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Since 2014, Russia has been defined in the United States as an adversary at the legislative level, and it is also stated there that this norm must be implemented by the OSCE. This was stated by the chairman of the commission, Senator Andrei Klimov, during a meeting of the Federation Council Commission on protecting state sovereignty and preventing interference in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I am sure that in the OSCE there is one...

The newly created parliamentary commission, which will investigate the crimes of the Kyiv regime against children, intends to work in the same format as the previous commission on secret American biological laboratories in Ukraine, Georgia and other states. Senator from Sevastopol, member of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Sergei Kolbin, former commander of the Sevastopol Berkut, reported this to First Sevastopol, reports...

Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko today came up with a resonant initiative that generated discussion in society. She proposed to impose a moratorium on the actions of Federal Law 44, which provides for the holding of a competition in the development of state budget funds allocated for infrastructure projects, until the end of the SVO. The idea came to Matvienko after a speech by Senator Nikolai Zhuravlev, who reported on the use of federal funds by the regions, reports...

The money collected by the senators was used to purchase uniforms, heat guns, unmanned aerial vehicles and other things needed by the mobilized. First Vice Speaker Andrei Turchak stated this at a meeting of the Federation Council today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The funds raised have already been used to purchase uniforms for the fighters. This includes clothing, maskhalats and sleeping bags, which will be received by more than 200 thousand people. Also…

The Federation Council of the Russian Federation unanimously ratified the treaties on the entry of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions into Russia, and also approved federal constitutional laws on the admission of these regions to Russia. As speaker Valentina Matvienko noted, all senators who were absent from the hall (exclusively for good reasons) support the adopted laws and are ready to confirm this in writing. Not against...

The Federation Council issued a statement on the eve of the International Day of Parliamentarism. It states that the aggressive actions of the collective West undermine the generally recognized principles and norms of international law, including those enshrined in the UN Charter, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Federation Council stands for the preservation and development of the potential of the Inter-Parliamentary Union as a platform for an equal exchange of views between national parliaments, notes...

Britain “in boorish form” refused to issue entry visas to members of the Russian delegation, which was supposed to take part in the annual session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Birmingham on July 2-6. Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov announced this today at a meeting of the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Such discriminatory actions by the British side against the Russian parliamentary delegation are a direct and gross violation...

To strengthen deterrent measures against passengers who violate the rules of conduct on board, the Russian Federation will join the 2014 Montreal Protocol. This was stated by the head of the air navigation support department of the Department of State Policy in the Field of Civil Aviation of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Stepanko, during a meeting of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The bill was developed by the Ministry of Transport...

The Federation Council approved amendments to the federal law, according to which a case regarding the production or sale of narcotic and psychotropic substances cannot be initiated based on the fact that a person is intoxicated. The document was presented during a meeting of the upper chamber by the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, Andrei Klishas, ​​reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. He recalled that this...

Residents of Moscow hostels came to the Federation Council building today to talk about their problems. They were inspired to take action by Senator Lyudmila Narusova, who in early March disgraced herself by calling “homeless-looking people” the participants in single pickets near the Federation Council, who demanded punishment for Mikhail Gorbachev for the collapse of the USSR. Residents of hostels claim that they are being turned into homeless by the Moscow authorities, who do not...

Senator Ilyas Umakhanov has been appointed special representative of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation for the preparation of the World Conference on Interethnic and Intercultural Dialogue, which will be held in Moscow in May 2022, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This is the largest international event in recent years, since it is expected that heads of state, leaders of all world religions, and parliamentarians will take part in it. The conference is being held under the auspices of the UN and...

The Federation Council adopted a bill on fines imposed on foreign agents, approved the day before by the State Duma in the second and third readings. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the adopted changes to the Code of Administrative Offenses allow a foreign agent NGO to be fined up to five million rubles if a legal entity conducts illegal activities. If an NPO conducts its activities without labeling itself as a foreign agent, then the fine...

The Federation Council of the Russian Federation unanimously adopted a Statement in connection with the violation of the principle of freedom of speech by global American Internet companies. Document No. 13 was presented by the Chairman of the Federation Council Temporary Commission on Information Policy and Interaction with the Media Aleksey Pushkov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Federation Council strongly condemns the actions of global American Internet companies that, for political reasons, without legal grounds and contrary to international law...

The Federation Council approved amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) of the Russian Federation, which introduce fines for illegal advertising of nitrous oxide (“laughing gas”). The corresponding decision was made during a plenary meeting of the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The document was presented by Senator Oleg Tsepkin. According to him, for propaganda or illegal advertising of “laughing” gas, a fine of...