In Tehran,Iran's Deputy Parliament Speaker said the United States "humiliated and opposed the Islamic Republic."

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Mr Maduro subsequently became deputy speaker and later speaker of the national assembly until 2006.

BBC: Profile: Nicolas Maduro

Marek Jurek, parliamentary speaker and deputy chairman of Law and Justice, says that changing this is necessary to create the conditions for making Poland a more democratic country.

ECONOMIST: Poland's awkward government

Artur Chilingarov, an adventurer and deputy speaker of Russia's parliament, led two Russian mini-submarines to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean beneath the North Pole, where he collected gravel and planted the Russian flag.

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