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Vicheslav Volodin urged to bring to justice US Senator Ben Cardin

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin instructed the Committee on International Affairs to consider the issue of bringing to justice US Senator Ben Cardin for defamation of member of the State Duma Vladislav Reznik

Russia and Italy will pay particular attention to the digital economy

“Today we are trying to find ways to solve the issues of creating a favorable environment together for further development of new technologies, and the current experience of Russia and Italy in this field will help us to take these steps together,” said Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin, opening the meeting of the High Russian-Italian Inter-Parliamentary Commission

Viacheslav Volodin named one of the priorities of relations between Russia and Italy

"Issues of humanitarian cooperation and cultural exchanges are one of the priorities of our mutual decisions," said the Chairman of the State Duma during a bilateral meeting with President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament Roberto Fico. The parties also discussed the development of inter-parliamentary interaction and economic cooperation

Viacheslav Volodin met with President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

The meeting participants exchanged views on the Russia-US relations, discussed the humanitarian projects, as well as the possibility of intensifying contacts between the State Duma and the US Congress

Viacheslav Volodin: Russian delegation will ask to assess the situation in Venezuela at the session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin announced this at a meeting with Executive Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez. The parties discussed the situation in the Republic, stressing the importance of observing the norms of international law and the principles of non-interference in the affairs of sovereign states

Viacheslav Volodin: Russian-Greek relations are based on strong traditions of friendship between nations

The Chairman of the State Duma declared this at a meeting with President of the New Democracy Party of the Hellenic Republic Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The parties discussed countries’ bilateral relations and spoke in favor of developing interaction in various fields, including within the parliamentary dimension

Viacheslav Volodin and Andrej Danko discussed new formats of dialogue between Russia and Slovakia

Separately, the Chairman of the State Duma and the Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic discussed the issue of harmonization of legislation in the digital sphere

Chairman of the State Duma: more countries should engage in the development of model laws in the sphere of the digital economy

Viacheslav Volodin stressed this following a bilateral meeting with Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic Andrej Danko, where the parties discussed different issues, including harmonization of legislation in the digital sphere

Congratulations of Viacheslav Volodin on the Diplomats’ Day

Viacheslav Volodin: people of Venezuela are the source of power, not the US State Department

The Chairman of the State Duma believes that the US State Department violates the rights of the people of Venezuela, claiming that the elected president, Nicolás Maduro, must resign from the position of the president and leave the country

Viacheslav Volodin: a bill restricting the observers’ rights at the elections of the President of Ukraine violates international law

According to the Chairman of the State Duma, the draft law of the Verkhovna Rada is discriminatory. This initiative violates the principles of democracy and also contradicts the principles and foundations of the OSCE

Viacheslav Volodin: by withdrawing from the INF Treaty, the USA made European countries a target

The United States of America has endangered world security, said the Chairman of the State Duma, commenting on the US withdrawal from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles

Chairman of the State Duma spoke about the need to return money paid to PACE by Russia

Viacheslav Volodin talked about contributions that Russia paid from 2014 to 2017 in an interview with the TV channel "Russia 24". The question of their return may be raised during negotiations with representatives of the Assembly

The Chairman of the State Duma and the President of the Italian Senate spoke in favor of developing relations between the two countries

Viacheslav Volodin and Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati discussed the inter-parliamentary interaction between Russia and Italy and the development of relations in the economic, cultural, educational and other spheres. "Inter-parliamentary cooperation in this regard can and should play a big role," said the President of the Senate of Italy

The Chairman of the State Duma ordered to appeal the US sanctions against Vladislav Reznik after he was cleared by a Spanish court

Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, was instructed to file a claim to the US Senator from Maryland, Ben Cardin, "to demand that he withdraw all initiatives and apologize to Vladislav Reznik"

Chairman of the State Duma received invitations to visit Cuba and Qatar

On January 21, at a meeting of the Council of the State Duma, Viacheslav Volodin informed about invitations from the heads of parliaments of Cuba and Qatar to pay working visits to these countries

Viacheslav Volodin believes that the US is connected to tensions and conflicts in PACE

Commenting on the decision not to send the Russian delegation to PACE session in 2019, the Chairman of the State Duma said that the United States does not want Europe to be united, therefore the US authorities inject difficulties and problems to the European home

The State Duma will not send delegation to PACE

The Russian Federation will also not make contributions to the budget of the Council of Europe in 2019. As Viacheslav Volodin said, these decisions are made only in the interests of Russian citizens

Viacheslav Volodin: the decision on the non-participation of the Russian delegation in PACE is taken in the interests of the citizens of our country

At tomorrow's plenary meeting, the State Duma will consider the issue of non-participation of the Russian delegation in the PACE session and non-payment of the contribution to the Council of Europe this year

The Committee on International Affairs suggests not to send a delegation to PACE in 2019

Chairman of the Committee Leonid Slutskiy announced this after its meeting. The issue of sending the delegation will be considered at a plenary meeting of the State Duma on Thursday, January 17