MOSCOW, March 27. /TASS/. Preparations for the US visit by a delegation of members of the Russian State Duma, or lower house of parliament, were held behind closed doors to avoid potential provocations, Mikhail Delyagin, a member of the delegation, said.
According to another delegation member, Vyacheslav Nikonov, who is first deputy chairman of the Duma international committee, the Russian lawmakers’ meeting with their US colleagues in Washington focus on a number of pressing issues, including the Ukrainian crisis.
TASS has summed up what is known about the Russian lawmakers’ visit to the United States to this moment.
Preparations for the Russian delegation’s visit to US Congress were held in secret, Delyagin said.
According to Delyagin, this shroud of secrecy was needed to avoid potential provocations by forces "seeking to drag the United States into expanding support for Ukraine."
