What is Federation Council (Russia)?
{{Infobox legislature |name=Federation Council |native_name=Совет Федерации {{small|(''Sovet Federatsii'')}} or Federation Soviet |legislature=[[Federal Assembly of Russia]] |coa_pic=Emblem of the Federation Council of Russia.png |image= |coa_res=240px |house_type=Upper house |foundation=1993<ref>https://iacis.ru/eng/parliaments/parlamenty_uchastniki/rossiyskaya_federatsiya/</ref> |preceded_by = [[Soviet of Nationalities]] (1991) |leader1_type=[[Chairman of the Federation Council (Russia)|Chairwoman]] |leader1=[[Valentina Matviyenko]] |party1= |election1= 21 September 2011 |leader2_type= [[List of Deputy Chairmen of the Federation Council of Russia|First Deputy Chairman]] |leader2= [[Andrey Turchak]] |party2= |election2= 23 September 2020 |leader3= [[Andrey Yatskin]] |party3= |election3= 23 September 2020 |members=170 |house1= |house2= |structure1= Russian Federation Council since 2014.svg |structure1_res=265px |political_groups1= Formed and structured on a non-partisan basis |committees1= |voting_system1= *Chosen by regional authorities (170 senators) *Appointed by the [[President of Russia]] (max 30 senators) *[[Senator for life#Russia|Former Presidents]] (ex officio) |last_election1= [[1993 Russian legislative election|12 December 1993]] |next_election1= None |session_room = Meeting of the Federation Council (2018-12-11).jpg |session_res = |meeting_place = 26 Bol'shaya Dmitrovka, Moscow |website=[http://council.gov.ru/en/ www.council.gov.ru] |footnotes= }} [[File:Здание Совета Федерации.jpg|thumb|250px|Federation Council Building in 2017]] The '''Federation Council''' ({{lang-ru|Сове́т Федера́ции}}; ''Sovet Federatsii'', common abbreviation: Совфед (''Sovfed'') or {{lang-ru | Сенат | translit = Senat | translation = Senate}}) is the [[upper house]] of the [[Federal Assembly of Russia]] (the [[parliament]] of the [[Russia| Russian Federation]]), according to the 1993 [[Constitution of the Russian Federation]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Multistub|politics|europe}} [[Category:1993 establishments in Eur