The agreement still requires ratification from the full Senate and the Russian Duma.

该协议仍然需要参议院全体议员和俄罗斯杜马的批准。

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Oleg Morozov is the first deputy speaker of the Russian Duma, the lower house of parliament.

俄罗斯议院下院杜马的第一副发言人莫里兹说。

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After the signing, the treaty must be ratified by the Russian Duma and the U.S.Senate, where 67 of the 100 Senators must approve it.

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Analysts say whenever the two sides agree on a new treaty, that pact must still be ratified by the U.S.Senate and the Russian Parliament - or Duma.

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Despite Verkhovsky's skepticism about the Russian government's willingness to help NGOs, the State Duma is debating a bill that would ease some of the tighter regulations governing NGOs.

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Will groups that are very anti-Western in the Russian Duma push the present, moderate leadership and form a leadership that is much more hostile?

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But the Russian Duma failed to pass the necessary tax laws to accompany the deal until ExxonMobil, with the help of the U.S. government and Putin, applied pressure.

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Yulia Averyanova of Perspektiva, a Russian charity, says that Mikhail Terentiev and Vladimir Krupennikov, two former Paralympians now elected to the Russian Duma (parliament) have helped change attitudes.

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