Sentence examples for state duma from inspiring English sources

Thus, when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton branded Russia's recent State Duma elections as unfree and unfair — both preempting and exceeding the assessment of the O.S.C.E.

The Kremlin has cast Sunday's State Duma vote as a referendum on Putin.

Lugovoi is deputy head of the state Duma committee on security and countering corruption.

Russia will be represented by the chairman of the state duma.

He became a deputy in Russia's state duma for an ultra-nationalist party.

The Bolshevik deputies in the State Duma were strangers to any notion of reaching across the aisle.

All legislation must first pass the State Duma before being considered by the Federation Council.

Boris Yeltsin and the opposition, within the State Duma (lower house of parliament) and outside.

The Federation Council and the State Duma voted in support of those appeals.

The legislature, the State Duma, is only marginally more independent than the Supreme Soviet was under Leonid Brezhnev.

In the 2011 legislative elections, only four parties gained enough votes to be represented in the State Duma.