Efforts to work out a meeting between members of the Russian State Duma and the US Congress kicked off in October 2025 MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. A delegation of Russian lawmakers has begun talks with US Congress members, Boris Chernyshov, deputy speaker of Russia’s State Duma (lower house of parliament), said. "We are beginning talks with the US Congress," he wrote on Telegram. Efforts to work out a meeting between members of the Russian State Duma and the US Congress kicked off in October 2025,