Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, foreground, attends the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council Yury Vorobyov attends the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council Ilyas Umakhanov attends the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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Olga Timofeyeva, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma, attends the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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From left: St. Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko, Chairman of the State Duma International Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky and Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Olga Timofeyeva attend the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg

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Federation Council Chairperson Valentina Matviyenko speaks at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin speaks at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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From left: Speaker of the The Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran Ali Larijani and Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev attend the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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Russian MPs attend the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg. From right: Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council Ilyas Umakhanov, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy, First Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council Nikolai Fyodorov, First Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Alexander Zhukov, Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council Yury Vorobyov, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Olga Timofeyeva and Chairman of the State Duma International Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky.

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From left: UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury Fedotov and British Conservative Party politician Ian Richard Liddell-Grainger at the opening ceremony of the 137th Assembly of Inter-Parliamentary Union at the Expoforum congress and exhibition center in St. Petersburg.

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MPs at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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IPU President Saber Chowdhury speaks at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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IPU President Saber Chowdhury speaks at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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IPU President Saber Chowdhury speaks at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin speaks at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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A show at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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UN Under-Secretary-General Yury Fedotov speaks at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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Federation Council Chairperson Valentina Matviyenko speaks at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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A show at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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MPs at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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MPs at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin heads to deliver a speech at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin speaks at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Saber Chowdhury delivers a speech at the official opening ceremony of the 137th Assembly of the IPU at the Expoforum convention and exhibition center in St. Petersburg.

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IPU President Saber Chowdhury is about to deliver a speech at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Saber Chowdhury delivers a speech at the official opening ceremony of the 137th Assembly of the IPU at the Expoforum convention and exhibition center in St. Petersburg.

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President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Saber Chowdhury delivers a speech at the official opening ceremony of the 137th Assembly of the IPU at the Expoforum convention and exhibition center in St. Petersburg.

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Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin speaks at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin speaks at the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg.

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October 14, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin participates in the opening of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at the Expoforum convention and exhibition center in St. Petersburg.

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