State Duma

State Duma

Государственная дума

Gosudarstvennaya duma
8th State Duma
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
History
Established12 December 1993; 30 years ago (1993-12-12)
Preceded bySoviet of the Republic
Constitutional Conference of Russia
Leadership
Vyacheslav Volodin, United Russia
since 5 October 2016
Alexander Zhukov, United Russia
since 5 October 2016
Ivan Melnikov, Communist Party
since 5 October 2016
Structure
Seats450
Political groups
Government (347)
  United Russia (324)
  LDPR (23)
  Civic Platform (1)
  Rodina (1)

Other parties (102)

  CPRF (57)
  DPA (1)[1]
  DZNS (1)[1]
  Left Front (1)[1]
  SRZP (28)
  New People (16)[a]
  Independent (1)

Vacant seats (1)

  Vacant seat (1)
Length of term
5 years
Elections
Parallel voting
First election
12 December 1993
Last election
17–19 September 2021
Meeting place
State Duma building
1 Okhotny Ryad Street, Moscow
Website
duma.gov.ru/en/

The State Duma[b] is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia. It was established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993.

The Duma headquarters are located in central Moscow, a few steps from Manege Square. Its members are referred to as deputies. The State Duma replaced the Supreme Soviet as a result of the new constitution introduced by Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, and approved in a nationwide referendum.

In the 2007 and 2011 Russian legislative elections a full party-list proportional representation with 7% electoral threshold system was used, but this was subsequently repealed. The legislature's term length was initially 2 years in the 1993–1995 elections period, and 4 years in 1999–2007 elections period; since the 2011 elections the term length is 5 years.

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  3. ^ https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/duma [bare URL]


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