1. MURMANSK REGIONAL DUMA General Information
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2. Murmansk Regional Duma of the 6th convocation (2016 - 2021)
Speaker: Mr.Sergey Dubovoy First Vice-speaker: Mr. Vladimir Mishchenko Vice-speakers: Ms.Natalia Vedishcheva Mr.Vasiliy Omelchuk
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3. Governor of the Murmansk Region Murmansk Regional Duma
The state power in the Russian Federation shall be exercised on the basis of its division into legislative, executive and judicial power. The bodies of legislative, executive and judicial power shall be independent.
Governor of the Murmansk Region
Murmansk Regional Duma
(Regional Parliament) –
a permanent acting legislative
(representative) body of state
power of the Murmansk region
Charter of the Murmansk Region
- defines the structure of executive authorities
- forms the Murmansk Region’s Government
- determines the guidelines of the Government activity
Government of the Murmansk Region:
- determines and implements measures aimed at complex social-economic development of the region
- participates in pursuing of the state policy in the field of finance, research, education, healthcare, welfare, environment

4. Murmansk Regional Duma (Regional Parliament):
considers legislative proposals and adopts:
Charter of Murmansk Region
Regional Laws on:
Regional Budget
Structure, procedure of forming and activity of Regional Government
Local Government
Procedure for elections of the Regional Duma members, mayors and
municipal councils members
Procedure for regional and local referendum
Programmes of social-economic development of the Murmansk
Region submitted by the Governor
Some taxes and duties and procedure of their collection
Procedure of administration of the Regional Property
Procedure of land and natural resources use 4

5. Murmansk Regional Duma (Regional Parliament):
elects member of the Council of Federation – representative from Regional Duma
approves the appointments of the First Vice-Governors
approves the appointment of the Attorney of Murmansk Region
nominates half of the members of the Regional Election Commission
nominates and discharges Chairman, Vice-Chairman and auditors of the Regional Audit Chamber
nominates justices of the peace upon recommendation of the President of the Regional Court
elects Duma’s representatives in Qualification Commission under the Chamber of Lawyers of the Murmansk region
nominates public representatives in Qualification Panel of Judges of the Murmansk region
elects one third of Regional Public Chamber’s members
nominates Commissioner for Human Rights in the Murmansk region
nominates Commissioner for the Rights of the Child in the Murmansk region 5

6. DUMA has the powers to control: - budget execution;
SUPERVISORY POWERS
DUMA has the powers to control:
- budget execution;
designation and spending of credit resources
and appropriations from federal budget;
administration of the regional public property
REGIONAL AUDIT CHAMBER –
permanent acting body of the financial control
- was formed by Murmansk Regional Duma in 1997
examines budget execution: amount, structure and purpose
controls appropriation of financial resources transferred
from federal authorities
defines the efficiency and expediency of resources spending
and use of public property
- carries out the financial expertise of the regional long-term
purpose-oriented programmes, draft legislation and regulatory legal acts
REGIONAL AUDIT CHAMBER once every three months informs
MURMANSK REGIONAL DUMA about the process of budget execution

7. Murmansk Regional Duma
was established in December 1994
consists of 32 representatives (members) elected by the population for a term of five years
new members of regional parliament were elected on the 18th of September 2016
half of them are elected in single-seat constituencies (electoral districts), the rest 16 – in the unified regional electoral district in proportion of the number of votes cast for regional lists of candidates nominated by political parties
there are four party groups in the Regional Duma:
"United Russia" political party parliamentary group (25)
“Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia" parliamentary group (4)
"Communist Party of Russian Federation" parliamentary group (2)
“Just Russia“ political party parliamentary group (1)

8. 9 committees, which prepare matters for consideration
at the Duma’s plenary sessions, are formed
in the Murmansk Regional Duma:
Committee on Budget, Finances and Taxes (Chair: Mr. Boris Pishchulin)
Committee on Economic Policy, Energy, Housing and Communal Services
(Chair: Mr. Maksim Belov)
Committee on Education, Science and Culture, Family Affairs, Youth and Sport Activity
(Chair: Ms. Larisa Kruglova)
Committee on Issues of Security, Military-Industrial Complex, Military Personnel and
Closed Administrative-Territorial Communities (Chair: Mr. Mikhail Il’inykh)
Committee on Labour, Migration and Employment Issues
(Chair: Mr. Aleksander Makarevich)
Committee on Legislation and Local Self-Government Issues
(Chair: Mr. Vladimir Mishchenko)
Committee on Natural Resources Use, Ecology, Fisheries and Agricultural
Sector (Chair: Mr. Valeriy Panteleev)
Committee on Social Policy and Health Care (Chair: Ms. Nadezhda Maksimova)
Committee on Transport, Roads and Informatization (Chair: Mr. Mikhail Antropov)

9. Our role:. to provide the legislative support and effective
Our role: to provide the legislative support and effective interaction between authorities of local, regional and federal levels for the development of the region
the regional regulatory and legal framework for successful implementation of the projects and creation favorable conditions for the parties involved; regional legislation; parliamentary hearings
introducing the draft bills of federal laws using our power to introduce legislation in State Duma; interaction with profiled committees in the Federal Parliament
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10. Our tools:
interaction with people in constituencies; public hearings, public offices:
- Office for work with addresses and statements of the citizens (more than 3 thousand addresses annually);
- “Virtual office” for citizens’ addresses at the Murmansk Regional Duma’s web-site;
- Regional office of the Public Office of the Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin
- Regional office of the Public Office of “United Russia” Party Leader Dmitry Medvedev;
- Regional Office of the Public Office of the “Just Russia” Party 10

11. Openness and publicity
Duma’s sessions, Committees meetings and other events in the Murmansk Regional Duma are opened to the mass media
Duma’s sessions are broadcasting on-line on the Internet
Development of the Civil Society
Public Chamber of the Murmansk Region consists of 45 representatives of the regional and local non-governmental organizations:
- One third (15 members) approved by the Governor
- One third (15 members) elected by Regional Duma
- These 30 members by-turn elected the rest 15 members of the
Public Chamber
Commissioner for the Rights of Child in the Murmansk region
Commissioner for Human Rights in the Murmansk region 11

12. Local self-government in the Murmansk Region
Local self-government is independent within the limits of its authority.
The bodies of local self-government are not the part of the system
of bodies of state authority
40 municipalities with various status:
- 14 urban districts
- 5 municipal areas
- 13 urban settlements
- 10 rural settlements
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Our tool: Coordinative Body of municipal councils established under the Murmansk Regional Duma

13. Murmansk Regional Duma
has links and interaction with regional councils of neighbouring countries
takes part in international cooperation within the framework of inter-parliamentary organizations such as Nordic Council, Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, Conference of the parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, Conference of the parliamentarians of the Barents region, Northern Dimension Parliamentary Forum and others
is a members of the Parliamentary Association of the North-West Russia, which unites 11 regional parliaments of the North-West Federal District of the Russian Federation

14. Murmansk Regional Duma e-mail: post@duma-murman.ru
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