit Russia?

A single e-visa will be introduced in Russia as of the beginning of 2021. You can find more information about e-visas below

Chairman of the State Duma Viachesalv Volodin will hold a meeting with PACE President Rik Daems

Relevant issues related to PACE activities will be discussed at the meeting