Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Pavel Krasheninnikov (left) Chairman of the State Duma Committee for State Building and Legislation before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Member of the State Duma Committee for State Construction and Legislation Otari Arshba (left) and Chairman of the State Duma Committee for State Construction and Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov (center) before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Left to right: Vladimir Novikov, member of the Russian State Duma Committee for Regional Policy and Problems of the North and Far East; Sergey Sopchuk, member of the State Duma Committee for Transport and Construction, and Anatoly Tikhomirov, member of the Russian State Duma Committee for Regional Policy and Problems of the North and Far East.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Deputy Chairperson of the State Duma Committee for Federal Structure and Local Governance Valentina Tereshkova (left) and First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Financial Market Igor Divinsky (right) before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. First Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for Control and Regulations Rizvan Kurbanov (right) before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Evgeny Revenko, member of the State Duma Committee for Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Left to right: Boris Paikin, First Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship; member of the State Duma Committee for State Building and Legislation Sergey Ivanov, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for Federal Structure and Local Governance Alexey Didenko and Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Yaroslav Nilov before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Left to right: member of the State Duma Committee for State Building and Legislation Sergey Ivanov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Federal Structure and Local Governances Alexey Didenko and Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Yaroslav Nilov before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Member of the State Duma Committee for Agriculture Svetlana Maximova (center) and member of the State Duma Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption Victoria Nikolaeva (right) before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Irek Zinnurov (center), member of the State Duma Committee for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots and member of the State Duma Committee for Federal Structure and Local Governance Alexander Sidorov (left) during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Evgeny Revenko, member of the State Duma Committee for Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Member of the State Duma Committee for Energy Alexander Yakubovsky (left) and member of the State Duma Committee for Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications Evgeny Revenko (right) before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Member of the State Duma Committee for Agriculture Alexander Vorobyov (right) and member of the State Duma Committee for Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship Alexander Maximov (second right) before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Right to left: Alexander Vorobyov, member of the State Duma Committee for Agriculture; Alexander Maximov, member of the State Duma Committee for Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship; and Mikhail Sheremet, member of the State Duma Committee for Energy before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russsian State Duma. Member of the Russian State Duma Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption Ivan Kvitka (left) and Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for Civil Society Development, Public and Religious Associations Natalia Kostenko (right) during the meeting

Plenary meeting of the Russsian State Duma. Left to right: Oleg Kolesnikov, member of the Russian State Duma Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption; Alexey Voevoda, member of the Russian State Duma Committee for Natural Resources, Property and Land Relations; and Maxim Kudryavtsev, member of the Russian State Duma Committee for Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Left to right: Deputy Chairmen of the State Duma of Russia Sergey Neverov, Igor Lebedev, Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin and First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Ivan Melnikov before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Deputies before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Evgeny Primakov (left), member of the State Duma Committee for International Affairs before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russsian State Duma. Genre photography. Flowers with a mourning ribbon at the deputy's desk of Zhores Alferov in the meeting room.

Plenary meeting of the Russsian State Duma. President of Italian Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico (center) and Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin (right) during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Left to right: President of Italian Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico, Deputy Chairmen of the State Duma of Russia Pyotr Tolstoy, Sergey Neverov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Alexander Zhukov and Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Left to right: member of the State Duma Committee for Transport and Construction Alexander Vasilyev, member of the State Duma Committee for Regional Policy and Problems of the North and the Far East Ivan Firyulin, member of the State Duma Committee for Federal Structure and Local Governance Leonid Cherkesov and deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for housing policy and communal services Vadim Bulavinov during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. President of Italian Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russsian State Duma. Vladimir Burmatov (center), Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection before the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russsian State Duma. Member of the State Duma Committee for Defense Alexander Terentyev (center) and member of the State Duma Committee for Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship Rifat Shaikhutdinov (right) during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. A minute of silence in memory of Zhores Alferov in the meeting room.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. A minute of silence in memory of Zhores Alferov in the meeting room.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Dmitry Morozov (center), chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for Health Protection, and Rafael Mardanshin, deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for State Building and Legislation during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. President of Italian Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. Galina Khovanskaya, Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Housing Policy and Communal Services during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. A minute of silence in memory of Zhores Alferov in the meeting room.

Plenary meeting of the Russsian State Duma. Leonid Levin, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee for Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russsian State Duma. Member of the State Duma Committee for Civil Society Development, Public and Religious Associations Maxim Ivanov (center) and member of the State Duma Committee for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Irek Zinnurov (right) during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russsian State Duma. President of Italian Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico (center) and Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin (right) during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russsian State Duma. President of Italian Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico (center) and Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin (right) during the meeting.

Plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma. President of Italian Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico (left) and Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin (right) during the meeting.