From left, background: Deputy State Duma Speaker Pyotr Tolstoi, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, First Deputy Speaker Ivan Melnikov; from left, foreground: Deputy Speaker, leader of the United Russia party group in parliament Vladimir Vasilyev and First Deputy Speaker Alexander Zhukov at the lower house plenary meeting.
