MOSCOW, December 10. /ITAR-TASS/. The State Duma, lower house of Russian parliament, will consider an amnesty bill dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Russian Constitution until December 21, the head of Duma committee on civil, criminal, arbitrary and procedure legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
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