Lawmaker Pavel Krasheninnikov, co-chief of the constitutional working group, attends a session of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, to consider constitutional changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin, in Moscow, Russia. Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, proposed that the State Council be given the power to elect the president from several proposed candidates and use this procedure in the next presidential election in 2024.
