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Former senior Kremlin official elected Russian Duma speaker

Xinhua, October 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

Vyacheslav Volodin, former first deputy chief of staff of the Russian Presidential Administration, was elected on Wednesday chairman of the State Duma, or the lower house of parliament.

Volodin, 51, represents the ruling United Russia Party, which won 343 of 450 seats in parliament in September's Duma elections.

Also on Wednesday, Volodin's predecessor in the Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, assumed the new post at director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service.

Earlier on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Sergei Kiriyenko, former head of the state Rosatom nuclear energy corporation, as first deputy head of the Kremlin Administration. Endi