Deputy Chairman on Social Policy, representative of the legislative body of state power of the Republic of Buryatia Alexander Varfolomeev speaks during an extraordinary session of the Russian Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, in Moscow, Russia. Russian lawmakers adopted on March 31 a law on expanding powers of the government and its right to introduce a state of emergency in the country and approved penalties for violations of lockdown rules including, in extreme cases, jail terms of up to seven years. Editorial use only, no archive, no commercial use.