State Duma News

Petr Tolstoy: level of protection of religious rights and rights of national minorities in Russia is much higher than the standards of the Council of Europe

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, PACE Vice-President and head of the Russian delegation to the Assembly said that the practice of double standards could lead to a new crisis between Russia and the Council of Europe

Viacheslav Volodin: European states need to stop using double standards and start saving lives

The Chairman of the State Duma expressed disagreement with the decision of the PACE Standing Committee. “European countries need to stop using double standards and start saving lives. The European parliamentarians do not care about the large number of victims of the pandemic and the battered economies,” said Viacheslav Volodin

Petr Tolstoy: language discrimination is disgrace for modern Europe

PACE prefers not to notice violations of the rights of millions of Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine, and the reaction Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Dunja Mijatović was of a general nature, just declarative, as said the head of the Russian delegation to PACE, Vice-President of the Assembly, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy

The Bundestag members supported the idea of maintaining a constructive Russia-Germany dialogue

On October 8, the Chairman of the State Duma Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia’s Internal Affairs Vasilii Piskarev held a meeting via videconference with the Chairman of the German-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Group of the German Bundestag Robby Schlund

Member of the State Duma commented on the ban on St. George ribbons in Latvia

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy said that the members of the State Duma strongly condemn such decisions. "Unfortunately, the Baltic counterparts continue to “trade Russophobic ideas” and to settle historical scores by criminal means,” he said

Viacheslav Volodin and Viktor Medvedchuk discussed issue of enhancing inter-parliamentary cooperation within the Normandy Format

Meeting of the Chairman of the State Duma and the Chairman of the Political Council of the political party "Opposition Platform - For Life", the Chairman of the Inter-Factional Parliamentary Association of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ”Inter-Parliamentary Dialogue for Peace: Ukraine-Russia-Germany-France” was held on October 6 at the State Duma

Members of the State Duma called for immediate ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh

Parliamentarians also urged the sides to conflict to return to the negotiation process in the shortest possible time and expressed their readiness to offer mediation assistance in stabilizing the situation

Members of the State Duma prepared a statement on the need for an immediate ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region

Parliamentarians also urged to prevent the escalation of confrontation in the region

Member of the State Duma commented on the statement by President of Russia on a program for restoring the Russia-US cooperation in the field of international information security

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy stressed that the statement contained Russia’s proposals to resolve any issues in the field of cyber security through negotiations and move away from the practice of unfounded and unsubstantiated accusations

The State Duma Commission sent a letter to President of the German Bundestag on parliamentary control over the investigation of Navalny case

Members of the State Duma proposed to create a joint commission or a working group which would consist of members of the Bundestag and the State Duma to exercise parliamentary control over the investigation of the incident with Alexey Navalny

The State Duma Commission proposed German parliamentarians to conduct a joint investigation of the incident with Alexey Navalny

Chairman of the Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia’s Internal Affairs Vasilii Piskarev said that the situation around the blogger and the campaign launched by Western countries had the goal to disrupt our economy and sever ties with friendly countries

Viacheslav Volodin held a meeting with Chairwoman of the Parliament of Azerbaijan Sahiba Gafarova

The Speakers discussed the issues of enhancement of bilateral inter-parliamentary cooperation, interaction at international inter-parliamentary platforms and approximation of national legislations

Communiqué on the outcome of the meeting of the Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin and the Chairwoman of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan Sahiba Gafarova

Aleksei Gordeev: it is necessary to strengthen inter-parliamentary cooperation between Russia and Mongolia

The Deputy Chairman of the State Duma noted the need to enhance cooperation between the State Duma and the State Great Khural. "Russia-Mongolia cooperation has great potential and good development perspectives, including in the parliamentary framework," said Aleksei Gordeev

Viacheslav Volodin commented on the resolution of the European Parliament on the situation in Belarus

The Chairman of the State Duma is convinced that, the resolution of the European Parliament aimed at interference in the internal affairs of Belarus