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Moscow -- Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin will visit the Crimean Federal District, specifically, Sevastopol. 

“During the visit, he will hold a meeting on the legislative support of the further integration of the Republic of Crimea and the federal-status city of Sevastopol in the legal space of the Russian Federation,” the State Duma public relations and media liaison department reported on Friday.

Among the meeting participants will be members of the State Duma committees on constitutional legislation and state development, on civil, criminal, arbitration and procedural legislation, and representatives of the council on legislative activities under the State Duma speaker.

Naryshkin is also expected to have a number of bilateral meetings with Crimean administration officials. He will also attend a meeting of the Crimean department of the Russian Historical Society, which will be devoted to the work on the publication History of Crimea.