The Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin
Vyacheslav Victorovich
Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (Elected in a single mandate electoral district № 164 – Saratov district, Saratov Oblast)
, on behalf of the State Duma, invited
representatives of the foreign parliaments to participate in observing the parliamentary
elections which will be held in Russia on 17–19 September.
Special invitations were also sent to different inter-parliamentary organizations, such as PACE, OSCE PA, PABSEC, IAO, as well as the CSTO PA, IPA CIS and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia.