Chairman of the State Duma the State Duma is also a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Current Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin was elected October 5, 2016. According to the 101st article of the Russian Constitution and the Regulations of the State Duma, the Chairman is elected from among its members by secret ballot, using ballot papers of the candidates who have the right to nominate deputy associations and deputies. State Duma may decide to hold an open vote. 29 December 2003: 24 December 2007: 21 December 2011. Vote was held separately for each of the candidates.: 5 October 2016: According to Article
Duma arson attack of membership in a terrorist organization. It emerged in investigations that the attack had apparently been planned in a cave called the "Red House" built from a previously existing Palestinian structure, on a site that was then turned into an Israeli outpost called "Yishuv HaDaat." According to Rabbis for Human Rights, the state still plans to legalize this same outpost, though it was stolen through threats and violence from its Palestinian owners. On 31 July 2015, two family homes in Duma, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, were firebombed by masked attackers. According to all reports, the first house