Coordinates: 55°46′15″N 37°36′17″E / 55.77083°N 37.60472°E / 55.77083; 37.60472

Federation Council of Russia (Russian: Сове́т Федера́ции; Sovet Federatsii, literally the Soviet of the Federation)) is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (the parliament of the Russian Federation), according to the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation. Each of the 83federal subjects of Russia - consisting of 21 republics, 46 oblasts, nine krais, two federal cities, four autonomous okrugs, and one autonomous oblast - sends two senators to the Council, for a total membership of 166 senators.

The Council holds its sessions within the Main Building on Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street in Moscow, the former home of the Soviet State Building Agency (Gosstroy), with further offices and committee rooms located on Novy Arbat Street. The two houses of the Federal Assembly are physically separated, with the State Duma residing in another part of Moscow. Sessions of the Federation Council are held in Moscow from January 25 to July 15, and from September 16 to December 31. Sessions are open to the public, although the location of sessions can be changed if the Federation Council so desires, and secure closed sessions may be convoked.

Mikhail Vitalievich Margelov (Михаил Витальевич Маргелов) (born December 22, 1964, Moscow, Russia), the current Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of Russia. He is a member of the United Russia party and has represented the Pskov region in the Federation Council since December 2000. He has been a member of the European Democrat Group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2002 until 2009.

Margelov graduated from the Institute of Countries of Asia and Africa, which is affiliated to Moscow State University.

He is married and has two sons.

Margelov has worked as an interpreter in the International Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, taught Arabic at the Higher School of the USSR State Security Committee, and was Senior Editor of the Arab section in the TASS News Agency. He is also fluent in English.

In 1990-1995, he was employed by a number of US consulting companies dealing with investment projects in the Commonwealth of Independent States. In 1995, he became project director for the publicity campaign of Grigory Yavlinsky and the Yabloko movement. In 1996, he was chief co-ordinator for advertising for President Boris Yeltsin's 1996 re-election campaign. He went on to head the President's public relations department from November 1996 to May 1998.

Lyudmila Borisovna Narusova (Russian: Людми́ла Бори́совна На́русова, born 2 May 1951) is a Russian politician, a member of the Federation Council of Russia, representing Tyva Republic.

Lyudmila Narusova was born in Bryansk, Belarus, USSR. In 1969-1974 she studied history in Saint Petersburg State University. Then, in 1977-1980 she studied history at the graduate school of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences and worked at Saint Petersburg State University. In 1980 she married Anatoly Sobchak. After obtaining Ph.D. in History (Russian: кандидат наук), she taught history at the St. Petersburg Academy of Culture.

Lyudmila Narusova entered Russian politics then she was elected to the State Duma in 1995. She was a member of "Our Home – Russia" faction. Since 2000, Lyudmila Narusova became a host of TV-show "Freedom of speech" at St. Petersburg branch of RTR. In October 2002 she was elected a member of the Federation Council of Russia. Currently she is a member Fair Russia party.

Dr Qader Magsi (Sindhi: قادر مگسی ) is a politician in Sindh, Pakistan. Dr. Qader Magsi is the leader of political party of Pakistan Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party.

Dr. Qader Magsi was born on 25 December 1962 in Thatta. He got primary and intermediate education in Thatta. He joined Liaquat Medical College LMC (Now it is Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro L.U.M.H.S) in 1981 for MBBS. In 1982 he become member of Jeay Sindh Student Federation (JSSF) in LMC Unit, due to his honesty, hardworking and faithfulness with party he became President of LMC unit. He made lot of good efforts for Jeay Sindh Student Federation, he started study circle for JSSF.

Later on, he established Taraqi Pasand Wing. He has been imprisoned various times on political stature. Dr Magsi converted his Tarqi Pasand Wing into Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party (STP) on 21 March 1991, he became it founding party Chairman.

Dr Qadir Magsi