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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 announces that it will withdraw from the Council of Europe.
2022-03-10

Russian citizens head to polls to cast their votes in elections for heads and council members of federal subjects, among which an election for the Moscow City Duma, members and heads of local legislatures, and in by-elections to the State Duma.
2019-09-8

Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a law – voted by the State Duma on 22 May and approved by the State Council on 30 May – with countermeasures against actions of the United States and other "unfriendly" countries.
2018-06-4

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe suspends Russia's right to vote and take part in election observations as a consequence to its annexation of Crimea.
2014-04-10

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

Russia's lower parliament approves a bill creating a list of blacklisted websites, amid fears of censorship.
2012-07-11

The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament and ally of Vladimir Putin, Boris Gryzlov, resigns.
2011-12-14

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