Chairman of the State Duma the Russian Federation, Chairman of the State Duma creates a Scientific Council for law-making. State Duma has the right to cancel any order, the order of the Chairman. As of , there are three living former Chairmans. The most recent death of a former Chairman was that of Gennadiy Seleznyov (1996–2003) on 19 July 2015, aged 67. Chairman of the State Duma The Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (), also called "Speaker" (), is the presiding officer of the lower house of the Russian parliament. His responsibilities include overseeing the day-to-day business
Duma (DC Comics) funeral of Dream. Duma's sacrifice in taking the key enlightened Remiel, who subsequently accepted the heavy burden of rehabilitating lost souls. Duma also appears at the funeral of Dream of the Endless in , where he gets up and "speaks", but being the angel of silence, simply sheds a single tear which effectively communicates his feelings to all those present. Following the end of the "Sandman" series, Remiel and Duma give up ownership of Hell in a complex sequence of events in the "Lucifer" spin-off series. This is the first time we hear Duma actually "speak", when he defies Remiel