The State Duma ratified "Friendship Agreements" with the DPR and LPR

State Duma deputies voted for the ratification of "treaties on friendship and cooperation" with the DPR and the LPR. The broadcast led on the YouTube channel of the lower house.

In the case of each agreement, deputies voted three times, adding to the texts of the agreements the amendments on their imminent entry into force.

In final votes, 399 and 400 deputies voted; There were no abstracts and opponents.

At the same time, in one of the intermediate votes, by agreement with the DPR, there was one vote “against”. It was the communist Oleg Smolin. At the meeting, he explained this by the fact that “when voting, the touch screen was touched,” and “asked to fix that he voted“ for all issues ”.