Russian Parliament Speaker visits India to expand bilateral economic partnership; coop in BRICS, SCO

MPs from India and Russia will hold brainstorming session on Monday here on expanding bilateral economic partnership with India in areas of agriculture and energy with support from respective Parliaments.

The session is being held on the occasion of visit of Russian Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin. He is no stranger to India but this is his maiden visit in the current capacity.

Last visit of the state duma speaker to India was in 2015. During the past two years Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan travelled to Russia twice. Last time she guest of honour and was invited to speak at the Duma comprising 450 MPs.


Volodin will also meet PM Narendra Modi and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu. Together with Mahajan they will chair 5th meeting of the Russian-Indian inter parliamentary commission.

Two speakers will discuss inter parliamentary cooperation, including in international parlamentary organizations. They will touch upon development of parlamentary dimension of BRICS and SCO.