1Those four parties had dominated the last State Duma, the lower house.
2Chernomyrdin has been rejected as prime minister twice by the State Duma.
3Two people staged lone pickets outside the State Duma on Wednesday.
4The wholesale dismissal of regional legislatures requires the approval of the State Duma.
5The lower house, or State Duma, is dominated by allies of President Vladimir Putin.
6The Federation Council and the State Duma have voted in support of these appeals.
7The Communist party controls 57 seats in the State Duma.
8The lower house, or State Duma, was to consider a similar text later in the morning.
9The document was drafted by pro-Kremlin lawmakers in the State Duma, or lower house of parliament.
10On Wednesday, the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, began discussing amendments to soften the law.
11Petrov is a deputy of the state Duma lower house of parliament, representing the Just Russia party.
12Both deny any involvement and remain in Russia, where Lugovoi is a deputy in the state Duma.
13The State Duma is unlike most parliaments.
14The State Duma passed the banking capital bill in all three readings in an accelerated process on Friday.
15It is the model for a draft law being discussed by the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.
16Mr Putin, a former KGB operative, was installed as acting Prime Minister yesterday, pending approval by the state Duma.
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