The state Duma has completed the most prolonged in the XXI century session
MOSCOW, 27 Jun — RIA Novosti. The state Duma on Friday completed the longest in the twenty-first century session, which lasted seven months.
“I want to note that the session that we are about to complete, the longest and the most intense since 1999,” said speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin at the final plenary session.
As recalled by a politician, for the solution of necessary tasks parliamentarians have increased the duration and number of meetings, extended the work until the end of July.
“As a result we were able not only to make important decisions on current issues and, in parallel, to consider those bills that lay in the State Duma since 1994,” — said Volodin.
He also thanked the deputies for their joint work.
Then members of Parliament traditionally had completed its work under the sounds of the Russian anthem. On Saturday deputies go on vacation and will gather in the state Duma on September 10.