State Duma News

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

Aleksandr Zhukov: Russian and German parliamentarians agreed on the need to give up the Russian and EU sanctions

In addition to the need to lift the EU sanctions against Russia, issues related to the Nord Stream-2 project were also discussed during the meeting of the delegation of the State Duma with members of the Bundestag, informed the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma

Members of the State Duma and the Bundestag commemorate those who died in the catastrophe at Sheremetyevo

The football match between the teams of parliamentarians of Russia and Germany began with a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the fire aboard the Moscow-Murmansk aircraft that occurred at Sheremetyevo Airport on May 5

Viacheslav Volodin invited his colleague Speaker of the National Council of Slovakia Andrej Danko to the Victory Parade in Moscow

Speaking at the plenary meeting of the State Duma Andrej Danko noted that the Slovak people had never questioned the role of the Red Army in the liberation of the country

Leonid Slutskiy met with participants of the Russian-Turkish Young Leaders Forum

At the round table “Current legislative agenda. View of the Young”, representatives of the State Duma and the Youth Parliament under the State Duma discussed inter-parliamentary interaction between Russia and Turkey

Leonid Slutskiy commented on Donald Trump's call to the Russian Federation and China to abandon nuclear weapons

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs believes that this appeal of the President of the United States can be interpreted “nothing else as a PR move”. He also reminded that Donald Trump is making contradictory statements, not for the first time