Secretary General of the Council of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA) and Head of the Secretariat of the IPA CIS Council, Dmitry Kobitsky, speaks to the press during a monitoring mission of the Azerbaijani snap presidential election at polling station No 2 of the Sabail electoral district No 7 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group includes accredited deputies and senators from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.07.02.2024#8613687
Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan and Coordinator of the group of international observers from the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA) of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) for the extraordinary presidential election in Azerbaijan, Zhakyp Asanov talks to journalists during a monitoring at polling station No 2 of Sabail electoral district No 7 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group includes accredited deputies and senators from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.07.02.2024#8613689
Secretary General of the Council of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA) and Head of the Secretariat of the IPA CIS Council, Dmitry Kobitsky, right, and IPA CIS observers monitor the Azerbaijani snap presidential election at polling station No 2 of the Sabail electoral district No 7 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group includes accredited deputies and senators from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.07.02.2024#8613685
Secretary General of the Council of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA) and Head of the Secretariat of the IPA CIS Council, Dmitry Kobitsky, right, and IPA CIS observers monitor the Azerbaijani snap presidential election at polling station No 2 of the Sabail electoral district No 7 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group includes accredited deputies and senators from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.07.02.2024#8613688
Secretary General of the Council of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA) and Head of the Secretariat of the IPA CIS Council, Dmitry Kobitsky, right, and IPA CIS observers monitor the Azerbaijani snap presidential election at polling station No 2 of the Sabail electoral district No 7 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group includes accredited deputies and senators from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.07.02.2024#8613693
Secretary General of the Council of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA) and Head of the Secretariat of the IPA CIS Council, Dmitry Kobitsky, second left, and Deputy Secretary General of the IPA CIS Council - Plenipotentiary Representative of the Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic Aydin Jafarov, second right, and IPA CIS observers monitor the Azerbaijani snap presidential election at polling station in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group includes accredited deputies and senators from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.07.02.2024#8613708
Secretary General of the IPA CIS Council Dmitry Kobitsky, center, and IPA CIS observers monitor the Azerbaijani snap presidential election at polling station No 2 of the Sabail electoral district No 7 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group includes accredited deputies and senators from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.07.02.2024#8613692
Secretary General of the IPA CIS Council Dmitry Kobitsky, left, and IPA CIS observers monitor the Azerbaijani snap presidential election at polling station No 2 of the Sabail electoral district No 7 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group includes accredited deputies and senators from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.07.02.2024#8613691
Secretary General of the IPA CIS Council Dmitry Kobitsky, second left, and IPA CIS observers monitor the Azerbaijani snap presidential election at polling station No 2 of the Sabail electoral district No 7 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group includes accredited deputies and senators from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.07.02.2024#8613690
Secretary General of the Council of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA) and Head of the Secretariat of the IPA CIS Council, Dmitry Kobitsky, left, is seen during a monitoring mission of the Azerbaijani snap presidential election at polling station No 2 of the Sabail electoral district No 7 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The group includes accredited deputies and senators from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.07.02.2024#8613686
The inaugural session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS member nations marking its 25th anniversary at the Tavrichesky Palace in St. Petersburg27.03.2017#3058051
The inaugural session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS member nations marking its 25th anniversary at the Tavrichesky Palace in St. Petersburg27.03.2017#3058052
Pedro Agramunt, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is seen here at the Tavrichesky Palace in St. Petersburg prior to the inaugural session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS member nations marking its 25th anniversary.27.03.2017#3058059
Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairperson of the State Duma, is seen here at the Tavrichesky Palace in St. Petersburg prior to a session of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly marking its 25th anniversary.27.03.2017#3058066
Pedro Agramunt, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), is seen here at the Tavrichesky Palace in St. Petersburg prior to the inaugural session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS member nations marking its 25th anniversary.27.03.2017#3058063
Ludmila Narusova, a member of the Federation Council, is seen here at the Tavrichesky Palace in St. Petersburg prior to the inaugural session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS member nations marking its 25th anniversary.27.03.2017#3058058
Bishop Nazariy of Kronshtadt is seen here at the Tavrichesky Palace in St. Petersburg prior to the inaugural session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS member nations marking its 25th anniversary.27.03.2017#3058057
Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Federation Council, is seen here at the Tavrichesky Palace in St. Petersburg prior to the inaugural session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS member nations marking its 25th anniversary.27.03.2017#3058056
Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Federation Council, is seen here at the Tavrichesky Palace in St. Petersburg prior to the inaugural session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS member nations marking its 25th anniversary.27.03.2017#3058055
Oleg Niloov, center, deputy head of the Fair Russia Party's deputies at the State Duma, is seen here at the Tavrichesky Palace in St. Petersburg prior to the inaugural session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS member nations marking its 25th anniversary.27.03.2017#3058054
Viktor Cherkesov, first deputy chairman, State Duma Committee on Security and Countering Corruption, is seen here at the Tavrichesky Palace in St. Petersburg prior to the inaugural session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS member nations marking its 25th anniversary.27.03.2017#3058053
The Russian State Duma of the third convocation.Chairman of the State Duma Gennady Seleznyov meets with a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), headed by a member of the House of Lords of the British Parliament, Co-Chair of the Working Group on Chechnya, Lord Frank Judd (second left).21.01.2003#2793423
Delegation of the Congress of Deputies of Spain's Cortes Generales (parliament) headed by Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party Jose Maria Benegas. Kremlin. November 26-27, 1991. Meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.26.11.1991#2897210
Nikolajs Neilands, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, People's Deputy of the USSR, during a roundtable meeting on ethnic issues in the Baltic states.01.11.1989#6562760
The USSR Supreme Soviet Committee on International Affairs. Members of the committee meet with a delegation from the foreign policy commission of the Finnish parliament.26.10.1989#6616579
A Cameroon parliamentary delegation visits the USSR led by Chair of the Cameroon National Assembly Lawrence Fonka Shang. A meeting with Anatoly Lukyanov, candidate member of the Politburo of the Communist Party Central Committee, First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Supreme Council.16.10.1989#6551993
A Cameroon parliamentary delegation visits the USSR led by Chair of the Cameroon National Assembly Lawrence Fonka Shang. A meeting with Anatoly Lukyanov, candidate member of the Politburo of the Communist Party Central Committee, First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Supreme Council (third on the left).16.10.1989#6551987
Federal Republic of Germany Bundesrat Speaker Bjorn Engholm, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein State, visits the Soviet Union. He is seen here meeting with Yevgeny Primakov, a Candidate Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Speaker of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) of the USSR.26.09.1989#6549190
July 29-30, 1989. The first conference of Inter-Regional Deputy Group in Moscow at the Central Cinema House. Members of this democratic group took part in Congresses of People's Deputies of the USSR and became the first legal Soviet parliamentary opposition. Photo: Deputy and journalist Anna Yaroshinskaya, a member of the Inter-Regional Deputy Group.30.07.1989#8120981
July 29-30, 1989. The first conference of Inter-Regional Deputy Group in Moscow at the Central Cinema House. Members of this democratic group took part in Congresses of People's Deputies of the USSR and became the first legal Soviet parliamentary opposition.02.07.1989#8120986
A Finnish parliament delegation led by Matti Ahde visits the Soviet Union. Reception at the USSR Supreme Council. Finnish lawmarkers were greeted at the USSR Supreme Council by First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Supreme Council Presidium Pyotr Demichev, third right. Meeting participants included Chairman of the USSR SUpreme Council Union Council Lev Tolkunov, fourth right, and Valentina Tereshkova, Chairperson of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Links with Foreign Countries, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, second right.11.04.1988#5729984
A Finnish parliament delegation led by Matti Ahde, third right, visits the Soviet Union. Finnish lawmarkers were greeted at the USSR Supreme Council by First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Supreme Council Presidium Pyotr Demichev, third left. Meeting participants included Chairman of the USSR SUpreme Council Union Council Lev Tolkunov, second left, and Valentina Tereshkova, Chairperson of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Links with Foreign Countries, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.11.04.1988#5729981
Members of the West German Bundestag representing the German Green Party visit the Soviet Union. German parliament members during a wreath- and flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall.28.10.1983#6631329
Members of the West German Bundestag representing the German Green Party visit the Soviet Union. German parliament members during a wreath- and flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall.28.10.1983#6631324
A delegation from the Hungarian People's Republic visit the Soviet Union, September 28 - October 5, 1983. Chairman of the Hungarian National Assembly Antal Apro, second left, at the Kirov First Moscow Clock Company.04.10.1983#6631325
A delegation from the Hungarian People's Republic visit the Soviet Union, September 28 - October 5, 1983. Chairman of the Hungarian National Assembly Antal Apro, center, meets with First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet Vasily Kuznetsov.04.10.1983#6631321
A delegation from the Hungarian People's Republic visit the Soviet Union, September 28 - October 5, 1983. Chairman of the Hungarian National Assembly Antal Apro, center, lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall.28.09.1983#6631330
A delegation of the National People's Assembly of Algeria visits the USSR. Parliamentarians from the Algerian People's Democratic Republic on a tour in the Faceted Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin.13.04.1981#8338507
A delegation of the National People's Assembly of Algeria visits the USSR. During a meeting at the House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries (now the Reception House of the Government of the Russian Federation). Parliamentarians from the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria were received by Zinaida Kruglova, Chairperson of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Far left: Vice-President of the USSR-Algeria Friendship Society, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Andriyan Nikolayev.12.04.1981#8338104
A delegation of the National People's Assembly of Algeria visits the USSR. Parliamentarians from the Algerian People's Democratic Republic are seen on a walk in Moscow.12.04.1981#8338501
A parliamentary delegation of Madagascar in Moscow. A meeting of the delegation members with the Chair of the Council of the Union of the USSR Supreme Soviet Alexei Shitikov (center, sitting).05.09.1979#8230472
An Indonesian parliamentary delegation visits the USSR. Laying a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall.29.06.1979#8170282
An Indonesian parliamentary delegation visits the USSR. Laying a wreath at the Lenin Mausoleum.29.06.1979#8170281
Nepal's parliamentary delegation visits the Soviet Union. Second right: Ram Hari Sharma, head of the delegation and Chair of the National Panchayat, and member of the Nepalese National Panchayat, visit the Great Patriotic War Museum in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.15.01.1979#8149253
A parliamentary delegation of Nepal visits the USSR. A meeting and conversation between the delegation of the National Panchayat of Nepal with the Chair of the Union Council of the USSR Supreme Soviet Alexei Shitikov (first from the left). Taking part in the conversation: head of the Nepalese delegation, Chair of the National Panchayat Ram Hari Sharma (opposite Shitikov in dark glasses) and deputies of the National Panchayat of Nepal.13.01.1979#8147015
An Indian parliamentary delegation visits Uzbekistan. Speaker of the People's Chamber of India Bali Ram Bhagat, third from right, and Chair of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan Mufti Ziyauddinhan ibn Eshon Babakhan (near him on the left) visiting the library of the Spiritual Administration in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.27.04.1976#6747772
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev's visit to the US. Leonid Brezhnev's meeting with members of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, headed by James William Fulbright, left from Brezhnev. The USSR Embassy in Washington.21.06.1973#5982267
A delegation of the Philippine Congress in the Cosmos pavilion at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the Soviet Union (now the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy).15.08.1970#5976418
A parliamentary delegation from Cameroon visits the Soviet Union. Photo: Delegation members are staying at the Lenin Memorial Study in the Moscow Kremlin.01.07.1969#6116525
Members of a Cambodian parliamentary delegation visit Piskaryovo memorial cemetery in Leningrad, the Soviet Union.08.08.1967#6129969
A Cambodian parliamentary delegation visits the USSR. Chairman of the Cambodian National Assembly Chau Sen Cocsal and his escort at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall.16.07.1967#6133827
A Cambodian parliamentary delegation visits the USSR. During their visit, Cambodian parliamentaries traveled to the Kazakh SSR. Chairman of the Cambodian National Assembly Chau Sen Cocsal and escort at a children's hospital in Alma-Ata.01.07.1967#6138695
A Cambodian parliament delegation visits the USSR. Speakerr oft he National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia Chau Sen Koksal presents a memorial badge to Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Council of the USSR Justas Paleckis.01.07.1967#6139193
A Cambodian parliament delegation visits the USSR. Speakerr oft he National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia Chau Sen Koksal meet with Soviet international journalist Yury Zhukov, right, during a reception at the Cambodian Embassy in Moscow. Left: Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Council of the USSR Justas Paleckis.01.07.1967#6139192
A Cambodian parliamentary delegation visits the USSR. Chairman of the Cambodian National Assembly Chau Sen Cocsal lays a wreath to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square.01.07.1967#6133828
A Cambodian parliamentary delegation visits USSR. Photo: members of the Cambodian Parliament on a guided tour of the Moscow Kremlin's Armory.01.07.1967#6140313
A Cambodian parliament delegation visits the USSR. Speakerr oft he National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia Chau Sen Koksal meets with Soviet friends during a reception at the Cambodian Embassy in Moscow.01.07.1967#6140312
A visit by a parliamentary delegation of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the USSR. Chairman of the National Assembly of Cambodia Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum at the reception hosted by Chairman of the Soviet of the Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Justas Paleckis, 2nd left, at the Moscow Kremlin.01.07.1967#6181799
A parliamentary delegation from the Kingdom of Cambodia visits the Soviet Union. From left: President of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia Chau Sen Kocsal Chhum and Chairman of the Council of Nationalities of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) Justas Paleckis take a guided tour of the Grand Kremlin Palace.01.07.1967#6181794
A parliamentary delegation from the Kingdom of Cambodia visits the Soviet Union. Photo: President of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia Chau Sen Kocsal Chhum, center, and delegation members take a guided tour of the Grand Kremlin Palace.01.07.1967#6181791