MOSCOW, July 5 Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky and head of the Committee on Affairs CIS, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov received the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin told reporters. such a status — «this is a high assessment, an increase in the role of parliament.» According to him, this is the first such precedent in relation to deputies.
