HOMEPAGE:http://www.council.gov.ru Chairman: Sergey Mikhaylovich
Mironov
Elected chairman on 5 December 2001, replacing Yegor Stroyev, who was named
honorary chairman. A geophysicist, Mironov was elected
to the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly in 1994, and was first elected to the
Federation Council on 13 June 2001 as a representative from the St. Petersburg
Legislative Assembly. In September 2000 he was also elected chairman of the St.
Petersburg political bloc "Volya Peterburga" (the will of St. Petersburg). [Federation
Council Web Site,
http://www.council.gov.ru/ruk/biogr.htm. {Entered 11/15/2002 CC} First Deputy Chairman:
Valeriy Pavlovich
Goreglyad, representative from Sakhalin oblast
[Federation Council Web
Site,
http://www.council.gov.ru/sostav/members/deput/d_304693.htm. {Entered
11/15/2002 CC} Deputy Chairman: Andrey Anatolyevich Vikharev,
representative from Kurgan oblast
[Federation Council Web Site,
http://www.council.gov.ru/sostav/members/deput/d_304592.htm. {Entered
11/15/2002 CC} Deputy Chairman:
Mikhail Yefimovich Nikolayev,
representative from the Sakha
Republic [Federation Council Web
Site,
http://www.council.gov.ru/sostav/members/deput/d_303429.htm. {Entered
11/15/2002 CC} Deputy Chairman: Aleksandr Porfirevich Torshin,
representative from the Mariy
El Republic
[Federation Council Web Site,
http://www.council.gov.ru/sostav/members/deput/d_303412.htm. {Updated
11/15/2002 CC}
HOMEPAGE:http://www.duma.gov.ru Speaker: Gennadiy Nikolayevich
Seleznev
Seleznev was elected to this post on
18 January 1996 after serving as a Deputy of the State Duma since December
1993.[1] He was re-elected in January 2000.[2] Seleznev was born
in 1947 in Serov, Sverdlovsk Region. He served in the Soviet Armed Forces
in 1965-68, graduated from the Journalism Department of Leningrad State
University in 1974, worked as a reporter for Komsomolskaya pravda,
Uchitelskaya
gazeta, and Pravda.[1]
Sources: [1] "The Armed Forces of the Former
Soviet Union: Evolution, Structure and Personalities," Update
Newsletter No. 3/93 - May 1996," p.3-11. {Entered 9/23/96 KD} [2] Denis Solovyev, "Heavy Duma," Profil,
24 January 2000, pp. 4-9; in "Government, Business Personnel Changes,"
FBIS Document CEP20000207000222. {Updated 4/7/2000 CC}
COMMITTEE ON DEFENSE
HOMEPAGE:http://www.duma.gov.ru/.../80200015.htm Chair: General
Andrey Ivanovich Nikolayev
Nikolayev, a member of the People's
Deputy faction, was named chairman of the Defense Committee in January
2000.[1] He replaced Roman Popkovich, who had headed the committee
since 20 May 1998. Popkovich had replaced retired Lieutenant General
Lev Rokhlin, who was removed from the post after several months after leaving
the Our Home is Russia faction in September 1997 and openly declaring his
opposition to President Yeltsin's military reform policies.[2] Like Rokhlin
and Popkovich, Nikolayev is a retired officer, having reached the rank
of General in the Army. He served as director of the Federal Border
Service from 1994 to 1997.[1]
Sources: [1] "General Andrey Nikolayev vstupil
v dolzhnost predsedatelya komiteta Gosdumy po oborone," Profil,
No. 2, January 2000, p. 1; in WPS Oborona i bezopasnost, 26 January 2000. [2] Gleb Cherkasov, "Duma Assigns Ownerless
Committees," Kommersant-daily, 21 May 1998, p. 2; in "Paper Views
Latest Duma Committee Assignments," FBIS-SOV-98-142.{entered 7/9/98 SDP;
updated 1/26/2000 CC; checked 11/15/2002 CC}
COMMITTEE ON
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
HOMEPAGE:http://www.duma.gov.ru/.../80200017.htm Chair: Dmitriy Olegovich
Rogozin
Rogozin, a member of the People's Deputy
faction, is chairman of the Congress of Russian Communities. He replaced
Vladimir Lukin in January 2000.
[Russian State Duma Website, http://www.duma.gov.ru/kro/.]
{Entered 4/6/2000 CC; checked 11/15/2002 CC}
COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRY, CONSTRUCTION,
TRANSPORT, AND ENERGY
This committee is responsible for closed
cities.
[El Pais (Madrid), 11/7/95;
in "Russian ‘Secret Cities’ Congress Reported On," FBIS-SOV-95-217, 7 November
1995.] HOMEPAGE: http://www.duma.gov.ru/.../80200013.htm Chair: Martin Lyutsianovich Shakkum In April 2002 Shakkum, a
member of the Russian Regions (Union of Independent Deputies) group, replaced Yuriy Maslyukov, a member of the Communist Partyand former
deputy premier in Primakov's government.[1] Maslyukov had replaced Vladimir Gusev
in January 2000.[2]
Sources:
[1] Natalya Neymysheva and Aleksey Nikolskiy, "The Communists
Have Lost the Duma," Vedomosti online edition, 4 April 2002; in FBIS
Document CEP20020404000275. [2] Denis Solovyev, "Heavy Duma," Profil,
24 January 2000, pp. 4-9; in "Government, Business Personnel Changes,"
FBIS Document CEP20000207000222.] {Updated 4/7/2000 CC; updated 11/15/2002 CC}
HOMEPAGE:http://www.duma.gov.ru/deputats/committe/80200016.htm Chair: Major General Aleksandr
Ivanovich Gurov
Gurov's career was spent in the Ministry
of Internal Affairs. He headed the Sixth Main Directorate, which
combats organized crime. Gurov, a member of the Unity party, replaced
Viktor Ilyukhin in January 2000.
[Denis Solovyev, "Heavy Duma," Profil, 24 January
2000, pp. 4-9; in "Government, Business Personnel Changes," FBIS Document
CEP20000207000222.] {Updated 4/7/2000 CC; checked 11/15/2002 CC}
COMMISSION TO RECONSIDER THE LAW
ON THE TREATMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE The Law on the Treatment of Radioactive
Waste was passed by the State Duma on 24 November 1995 and approved by
the Federation Council. However, on 27 December 1995 President Yeltsin
rejected the law, and sent it back to the Duma for corrections. In
accordance with a proposal put forward by the Duma Environmental Committee,
on 16 May 1997 the Duma formed this commission to make suggestions to the
Duma for amending the law.
[Duma Decree No. 1422-II GD O sozdanii
komisii v svyazi s otkloneniyem Prezidentom Rossiyskoy Federatsii Federalnogo
zakona 'Ob obrashchenii s radioaktivnymi otkhodami,' 16 May 1997; The
legislation in Russia, http://law.optima.ru.]{Entered 4/6/2000 CC} Chair: Vladimir Aleksandrovich
Grachev
[Duma Decree No. 1081 Ob izmemeniyakh
v sostave komisii, sozdannoy v svyazi s otkloneniyem Prezidentom Rossiyskoy
Federatsii Federalnogo zakona 'Ob obrashchenii s radioaktivnymi otkhodami,'
25 February 2000; Sobraniye zakonodatelstva RF, No. 10, 6 March
2000, p. 2313.]{Entered 4/6/2000 CC} Members: Rim Sagitovich Bakiyev
Vladimir Dmitriyevich Kadochnikov
[Duma Decree No. 1081 Ob izmemeniyakh
v sostave komisii, sozdannoy v svyazi s otkloneniyem Prezidentom Rossiyskoy
Federatsii Federalnogo zakona 'Ob obrashchenii s radioaktivnymi otkhodami,'
25 February 2000; Sobraniye zakonodatelstva RF, No. 10, 6 March
2000, p. 2313.]{Entered 4/6/2000 CC}
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