Sources: CBS News
Russian defence minister Andrey Belousov and State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin visit Pyongyang, North Korea, inaugurating a memorial to North Korean troops who died fighting against Ukraine and negotiating a new defense cooperation agreement set to run until 2031. 2026-04-26
The Russian Federation Council unanimously approves the State Duma's bill to revoke Russia's membership in the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. 2023-10-25
The State Duma votes unanimously to revoke Russia's ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. 2023-10-17
Lawmakers in the State Duma vote to withdraw Russia from 21 conventions of the Council of Europe. 2023-02-16
The State Duma of Russia reports that a referendum on the accession of the Luhansk People's Republic to Russia will be held in the near future. 2022-09-19
Sergey Mironov, leader of the Russian opposition party, A Just Russia, submits a bill to the State Duma on holding to account anyone who denies that the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces was a "genocide". 2015-11-25
Bills banning homosexual "propaganda" pass through Russia's parliament; gay people are hit with eggs by anti-gay extremists and then dragged off by police near the Duma. 2013-06-11
The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament and ally of Vladimir Putin, Boris Gryzlov, resigns. 2011-12-14
Voters in Russia go to the polls for an election for the State Duma. 2011-12-4
Russia ratifies key European Court of Human Rights reform. Russia was the last of the 47 Council of Europe member-states to ratify Protocol 14. 2010-01-15