State Duma News

In August foreign diplomats will be asked to come to the State Duma to report on attempts to interfere in Russian elections

The head of the LDPR faction Vladimir Zhirinovskii called on "the harshest way" to respond to attempts of foreign interference in Russia's internal affairs

Sergei Mironov initiated an investigation of foreign interference in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation

The head of the Just Russia faction called to create a working group of the State Duma to analyze the facts of foreign interference in Russia's internal affairs, in particular, in the elections to be held in the fall. He proposed to convene an extraordinary meeting of the Council of the State Duma to address this issue

Aleksei Chepa compared the attitude of the western countries to politics with computer games

Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Aleksei Chepa noted that “30-40 years ago politicians had a different vision on the threats of nuclear war, but now many “don’t feel, don’t become aware of the threat to humanity coming from any mistake if some kind of minimal conflict is created”

Members of the Committee on International Affairs met with the delegation of Vietnam

The parties discussed issues of Russian-Vietnamese relations at the interstate and inter-party level and reaffirmed their intentions to hold bilateral meetings at all levels more often, as well as continue to build mutually beneficial relations and friendship between Russia and Vietnam

Leonid Slutskiy commented on the termination of the INF Treaty

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs noted that "the responsibility for breaking down the INF Treaty rests solely with the United States," and called "outright cynicism" attempts to transfer blame for the American unilateral withdrawal from the Treaty to Russia

State Duma treated the statement of colleagues from South Ossetia on the recognition of the genocide of South Ossetians in 1920 by Georgia with respect

Upon receipt of an appeal from the Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia, Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin instructed to submit it for consideration by the Council of the State Duma

Aleksandr Zhukov held a meeting with President of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly

Aleksandr Zhukov and María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés discussed the importance of enhanced cooperation between Russia and the United Nations to strengthen the system of international law and address together challenges and threats

Member of the State Duma commented on the decision of the UK regulator to fine RT news channel

The vague accusation of violating the principle of impartiality and objectivity in addition to a very serious extrajudicial fine clearly shows political engagement of the British supervisory authority, as said Chairman of the Committee on Information Policy, Technologies and Communications Leonid Levin

Leonid Slutskiy: Russia is ready for attempts to challenge its credentials in PACE

Russia is ready that at the January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2020, some countries will try to challenge the credentials of our delegation, and is working on it, said Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy. “We are ready for this, we are working with all political groups and most country delegations without exception,” he said

Petr Tolstoy named the main results of the spring session of the State Duma in the international sphere

The Deputy Chairman of the State Duma considers the Forum “Development of Parliamentarism”, the Russia’s return to PACE, the work on protection of the rights of citizens in an era of rapid development of the digital economy and the creation of a working group on improvement of legislation in the field of digital technologies to be the most important part of the State Duma’s spring session

Chairman of the State Duma: PACE should get rid of the stereotypes of the Cold War

Chairman of the State Duma stated this, summing up the results of the 2019 spring session of the State Duma. He urged to abandon the PACE monitoring system

State Duma demanded a public apology from the President of Georgia

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin demanded President of Georgia Salomé Zourabichvili to apologize for the anti-Russian rhetoric. He stated this during an interview with the TV channel "Rossiya 24"

Dmitrii Novikov commented on the United States decision to impose sanctions against Iran

“This is the preparation of US public opinion for possible aggressive actions against Iran. And this scenario is being consistently implemented, whether it is a provocation in the Gulf of Oman or these sanctions. Everything is too obvious,” noted the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs

Leonid Slutskiy: politicians who we can talk with appear in the Verkhovna Rada

Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, commented on the elections to the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, which took place the day before. In particular, he noted that "now all responsibility for the fate of the Minsk agreements, first of all, their political part, falls on the new authority"

Members of the State Duma expressed their willingness for thorough discussion of relations with Georgia

A meeting of the informal Russia-Georgia inter-parliamentary dialogue group was held in the State Duma, the meeting participants discussed inter-parliamentary cooperation in the political and humanitarian spheres, as well as the current state and prospects of relations between Moscow and Tbilisi