MOSCOW, December 20 Representatives of the Federation Council, The State Duma and their colleagues from the regions have made a great contribution to strengthening the authority and influence of Russia on international platforms, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“»I will especially note your joint efforts within the framework of parliamentary diplomacy. I want to say that in the nineties , and already in the twenty-first century, representatives of the Federation Council and the State Duma, colleagues from the regions, municipal representative bodies of power — with their courageous, active, professional, I want to emphasize this, work on international platforms made a great contribution to the revival, and then to the gradual consistent strengthening authority and influence of our country, promoting Russia’s sovereign taste as one of the leaders of the world majority, the objective process of building a fairer, multipolar world,” Putin said, speaking at the Council of Legislators.