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Lawmakers in the State Duma vote to withdraw Russia from 21 conventions of the Council of Europe.
2023-02-16

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

The State Duma of Russia passes a bill to officially recognise the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in Eastern Ukraine as independent states. The bill has been sent to President Vladimir Putin for final approval.
2022-02-15

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

Russia announces it has completed the destruction of all of its chemical weapons under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
2017-09-27

Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends the 2000 treaty with the United States on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium (Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement) ru.
2016-10-3

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