State Duma News

Leonid Slutskiy: Russia will raise the issue of violation of the rights of national minorities in Ukraine in PACE

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs noted that violation of the rights of national minorities in Ukraine requires the close attention of the international community. He thinks that “the PACE reaction will be an indicator of the true support for democracy and European values”

Vasilii Piskarev met with the Director of the Drug Control Agency under the President of Tajikistan

Vasilii Piskarev and Sherkhon Salimzoda agreed to continue bilateral contacts to improve the effectiveness of efforts of the two countries in combating drug trafficking

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma commented on the disruption of a speech of a Crimean deputy in the UN by Ukraine

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy called the actions of the Ukrainian delegation hooligan antics, and Deputy Chairwoman of the Committee on International Affairs Natalia Poklonskaia said that something unimaginable happened during his speech

Iaroslav Nilov talked about measures of social support in Russia after the ratification of the Convention No. 102

Chairman of the Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs took part in the Global Social Protection Week in Geneva. He noted that in Russia “constant dialogue with trade unions, employers, the government, as well as with other interested parties was established with the direct participation of ILO specialists”

Elena Panina about doping-scandal: to seek an explanation of what is happening in just sports sphere is naive

“The CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Travis Tygart, advocated the complete ban of Russian athletes from participation in the Olympic Games. The sanctions proposed by the WADA Compliance Committee are not enough for him, he needs to destroy the Russian sport, as a whole. This is the case when private interests are mixed with big politics,” said the member of the Committee on International Affairs

Sergei Krivonosov visits Jordan to develop cooperation in the tourism industry between the countries

Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture, Sport and Youth Affairs met with the Russian Ambassador to Jordan Gleb Desyatnikov in Amman and also held a bilateral meeting with the director of the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Amman Stanislav Simakov and learned more about the main activities of the Centre and its capabilities in the interests of promoting the tourism potential of Russia in Jordan

Members of the International Committee took part in a round table on the protection of the rights and interests of Russian citizens staying abroad

Members of the Committee on International Affairs discussed a situation with the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of Russian citizens staying abroad at the roundtable organized by the Federation Council

Crimea and Sevastopol are now displayed as the territory of Russia on Apple devices

Chairman of the Committee on Security and Corruption Control Vasilii Piskarev met with Daria Ermolina, who represents interests of Apple in Russia, on Wednesday, November 27

Ivan Melnikov: we have a lot of common tasks and we share the view on how to achieve them

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov gave a speech at the 50th-anniversary plenary meeting of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly in St. Petersburg. He noted that the participating countries can develop cooperation even further

Pavel Krasheninnikov met with a delegation of the Council of Europe

The Chairman of the Committee on State Building and Legislation held a bilateral meeting in the State Duma with a delegation of the Council of Europe led by the Head of the Justice and Legal Co-operation Department of the Council of Europe Sundberg Fredrik

Leonid Slutskiy: actions of the Estonian authorities set us back for almost 15 years

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs commented on the ratification of the Russian-Estonian State Border Treaty

Sergei Mironov: the Left is Germany’s best party for cooperation with Russia

On November 20, the head of the Just Russia faction, Sergei Mironov, met with a delegation of the German Left Party led by Dietmar Bartsch, co-chairman of the party faction in the Bundestag

Olga Epifanova: any form of international cooperation is useful for preserving the Arctic

Olga Epifanova, Deputy Chairwoman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, expressed such opinion at the Sixth Northern Dimension Parliamentary Forum in the Norwegian city of Bodø on Wednesday, November 20

Leonid Slutskiy met with Mexican Ambassador to Russia Norma Bertha Pensado Moreno

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mexico to the Russian Federation noted the intensification of bilateral inter-parliamentary cooperation, and also discussed the possibility of holding a joint meeting of the foreign policy committees of the State Duma and the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of Mexico

Sergei Neverov: cooperation of CIS parliamentarians will not allow falsifiers of history to divide our nationals

According to the head of the United Russia faction, this cooperation of parliamentarians also provides a unique opportunity to implement educational projects and humanitarian initiatives to protect memories of our common victories