State Duma News

CSTO PA Council will discuss Armenia’s initiative to hold a meeting of the organization in Yerevan

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin stated this during a bilateral meeting with President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan

Chairman of the State Duma called for the intensification of cooperation with Kyrgyzstan on educational projects

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin called for increased interaction with Kyrgyzstan in the area of education, pointing out that Russia is ready to work on the issues of specialists training and preparation of Russian language textbooks for citizens of the republic coming to the country

Viacheslav Volodin: trade between Russia and Kyrgyzstan grew by 17 percent

The Chairman of the State Duma announced this at a meeting with Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz Republic Dastan Jumabekov in Bishkek on May 19

Delegation of the State Duma headed by Viacheslav Volodin arrived in Kyrgyzstan

Parliamentarians will participate in the events of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a number of bilateral meetings of the Chairman of the State Duma is planned

Viacheslav Volodin: we will decide on the application to PACE based on the interests of our citizens and our country

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin commented on the statement of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the equality of all delegations to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Head of the International Committee commented on the statement of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs, believes that the statement of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe "does not yet contain a major breakthrough in terms of resolving the crisis in Russia’s interaction with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"

Member of the State Duma commented on the new Ukrainian sanctions against Russia

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy doubts that the imposition of new sanctions by Ukraine will seriously affect Russian economy, and believes that “the outgoing Ukrainian government makes it worse only for its own country”

Sergei Zhelezniak: the United States is trying in vain to continue to act as a justice of the peace

A member of the Committee on International Affairs stressed that the dialogue between Russia and the United States is possible and necessary. The parliamentarian noted that Russia shows its willingness to discuss any, even the most urgent issues, including issues of bilateral cooperation and issues of international concern

Dmitrii Belik: Ukrainian authorities banned their people to speak

Member of the United Russia faction, member of the Committee on Control and Regulations, believes that the adoption of a law prohibiting the use of the Russian language in Ukraine is another attack on people's memory and values that had been created by the Ukrainian, Russian, and earlier Soviet people

Viacheslav Volodin met with Speaker of the Parliament of Slovakia Andrej Danko

The Chairman of the State Duma and the Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic noted the dynamic development of relations between the two countries and the need for more effective cooperation between the parliaments of Russia and Slovakia

In Berlin members of the State Duma honored the memory of the fallen Soviet soldiers

Russian parliamentarians together with colleagues from the German Bundestag laid flowers and wreaths at the monument to the Soldier-Liberator, honoring the memory of those who died in World War II

Chairman of the State Duma and President of the National Assembly of Armenia will hold the first bilateral meeting at the CSTO PA

On May 19, on the sidelines of the Parliamentary Assembly in Bishkek, a series of bilateral meetings between Viacheslav Volodin and the heads of parliaments of the CSTO member states will be held

Russian and German parliamentarians discussed risks to Europe’s sustainable energy supply

Pavel Zavalnyi, Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma on Energy, and Klaus Ernst, Chairman of the Committee of the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany on Economic Affairs and Energy, discussed the issues of energy security of Europe and, in particular, Germany, as well as the development of the Nord Stream 2 project

The football team of the State Duma beat the Bundestag members

Russian parliamentarians beat 2:1 their German counterparts. First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Aleksandr Zhukov noted that the game was very difficult, the opponent was much stronger than the last time in Moscow but the team of the State Duma managed to win being very determined

Pavel Zavalnyi discussed the issue of Ukrainian gas transit with the Bundestag members

According to the Chairman of the Committee on Energy, the Russian side is counting on the support of German colleagues during the tripartite negotiations on Ukrainian gas transit scheduled for May