The State Duma should be given investigatory and judicial powers in cases of state importance.
Elections to Russia's lower house of parliament - the Duma - are scheduled for December 2011.
Still, Duma said, it may take as many as 20 years to reach a firm conclusion.
If it gets the thumbs down, the Duma might well be dissolved pending new elections.
In reality, the Duma's obstruction would be motivated largely by the gleeful prospect of disorder.
It is hard for the Duma to impeach the president or change the constitution.
Mr Yeltsin would then have had to dissolve the Duma and call a general election.
It was passed by the Duma - Russia's lower house - in a first reading on Tuesday.
The state duma should be strengthened and should again exercise its constitutional right to control budget expenditures.
Just one deputy in the State Duma voted against the legislation, which expands a 2001 smoking law.
Indeed, the Duma may be willing to co-operate with a reformer appointed to take Mr Chubais's place.
The Duma's composition is still being finalised, since these national results will determine only half the seats.
The decree must first be approved by the lower house of parliament, the Duma, before it becomes law.
In future, the entire Duma will be made up from party lists, which will squeeze out independent legislators.
By December 1992 Mr Gaidar had lost his job at the hands of the Duma, Russia's Soviet-era parliament.
He will have to accommodate the Duma, the lower house of parliament, and handle the regional governors deftly.
With the Duma due to debate the power bill as early as September, things will get even trickier.
That unleashed a firestorm in the Russian media and the parliament, the Duma.
But the omens are not good: a small-businessmen's party formed for the most recent Duma elections polled only 0.3%.
Mr Putin also plans to abolish the first-past-the-post contests that currently fill half the seats in the parliament (Duma).
For instance, last October, he issued a summons to appear for questioning for Russian State Duma Deputy Vladislav Reznik.
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START-2, has been blocked by the Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament.
The Duma, parliament's currently quiescent lower house, could lose patience with Mr Primakov.
Two pieces of legislation based on Mr Putin's speech have become stuck in the Duma, or lower house of parliament.
Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma, endorsed Sergei Kiriyenko , a nominee of President Boris Yeltsin, as prime minister.
He is now a deputy in the Duma, the lower house of parliament, for the impoverished southern republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia.
Mr Putin's sway over the Duma will depend more on his negotiating skills after the election than on campaigning before it.
On Wednesday morning, Mr. Pekhtin made a surprise appearance in front of the Duma to announce he was relinquishing his seat.
The State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, adopted the bill on its third reading, the state-run RAPSI news agency reported.
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The Duma would be the equivalent of the US House of Representatives.
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