MURMANSK REGIONAL DUMA

General Information

Speaker: Mr.Vasiliy Shambir

First Vice-speaker: Mr.Mikhail Il’inykh

Vice-speakers: Mr.Alexander Krupaderov

Mr.Alexander Makarevich

Ms.Nadezhda Maksimova

Mr.Vyacheslav Popov Mr.Pavel Sazhinov Mr.Andrey Chernev

Murmansk Regional Duma of the 5th convocation(2011 - 2016)

The state power in the Russian Federation shall be exercised on the basis of its division into legislative, executive and judicial power. The bodies of legislative, executive and judicial power

shall be independent.

Charter of the

Murmansk Region

Governor of the Murmansk Region

Government of the Murmansk Region: - determines and implements measures aimed at complex social-economic development of the region - participates in pursuing of the state policy in the field of finance, research, education, healthcare, welfare, environment

- defines the structure of executive authorities - forms the Murmansk Region’s Government - determines the guidelines of the Government activity

Murmansk Regional Duma (Regional Parliament) –

a permanent acting legislative (representative) body of state power of the Murmansk region

considers legislative proposals and adopts:Charter of Murmansk Region Regional Laws on:

Regional BudgetStructure, procedure of forming and activity of Regional GovernmentLocal GovernmentProcedure for elections of the Regional Duma members, mayors and municipal councils membersProcedure for regional and local referendumProgrammes of social-economic development of the Murmansk Region submitted by the GovernorSome taxes and duties and procedure of their collectionProcedure of administration of the Regional PropertyProcedure of land and natural resources use

Murmansk Regional Duma (Regional Parliament):

Murmansk Regional Duma (Regional Parliament):

elects member of the Council of Federation – representative from Regional Dumavests with authority the Governor of the Murmansk Region upon recommendation of the President of Russian Federation approves the appointments of the First Vice-Governorsapproves the appointment of the Attorney of Murmansk Regionnominates half of the members of the Regional Election Commission nominates and discharges Chairman, Vice-Chairman and auditors of the Regional Audit Chamber nominates members of the Competition Commissions – to conduct competitions to fill the posts of municipal city-managersnominates justices of the peace upon recommendation of the President of the Regional Court elects Duma’s representatives in Qualification Commission under the Chamber of Lawyers of the Murmansk region nominates public representatives in Qualification Panel of Judges of the Murmansk regionelects one third of Regional Public Chamber’s membersnominates Commissioner for Child’s rights in the Murmansk region

SUPERVISORY POWERS

DUMA has the powers to control: - budget execution;

designation and spending of credit resources and appropriations from federal budget;

administration of the regional public property

REGIONAL AUDIT CHAMBER – permanent acting body of the financial control

- was formed by Murmansk Regional Duma in 1997 examines budget execution: amount, structure and purpose controls appropriation of financial resources transferred from federal authorities defines the efficiency and expediency of resources spending and use of public property - carries out the financial expertise of the regional long-term purpose-oriented programmes, draft legislation and regulatory

legal acts

REGIONAL AUDIT CHAMBER once every three months informs MURMANSK REGIONAL DUMA about the process of budget

execution

was established in December 1994 consists of 36 representatives (members) elected by the

population for a term of five years new members of regional parliament were elected on the

4th of December 2011 half of them are elected in single-seat constituencies

(electoral districts), the rest 18 – in the unified regional electoral district in proportion of the number of votes cast for regional lists of candidates nominated by political parties

there are four party groups in the Regional Duma:• "United Russia" political party parliamentary group (22)• “Just Russia“ political party parliamentary group (5) • "Communist Party of Russian Federation" parliamentary

group (5) • "Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia" parliamentary group

(3) • one non-attached member

Murmansk Regional Duma

12 committees are formed in the Murmansk Regional Duma Committees prepare the maters for final consideration

at the Duma's plenary sessions- Committee on Budget, Finances and Taxes (Chair: Mr.Boris

Pishchulin)

- Committee on Economic Policy and Economical Activity (Chair: Mr.Mikhail Antropov)

- Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection (Chair: Ms.Natal’ya Leshchinskaya)

- Committee on Labour and Social Policy (Chair: Mr. Yuriy Payusov)

- Committee on Health Care (Chair: Mr.Oleg Minin)

- Committee on Family Affairs, Youth and Sport Activity (Chair: Ms.Larisa Kruglova)

- Committee on Local Self-Government Issues (Chair: Mr.Yuriy Shadrin)

- Committee on Education, Science and Culture (Chair: Ms. Nataliya Vedishcheva)

- Committee on Legislation (Chair: Mr.Vladimir Mishchenko)

- Committee on Energy and Housing&Communal Services (Chair: Mr.Vyacheslav Bezugly)

- Committee on Natural Resources Use, Fisheries and Agricultural Sector (Chair: Mr.Gennady Stepakhno)

- Committee on Issues of Security, Military-Industrial Complex, Military Personnel and Closed Administrative-Territorial Communities (Chair: Mr.Mikhail Il’inykh)

Our role: to provide the legislative support and effective

interaction between authorities of local, regional

and federal levels for the development of the region

the regional regulatory and legal framework for successful implementation of the projects and creation favorable conditions for the parties involved; regional legislation; parliamentary hearings

introducing the draft bills of federal laws using our power to introduce legislation in State Duma; interaction with profiled committees in the Federal Parliament.

Our tools:

interaction with people in

constituencies; public hearings, public offices:

- Office for work with addresses and statements of the citizens (more than 3 thousand addresses annually);

- “Virtual office” for citizens’ addresses at

the Murmansk regional Duma’s web-site;

- Regional office of the Public Office of the

Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev

- Regional office of the Public Office of “United Russia” Party Leader Vladimir Putin;

- Regional Office of the Public Office of

the “Just Russia” Party

Our tools:

Duma’s sessions, Committees meetings and other

events in the Murmansk Regional Duma are opened to the mass media

Duma’s sessions are broadcasting on-line on the Internet

Coordinative Council on Informatization and Long-term targeted programme “Development of Information Society and Creation of e-Government in the Murmansk Region” for the period 2011-2013

Openness and publicity

Development of the Civil Society

Public Chamber of the Murmansk Region consists of 45 representatives of the regional and local non-governmental organizations:

- One third (15 members) approved by the Governor - One third (15 members) elected by Regional Duma - These 30 members by-turn elected the rest 15 members

of the Public Chamber

Commissioner for Child’s rights in the Murmansk region

Public Youth Parliament under the Murmansk regional Duma

Local self-government

in the Murmansk Region

40 municipalities with various status: - 14 urban districts - 5 municipal areas - 13 urban settlements - 10 rural settlements

Structure:

Municipal Council (representative body)

Mayor (Head of the municipality, high municipal

official):

Local Administration (executive and administrative

body)

Local self-government is independent within the limits of its authority.

The bodies of local self-government are not the part of the system

of bodies of state authority

Our tool: Coordinative Body of municipal councils established under the Murmansk

Regional Duma

Murmansk Regional Duma

has good links and interaction with regional parliaments of neighbouring countries, including County Councils of the Northern Norway and Regional Councils of the Northern Finland

takes an active part in international cooperation within the framework of inter-parliamentary organizations such as Nordic Council, Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, Conference of the parliamentarians of the Arctic Region, Conference of the parliamentarians of the Barents region, Northern Dimension Parliamentary Forum and others

is a members of the Parliamentary Association of the North-West Russia, which unites 11 regional parliaments of the North-West Federal District of the Russian Federation

Murmansk Regional Duma

www.duma.murman.ru e-mail:

murmanduma@com.mels.ru