State Duma passes bill on prompt blocking of extremist content in first readingThe State Duma passed a bill envisaging prompt blocking of information containing justification of extremist and terrorist activities in the first reading on Tuesday.15:11 09.03.2021
Government brings bill on unified list of socially oriented NGOs before State DumaThe Government has submitted a bill consolidating existing registers of socially oriented NGOs and NGOs of the same kind mostly affected by the coronavirus pandemic to Russia’s lower house of parliament.15:12 05.03.2021
Russian Human Rights Council backs State Duma move to ban capture of marine mammalsThe Presidential Human Rights Council positively sees an initiative to ban the capture of marine mammals, believes it is answering the hopes and demands of the country's civil society13:57 03.03.2021
Bill decriminalizing inadvertent drug circulation violations by doctors reaches State DumaRussia’s government has submitted to the State Duma a bill on the humanization of criminal legislation in relation to persons who have committed violations of the rules for the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in the course of medical activities, which inadvertently entailed loss thereof.15:12 02.03.2021
Bill on obligatory evacuation in face of emergency reaches State DumaThe Government has submitted a bill obliging citizens to abandon territories where there is an emergency danger to the lower house of parliament.16:37 01.03.2021
Presidential, parliamentary nominees posts to be obliged to declare cryptocurrency dealsThe Government Law-Making Commission has considered an initiative on the obligatory declaring of cryptocurrency dealings for presidential nominees, parliamentary and governor candidates.13:25 01.03.2021
Russia’s Justice Ministry proposes improved guarantees of jurors’ material securityThe Russian Ministry of Justice has developed and posted for public discussion a bill aimed at increasing the guarantees of material security for jurors.14:52 26.02.2021
Russian MPs propose criminal sanctions for humiliation of Great Patriotic War veteransRussian lawmakers have drafted a bill on criminal punishment for insulting veterans of the Great Patriotic War.17:13 24.02.2021
Putin sets fines for distribution of information on foreign agents without markingPresident Vladimir Putin has signed a bill on fines for distribution of information on individual foreign agents without appropriate marking into law.11:10 24.02.2021
Russia’s Interior Ministry proposes lifelong storage of dactyloscopic dataThe Russian Ministry of Interior has proposed to store personal dactyloscopic data until the respective individual dies or reaches the age of 100, according to a bill presented for the public discussion.10:54 24.02.2021
Unscrupulous providers of state social services to be blacklisted – Russia’s GovernmentEntrepreneurs and organizations providing social services to citizens at the expense of budgetary funds in bad faith are to be put on a special register; the respective procedures have been approved by Chairman of Russia’s Government Mikhail Mishustin.15:01 20.02.2021
Russia’s Justice Ministry to maintain foreign agents registerRussia’s Justice Ministry has developed a draft of a Presidential executive order empowering the body to maintain the register of unregistered nongovernmental associations and individuals performing functions of foreign agents.16:10 19.02.2021
Draft law on punishment for unlawful pre-election campaigning passed by State DumaA bill permitting to block dissemination of pre-election campaign materials where it is done in violation of law passed its third and final reading in Russia’s State Duma on Wednesday.14:22 17.02.2021
Russian senators approve harsh sanctions for inducement to drug use via InternetThe Federation Council, the upper house of Russian parliament, has approved a bill on criminal punishment for online inducement to the drug use and tougher sanctions for the fatal drug propaganda.13:13 17.02.2021
Bill on pretrial blocking of online defamation reaches State DumaA bill envisaging introduction of a procedure for pretrial blocking of information resources disseminating false information, which discredits honor and dignity of a person, has been submitted to the State Duma.12:06 17.02.2021
Severe penalties proposed for begging organization in RussiaLawmakers from the Just Russia party Sergey Mironov and Mikhail Emelyanov have submitted a bill on punishment for the organization of begging to the State Duma.15:55 16.02.2021
State Duma backs harsher punishment for unlawful pre-election campaigningLawmakers of the lower house of Russia’s parliament have supported in the second reading legislative amendments, which will permit to block dissemination of pre-election campaign materials where it is done in violation of law.14:14 16.02.2021
Russia’s Supreme Court submits criminal misdemeanor bill to State DumaThe Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has brought a bill envisaging that 112 legally defined crimes are to be qualified as criminal misdemeanors before the State Duma.12:28 16.02.2021
Bill regulating online social advertising reaches State DumaThe State Duma Committee for Information Policy has submitted to the lower house of Russia’s parliament a bill envisaging amendment of a federal law on advertising as concerns regulation of dissemination of social advertisements over the internet.14:49 11.02.2021
Parliament’s lower house greenlights tough sanctions for Nazism rehabilitationThe State Duma passed a draft law on stiff criminal and administrative penalties for rehabilitation of Nazism with the use of Internet in the first reading on Wednesday.17:22 10.02.2021