Valery Seleznev, a deputy in the Duma, proposed the odd solution. Russia's population shrank by one million in just a year. He said: 'The highest goal and destiny of a woman is to create a family'

Russia on Wednesday passed the second and third readings of a Bill to revoke its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Russian President Vladimir Putin had on October 5 urged the Duma, the Lower House of the country’s Parliament, to make the change to “mirror” the position of the U.S. The CTBT seeks to ban all nuclear explosions, for both military and peaceful purposes.

Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma, on Tuesday voted in favor of withdrawing the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the move would be a "mirror response" to the United States, which never formally ratified the treaty. 187 states have signed the treaty and 178 have ratified it legally in their parliaments.

Margarita Simonyan, head of Russia's international broadcaster RT, suggested that Russia could detonate a nuclear bomb. The idea was recently floated by President Putin himself, and taken up by the chairman of the Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin.

Member of Russian Parliament (Duma) suggested Moscow could target a European country with a cluster bomb attack. Andrey Gurulyov argued Moscow could launch an attack on the Netherlands. The European nation is home to "almost 50 percent of oil refining" for the continent.

EU calls on Bosnian Serb parliament to reject draft law that brands NGOs as 'foreign agents' Critics say the draft law resembles a similar one adopted by the Russian Duma on the eve of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.

The law is to be adopted by the Bosnian Serb parliament at a session starting next Tuesday. The assembly is dominated by lawmakers close to the mini-state’s separatist pro-Russian leader Milorad Dodik. Critics say the draft law resembles a similar one adopted by Russian Duma on eve of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.

Russia is ramping up its nuclear threats as Ukrainian forces advance in a counteroffensive to recapture territory seized throughout the war. Andrey Gurulyov, a Russian parliament (Duma) member and former military commander, suggested on state TV on Tuesday that the area is "the perfect case for a tactical nuclear strike"

Andrey Gurulyov, a member of Russia's state Duma, warned Poland against positioning its troops near the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. His remarks follow weeks of inflamed tensions between Poland and the Wagner Group, a paramilitary organization that fought alongside Russian troops in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Russian strikes have damaged buildings protected under UNESCO World Heritage status. Russia's lower house the Duma has passed an amendment, extending the age for military call up to include citizens from 18 to 30.

Russia used a wider variety of weapons, including, Iranian-made Shahed drones, to attack Danube River port infrastructure. Seven people were injured in the overnight attack, Odesa’s regional governor said. On Tuesday, the Duma will also consider a bill that would raise the age limit for the draft.

Ilya Ponomarev is a former member of the Russian Duma (parliament) and now a leader of the "shadow parliament" of Russian expatriates in Ukraine. He says Putin's downfall "is not years, but months away" and his associates are ready to step in.

Andrey Gurulyov, a Duma representative for the conservative United Russia party, called for the deaths of Yevgeny Prigozhin and his allies. He told viewers of a panel show on the state-run Russia-1 channel traitors must be "destroyed"

State-owned news agency Sputnik reported that the country's Duma (the Lower House of the parliament) is working out a bill on the same. The knee-jerk reaction came in response to the mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin's military organisation which had overtaken two cities.