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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

Leonid Slutsky and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran agreed to enhance development of cooperation

Meeting of Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was held at the State Duma. Meeting participants discussed issues of further work on ratification of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea

Vyacheslav Volodin: parliamentary dimension will give new impetus to development of Russia-Zimbabwe relations

Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin held a meeting with President of the Senate of the Republic of Zimbabwe Mabel Chinomona. Speakers discussed issues of strengthening inter-parliamentary ties between Russia and Zimbabwe

Statement of the State Duma of the Russian Federation ”On the Genocide of the Peoples of the Soviet Union by Germany and its Accomplices during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945“

The document was unanimously adopted by members of the State Duma at the plenary meeting on March 22

Vyacheslav Volodin: crimes of Nazis and their accomplices against Soviet people must receive legal assessment

Chairman of the State Duma stressed that it would be a warning to those who did not learn lessons of the past

Chairman of the State Duma supported proposal to rename again the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia after the Congolese politician Patrice Lumumba

Vyacheslav Volodin is convinced that returning the name will be symbolic in the light of the recent events in Ukraine: Patrice Lumumba, one of the symbols of the struggle of the people of Africa for independence, was killed because of his anti-Western position, defending the interests of the country

The outcome report of the Parliamentary Commission on the US Biological Laboratories to be considered on April 12

Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma Irina Yarovaya said that the Commission approved the outcome report at the meeting and it would be sent for further consideration to both chambers of the Federal Assembly

Irina Yarovaya: parliamentary investigation fully confirmed that the USA and NATO had created military facilities in Ukraine in the guise of biological laboratories

During the meeting of the Parliamentary Commission on Investigation into Activities of the US Biological Laboratories on the Territory of Ukraine, Co-Chair of the Commission, Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma told in detail how the USA had been systematically destroying the Ukrainian targeted biological defense programmе since 1991

Irina Yarovaya: the USA has been preparing to implement plan for military biological exploitation of post-Soviet countries and the whole world

Since 1991, the US Department of Defense used false pretext of eliminating weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet republics and started to implement the so-called Nunn–Lugar Act, as said Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma

Vyacheslav Volodin: Washington and its satellites are doing everything to turn “war to the last Ukrainian” into “war to the last European”

Chairman of the State Duma commented on the recent UK decision to send ammunition with depleted uranium to the Kiev regime

Irina Yarovaya: the USA actually uses each country as a military biological testing ground

Co-Chair of the Parliamentary Commission on Investigation into Activities of the US Biological Laboratories on the Territory of Ukraine Irina Yarovaya commented on the joint statement following Russia-China negotiations related to expressed concerns over the US military biological activities

Chairman of the State Duma instructed to propose effective measures to protect the country’s sovereignty and institution of the President

“President is a head of the state and all attacks on him are attacks on the country,” stressed Vyacheslav Volodin

Petr Tolstoy: the Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa” destroyed a myth of Russia’s isolation

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma commented on the outcomes of the Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa”

Vyacheslav Volodin and Dansa Kourouma agreed to enhance inter-parliamentary cooperation

Chairman of the State Duma and President of the National Council of the Transition of the Republic of Guinea noted importance of inter-parliamentary dialogue for development of Russia-Guinea relations

The plenary session “Russia-Africa in a Multipolar World” was held in Moscow

More than 40 official parliamentary delegation from almost all African countries took part in the Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa”. President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin addressed the Conference participants