August 5, 2021 Chairman of the State Duma held a meeting with Speaker of the Joǵorku Keńesh of Kyrgyzstan Viacheslav Volodin and Talant Mamytov discussed issues of development of Russia-Kyrgyzstan inter-parliamentary relations
August 5, 2021 Viacheslav Volodin and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf discussed issues of Russia-Iran inter-parliamentary cooperation Chairman of the State Duma and Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran supported enhancement of cooperation between the two countries on the basis of friendship, trust and absence of double standards
August 5, 2021 Chairman of the State Duma conveyed greetings from the Russian President Vladimir Putin to the President of Iran Viacheslav Volodin and Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi discussed issues of development of Russia-Iran bilateral relations and inter-parliamentary cooperation
August 5, 2021 Remarks by members of the State Duma on the OSCE’s decision not to send observers for the elections in Russia The OSCE announced earlier that representatives of the organization would not observe the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Russia due to limitations on the election observation in the current epidemiological situation
August 5, 2021 Viacheslav Volodin to represent Russia at the inauguration of Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi Chairman of the State Duma will attend the inauguration ceremony of the President of Iran on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation
August 3, 2021 Viacheslav Volodin congratulated Alen Simonyan on his election as Speaker of the Parliament of Armenia Chairman of the State Duma wished him success in his work
August 2, 2021 Leonid Slutskiy: accusations against Russia of provocations against NATO are very destructive and dangerous words The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs said that the real intentions of the NATO member states to escalate the situation in the Black Sea region could be disguised by anti-Russian hysteria
July 28, 2021 Viacheslav Volodin invited foreign parliamentarians to observe elections in September The parliamentary elections in Russia will be held on 17-19 September 2021
July 28, 2021 Vasilii Piskarev: Washington is trying to disguise meddling in the elections in Russia by accusing Russia of meddling The Chairman of the Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs stressed that unlike the US administration, Russia provided concrete evidence of attempts of meddling in the elections in the Russian Federation
July 21, 2021 The State Duma Commission provided the CSTO PA with evidence of meddling of Western countries in Russia’s internal affairs Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs also provided information on the developed legislative measures that would help to address challenges and threats
July 19, 2021 Vasilii Piskarev sent appeals to the Bundestag and the OPCW Decision to appeal to the Bundestag and the OPCW was taken after the meeting of members of the State Duma Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs with representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation held at the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday, July 16
July 16, 2021 The State Duma Commission discussed with the Russian Foreign Ministry inconsistencies in the OPCW draft report on Navalny’s “poisoning” Following the meeting of members of the State Duma Commission on the Investigation of Foreign Interference in Russia's Internal Affairs with representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, there was a decision to appeal to the Bundestag and the OPCW
July 16, 2021 Viacheslav Volodin: we will not implement the ECHR judgment requiring recognition of same-sex marriages On July 16, the Council of the State Duma adopted a statement “On the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights requiring recognition of same-sex marriages in the Russian Federation”, as said the Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin
July 15, 2021 Remarks by members of the State Duma on proposal of the European Parliament not to recognize results of the elections to the State Duma The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament had proposed to the EU to prepare to withhold recognition of the results of the parliamentary elections in Russia, if Brussels decided that the elections were conducted in violation of international norms
