Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma

The Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma (Russian: Комитет Государственной Думы по международным делам) is a committee of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's Federal Assembly.

Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma Комитет Государственной Думы по международным делам Komitet Gosudarstvennoj Dumy po mezhdunarodnym delam
State Duma
Established	12 December 1993; 31 years ago (1993-12-12)
Leadership
Chairman	Leonid Slutsky, Liberal Democratic Party
Seats	15
Meeting place
State Duma building 1 Okhotny Ryad Street, Moscow
Website
interkomitet.com

The Committee carries out activities in the field of implementation of Russia's foreign policy, international contacts of the State Duma, work in interparliamentary structures, and relations with parliaments of other states. The Committee checks the international treaties subject to ratification and gives its conclusion, after which the draft treaties are put to the vote of the State Duma. Also, the Committee considers candidates proposed by the Russian President for the posts of ambassadors to foreign countries and international organizations and makes its recommendations regarding their appointment to the proposed positions.^[1]

Membership

Members of the Committee in the 8th State Duma:^[2]

Member	Position	Party
Leonid Slutsky	Chair of the Committee		Liberal Democratic Party
Svetlana Zhurova	First Deputy Chair of the Committee		United Russia
Vyacheslav Nikonov	First Deputy Chair of the Committee		United Russia
Dmitry Novikov	First Deputy Chair of the Committee		Communist Party
Shamsail Saraliev	First Deputy Chair of the Committee		United Russia
Alexey Chepa	First Deputy Chair of the Committee		A Just Russia — For Truth
Irina Rodnina	Deputy Chair of the Committee		United Russia
Dmitry Belik	Member of the Committee		United Russia
Maria Butina	Member of the Committee		United Russia
Sergey Kotkin	Member of the Committee		United Russia
Dmitry Kuznetsov	Member of the Committee		A Just Russia — For Truth
Zelimkhan Mutsoev	Member of the Committee		United Russia
Valentina Tereshkova	Member of the Committee		United Russia
Saygidpasha Umakhanov	Member of the Committee		United Russia
Roza Chemeris	Member of the Committee		New People

Chairs

Duma	Chair		Took office	Left office	Political Party		Ref.
1st		Vladimir Lukin (1937–)	17 January 1994	17 January 1996		Yabloko	[3]
2nd			17 January 1996	19 January 2000			[4]
3rd		Dmitry Rogozin (1963–)	19 January 2000	16 January 2004		Rodina	[5]
4th		Konstantin Kosachev (1962–)	16 January 2004	24 December 2007		United Russia	[6]
5th			24 December 2007	21 December 2011			[7]
6th		Aleksey Pushkov (1954–)	21 December 2011	5 October 2016		United Russia	[8]
7th		Leonid Slutsky (1968–)	5 October 2016	12 October 2021		Liberal Democratic Party	[9]
8th			12 October 2021	Incumbent			[10]