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The State Duma votes unanimously to revoke Russia's ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
2023-10-17

Russian State Duma deputies approve the introduction of the concepts of mobilization, martial law, wartime and armed conflict, as well as punishment for desertion, into the Criminal Code.
2022-09-20

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

Russia's State Duma votes nearly unanimously to pass a bill ending the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights in the country, with only one lawmaker from the Communist Party opposing the bill. The bill must now be signed by President Vladimir Putin before becoming law.
2022-06-7

Russia's State Duma approves a bill removing the upper age limit for contractual service in the Russian Armed Forces. The bill will now head to President Vladimir Putin to be signed into law.
2022-05-25

The Russian State Duma passes a bill that will allow state prosecutors to close Russian bureaus of media outlets from countries that Russia deems "unfriendly". The bill will now need to be passed by the upper house and receive President Putin's signature.
2022-05-24

Russia imposes sanctions on 287 members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in response to sanctions on members of its State Duma. Senior cabinet ministers and House Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle are among those sanctioned.
2022-04-27

The draft law on making amendments to 14 articles of the Constitution of Russia was presented by the working group in only five days. The same day Russian President Vladimir Putin formally submitted a bill on amendments to the lower house of parliament.
2020-01-20

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 Russian Wikipedia goes blank for 24 hours in a protest over legislation before the State Duma that would allow the creation of a unified digital blacklist of all websites containing banned content. [http:--en.rian.ru-society-20120710-174509543.html (RIA Novosti)] (Russian Wikipedia)
2012-07-10