杜马 (Dùmǎ): Duma (lower chamber of the Russian parliament)

Meanings

1 Duma (lower chamber of the Russian parliament)

Characters

杜

Examples

俄罗斯国家杜马通过了这项法案。

Éluósī guójiā Dùmǎ tōngguò le zhè xiàng fǎ'àn.

The Russian State Duma passed this bill.

杜马选举每五年举行一次。

Dùmǎ xuǎnjǔ měi wǔ nián jǔxíng yí cì.

Duma elections are held once every five years.

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history

杜马 is a phonetic transliteration of Russian Дума ('Duma'). The State Duma (国家杜马) was first established under Tsar Nicholas II in 1906 after the 1905 Revolution, abolished in 1917, and revived in the post-Soviet Russian constitution of 1993.

usage

In Chinese news, it almost always appears as 俄罗斯国家杜马 or 国家杜马 to distinguish it from city/regional dumas.