Belarusian, Russian and European parliaments inside (PHOTO)

In some countries, it is not a problem to come to a president's residence or other governmental buildings with an excursion.

To see, for example, the Belarusian House of Representatives, it is necessary to appoint a meeting with an MP, otherwise it is impossible to take an excursion around this building.

Euroradio journalist and his camera were admitted not only to the Belarusian parliament, but also to the State Duma of Russia. I also managed to take pictures inside the European Parliament, which is quite easy today.

The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus. The building is two years older than the Russian State Duma. There are more than 700 cabinets in it, the height is 9 levels. 

European Parliament, Brussels.

The Oval Hall of the House of Representatives.

View from the reporter's tribune in the Belarusian Oval Hall

The main session hall in the European Parliament.

The Great session hall in the House of Represenatives.

The new furniture in the same place. However, the chairs and tables for MPs in the Oval Hall remained unchanged since Soviet times.

Session hall of the House of Representatives' Council.

Sessions of the temporary commissions and working groups of the House of Represenatives are held in this modest hall.

Another big session hall used by Belarusian MPs.

A corridor in the building of the House of Representatives. 

Side view of the ceremonial staircase in the Russian State Duma. The deputies are on vacation, and the workers are doing some re-decoration.

A metallic composition inside the spiral staircase in the European Parliament.

One of the toilets in the State Duma. Sometimes they save on liquid soap and offer firm fragrant pieces of soap to the visitors.

A toilet in the European Parliament. A photo from the Indernet.

A toilet in the House of Representatives.

A Stalin epoch chandelier in the Oval Hall of the House of Representatives. It is made of Belarusian glass. It's weight is 5 tons, and it has 538 bulbs in it. Now they are electricity-saving ones, but there used to be just ordinary bulbs. Those bulbs sometimes exploded. There is a special mechanism to take this chandelier down. They clean it, chamge the bulbs and lift it up again. 

A canteen in the Russian State Duma. In the front - the table which is favoured by the members of the LDPR, according to the cooks.

Drinking water is glass jars is placed in every session hall of the House of Representatives. They take it from the tap and put through a big filter. 

A sign saying "European Parliament" in different languages. As we see, they make linguistic mistakes in the Shengen zone as well.

The Belarusian language buttons at the workplace of the employee of the House of Representatives Secretariat. It is interesting that most signs at the doors of the MPs cabinets are also in Belarusian. 

One of the bas-relief showing revolutionary struggle, in the foyer of the Oval Hall of the House of representatives.