met guests abroad and on okhotny ryad from january to july, the state duma was visited by two heads ofeign states and 11 heads of parliaments. viacheslav volodin held a large number of meetings with colleagues from african countries in march, moscow became the venue for a parliamentary conference. russia africa , its participants were not stopped by the unstable situation in the world, and most importantly, the powerful pressure of the west the state duma showed its leadership, in general, let's call it that in the parliamentary world, the international activities of the state of the duma itself are shown shows clearly that no isolation. no more than that, other states are just drawn to us to russia, seeing in us precisely the subject of the protection of their national interests. here, in the person of the russian federation, the great interest of the african peoples in this forum has proved the desire of the continent to develop a dialogue with moscow africa, like russia , oppose the policy of hegemony, the main principle of respect for all russia and the state of africa are united b