“October 3, on Monday, it is proposed to hold a plenary meeting, which will begin at 14:00, in order to hold a meeting of the council before that,” Volodin said, his words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

The plenary session of the State Duma is also scheduled for Tuesday.

On the eve in the republics of Donbass, as well as in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, the counting of votes in a referendum on the issue of joining the regions into Russia was completed.

According to preliminary data, after processing 100% of the protocols in the DPR, 99.23% of citizens voted in favor, in the Lugansk People's Republic - 98.42%, in the Zaporozhye region this figure was 93.11%, and in the Kherson region - 87.05%.