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Petr Tolstoy: double standards undermine the PACE credibility

Members of the Russian delegation to PACE, headed by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Petr Tolstoy, held a meeting with the President of the Assembly Rik Daems. Russian parliamentarians drew attention to the inadmissibility of the use of double standards

Petr Tolstoy re-elected PACE Vice-President

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin told parliamentary journalists about that. He added that an attempt to organize debate on Navalny case at PACE had failed

Member of the State Duma called attempts of the European Parliament to stop Nord Stream 2 completion “loud shooting blanks”

Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutskiy said that calls of the European Parliament for immediate halt on Nord Stream 2 construction and new restrictive measures over Navalny arrest were just another form of interference and pressure on justice system

Members of the State Duma plan to participate in several international events during the spring plenary session

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin told parliamentary journalists about those plans

Members of the State Duma condemn actions of Ukrainian authorities against Russian-speaking citizens

Members of the State Duma considers it inadmissible to ban and persecute Russian and other languages used in Ukraine under the pretext of protecting the state Ukrainian language

Members of the State Duma condemn disproportionate use of force by police and double standards in Europe

Members of the State Duma urge parliamentarians and governments of European states “to demonstrate their readiness to follow unified approaches to assessing similar events that take place in their states and in foreign states, as well as to fully respect the right to peaceful assembly”

Members of the State Duma to raise the issue of oppression of Russian-speaking citizens in Ukraine at PACE

Viacheslav Volodin gave relevant instructions at the first plenary meeting on January 19

The State Duma to request international organizations to analyze the situation with freedom of speech in the United States

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin gave relevant instructions to the Committee on International Affairs. He is convinced that it is necessary “to do everything to wake international organizations from their slumber”

Viacheslav Volodin: the USA has no right to impose anything on other states

The Chairman of the State Duma addressed parliamentarians at the first plenary meeting of the spring plenary session and recalled that elections to the State Duma would be held in September, and prevention of foreign interference in the election campaign would be the priority issue

Issues of the first model legislative acts of the Union State were discussed by members of the Parliamentary Assembly of Belarus and Russia

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia held parliamentary hearings "Model lawmaking in the Union State"

Viacheslav Volodin: the US forces Europe to buy its vaccine against COVID-19

Chairman of the State Duma stated that in an interview to the TV channel Rossiya 24. He stressed that the vaccine market should be open so that any country that had developed a vaccine would be able to supply it to other states

Chairman of the State Duma: The US should learn from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan how to hold elections

Viacheslav Volodin expressed such opinion in the interview to the TV channel Rossiya 24

Viacheslav Volodin had a conversation with Speaker of the Joǵorku Keńesh of Kyrgyzstan Talant Mamytov

Chairman of the State Duma congratulated his colleague on the successful elections and referendum

Viacheslav Volodin congratulated Nurlan Nigmatulin on successful elections of members of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan

Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin had a conversation with Chairman of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin on January 12

Viacheslav Volodin: status of Russian language as language of interethnic communication is in the interests of the citizens of Moldova

Chairman of the State Duma held a meeting with the Speaker of the Parliament of Moldova Zinaida Greceanîi and stressed that the adoption of a law on the status of the Russian language as a language of interethnic communication in Moldova was important for economic, cultural and social cooperation between our countries