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10 unusual facts about State Duma


Alexander Rutskoy

Rutskoy was imprisoned in the Moscow Lefortovo prison until 26 February 1994, when he and other participants of both August 1991 and October 1993 crises, were granted amnesty by the new State Duma.

Astrakhan Declaration

The First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma International Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky assessed the declaration as "a small advancement in geopolitical sense", which in fact has "a great political significance in the case of Nagorno-Karabakh problem".

Not by Bread Alone

The advertisement campaign for the movie coincided with the 2005 State Duma by-elections there, and Govorukhin was a candidate from the governing United Russia party.

Pierre Giffard

In June 1906, he went back to Le Figaro and reported the first meeting of the Russian parliament, the Douma.

Romanian Orthodox Church

In December 2007 Russian Duma United Russia’s MP Konstantin Zatulin accused the Romanian Orthodox Church of “proselytism” against the Russian Orthodox Church in Moldova (and Transnistria) with the aim of annexing these territories into Romania.

Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University

In June 2005, under the support of Government of Russia, State Duma, Federation Council of Russia, Russian Rector's Union, the prize-winners of Golden Medal: European Quality competition in the nomination of Top 100 of Russian Universities were awarded.

Stabilization Fund of the Russian Federation

Russian Parliament (State Duma and Council of Federation).

Treaty on the Creation of the USSR

On March 15, 1996, the State Duma of the Russian Federation expressed its legal position in relation to the decision of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in "The denunciation of the Treaty establishing the Soviet Union" as the wrongful, unconstitutional act passed by a grave violation of the Constitution of the RSFSR, the norms of international law and then in force legislation.

Unitary enterprise

The legal status of unitary enterprises in Russia is defined in Federal Law No. 161-FZ "On State and Municipal Unitary Enterprises", which was approved by the State Duma on October 11, 2002 and signed by President Putin on November 14, 2002.

Zeki Velidi Togan

From 1912–1915 Velidi taught in the madrassa (school) in Kazan (Qasímiä), and from 1915 to 1917 he was a member of bureau, supporting Muslim deputies at the State Duma.


Kadyrovtsy

In April 2006, Mikhail Babich, another former Prime Minister of Chechnya and then Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Russian State Duma on Defense, called the armed formations of Kadyrov "an absolutely illegal structure".

Nikolai Budarin

Since 2007 he is a member of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, representing the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.

Nikolay Chkheidze

From 1907 to 1916, he was the member for Tiflis Gubernyia in the Russian State Duma and gained popularity as a spokesman for the Menshevik faction within the Russian Social Democratic Party.

Pavel Milyukov

When the First Russian Revolution started three years later, he founded the Constitutional Democratic party, represented it in the State Duma, and drafted the Vyborg Manifesto, calling for political freedom, reforms and passive resistance to the governmental policy.

Ruslan Vyacheslavovich Kurbanov

In 2011 was included in the list of candidates to Russian State Duma from Dagestani regional public organization “Dagestan civil union” along with other candidates like Ramazan Abdulatipov, Sergey Reshulsky etc.

Sergei Sobko

Sergei Vasiljevich Sobko (born 1949) is a Russian politician, Chairman of the Russian Christian-Social Movement and deputy of the State Duma representing the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

St George's Hall and Apollo Room of the Winter Palace

Most historically, it was the setting of the opening of the First State Duma by Nicholas II, in 1906.