Chairman

Chairman of the State Duma: Russia is not a rogue state

Vyacheslav Volodin said that Russia had found new markets and had many friends and counterparts in the world

Vyacheslav Volodin: citizens of Ukraine to make a decision on their country’s future borders

Chairman of the State Duma in his interview to Komsomolskaya Pravda noted the importance of making Ukraine a peaceful, sovereign and democratic state

Vyacheslav Volodin had a conversation with Alen Simonyan

Vyacheslav Volodin: nationalism is Kiev’s state ideology

Chairman of the State Duma is convinced that if there were no decisions taken by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, military actions would have been conducted in Russia

Vyacheslav Volodin: Ukraine’s disintegration process started in 2014 after a coup d'etat

More than 5 million people had recently left the country, as noted Chairman of the State Duma

Vyacheslav Volodin: leaders of the states who decided to supply weapons to Ukraine should be held accountable

According to Chairman of the State Duma, by supplying weapons to Ukraine, they could be considered as parties to the conflict

Vyacheslav Volodin: Zelensky is Washington’s puppet

According to Chairman of the State Duma, the Western states will continue to pump up Ukraine with weapons, Europe considers Ukrainians as expendables

Vyacheslav Volodin: members of the State Duma support decision to halt gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland

“The same decisions should be made on other unfriendly countries”, stressed Chairman of the State Duma

Vyacheslav Volodin: if Russia waged a full-scale war in Ukraine, it would have already been ended

Chairman of the State Duma stressed that Russian soldiers and officers “do not kill civilians, but liberate them, sacrificing their lives”

Vyacheslav Volodin held a meeting with Nikol Pashinyan

That was the first visit of the Prime Minister of Armenia to the State Duma

Vyacheslav Volodin: European sanctions against Russia are illegal

Chairman of the State Duma stressed that Russia would asses the damage of the sanctions and their impact on the Russian economy, so the unfriendly states would have to compensate

Vyacheslav Volodin: by making such statements, Zelensky wants to win time asking NATO for military assistance

Chairman of the State Duma is convinced that the President of Ukraine should withdraw troops from the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and record commitments on the recognition of Crimea and the non-bloc status of Ukraine, as well as on denazification and demilitarization of the country

Vyacheslav Volodin: the US sanctions policy is the beginning of the end of the dollar monopoly in the world

Chairman of the State Duma stressed that that the decision taken by the Russian President for unfriendly states to pay for gas in rubles, as well as the current discussion of expanding the list of goods that could be also sold in rubles, drove the US Department of the Treasury to hysteria

Vyacheslav Volodin proposed to send information of the Committee on Defence about Bucha’s provocation to the foreign parliaments

Chairman of the Committee on Defence Andrey Kartapolov informed members of the State Duma in detail about the videos fabricated by the Ukrainian side about the crimes allegedly committed by Russian troops in Bucha

Vyacheslav Volodin: the situation in Bucha is a provocation aimed at discrediting Russia

According to Chairman of the State Duma, the NATO member states do not need investigations as they have already found those to blame

Vyacheslav Volodin congratulated Aleksandar Vučić on his re-election as President of Serbia

The Council of the State Duma approved decision on creation of interparliamentary groups on interaction with parliaments of DPR and LPR

Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said that those groups would be coordinated by Dmitry Sablin and Victor Vodolatsky

The Commission on parliamentary investigation into the activities of biological laboratories in Ukraine created working groups

In accordance with the law, those working groups will perform several activities of the Commission on such issues related to medical and biological analysis, international law, security, scientific and information analysis

Information on the activities of the Parliamentary Commission on investigation into the activities of biological laboratories in Ukraine to be public

Co-Chair of the Commission, Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma Irina Yarovaya said at the first meeting of the Commission that the activities of the Commission would help to produce a dossier which would be sent to the Russian President, the Federal Assembly, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Investigative Committee of Russia

Vyacheslav Volodin: Europe has all opportunities to pay for Russian gas supplies in rubles

Chairman of the State Duma stressed that Western politicians should stop looking for excuses not to pay in rubles