Q. Consider the following statements:
1. The Parliament of Russia is called Federal Assembly.
2. Council of the Federation in the Russian Parliament is the lower house.
3. The name of the upper house in the Russian Parliament is State Duma.
Which of the statements is/are correct?
Answer:
1 only
Notes: • The name of the parliament of nowadays Russian Federation is the Federal Assembly of Russia.
• The term for its lower house, State Duma (which is better known than the Federal Assembly itself, and is often mistaken for the entirety of the parliament) comes from the Russian word dumat, "to think".
• The Federation Council is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of according to the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation.