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State Duma
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State Duma
The
State Duma
( (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), common abbreviation: Госду́ма (Gosduma)) in the
Russian Federation
is the
lower house
of the
Federal Assembly of Russia
(
legislature
), the
upper house
being the
Federation Council of Russia
. The
Duma
headquarters are located in central
Moscow
, a few steps from
Manege Square
. Its members are referred to as deputies. The State Duma replaced the
Supreme Soviet
as a result of the new constitution introduced by
Boris Yeltsin
in the aftermath of the
Russian constitutional crisis of 1993
, and approved by the Russian public
in a referendum
.
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