From left: Alexander Torshin, representative of the executive body of the Republic of Mary El, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, Svetlana Orlova, representative of the executive body of the Kemerovo Region, and Andrei Klishas, head of the Federation Council Committee for Constitutional Legislation, Judicial and Legal Affairs and the Development of Civil Society, at a meeting of the Federation Council.

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From left: Andrei Klishas, head of the Federation Council Committee for Constitutional Legislation, Judicial and Legal Affairs and the Development of Civil Society, Pavel Krasheninnikov, chairman of the State Duma Committee for Civil, Criminal, Arbitral and Procedural Law, Presidential Adviser Veniamin Yakovlev and Artur Chulingarov, a member of the Federation Council Committee for Internaitonal Affairs, at a meeting of the Federation Council.

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Federation Council members applause after approving the so-called Dima Yakovlev law.

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Federation Council members after approving the so-called Dima Yakovlev law.

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Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko after the approval of the so-called Dima Yakovlev law.

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Andrei Klishas, head of the Federation Council Committee for Constitutional Legislation, Judicial and Legal Affairs and the Development of Civil Society, at a Federation Council meeting.

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Andrei Klishas, left, head of the Federation Council Committee for Constitutional Legislation, Judicial and Legal Affairs and the Development of Civil Society, at a meeting of the Federation Council.

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Andrei Klishas, head of the Federation Council Committee for Constitutional Legislation, Judicial and Legal Affairs and the Development of Civil Society, at a meeting of the Federation Council.

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Andrei Klishas, left, head of the Federation Council Committee for Constitutional Legislation, Judicial and Legal Affairs and the Development of Civil Society, and Alexander Chekalin, representative of the executive body of Udmurtia, at a meeting of the Federation Council.

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Members of the Russian Federation Council before a meeting of the Council.

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Russian Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matviyenko at a meeting of the Council.

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From left: Vadim Moshkovich, representative from the legislature of the Belgorod region in the Russian Federation Council; Nikolai Ryzhkov, representative from the executive body of the Belgorod region in the Russian Federation Council; Anatoly Lisitsin, representative from the legislature of the Yaroslavl region in the Russian Federation Council, at a meeting of the Council.

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Russian Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov and his deputy Natalya Tretyak at a meeting of the Russian Federation Council.

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Russian Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov, right, at a meeting of the Russian Federation Council.

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Russian Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matviyenko at a meeting of the Council.

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Lyubov Glebova, a new member of the Russian Federation Council, at a meeting of the Council.

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Yury Udalov, center, member of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, at a meeting of the Council.

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