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Draft law on "foreign agents" is borrowed from United States and PACE

12:17 04/07/2012 Amendments proposing to grant a foreign agent status to politically oriented non-profit organizations financed from abroad have been "borrowed" from U.S. legislation and partially taken from the experience and recommendations of countries making up the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

“Political” non-profit organizations to face increasing scrutiny

10:26 04/07/2012 Politically active non-profit organizations in Russia that receive financial support from abroad will be classified as “foreign agents” and will be entered into a designated registry. They will be required to submit special reports and will be subject to discretionary audits. According to various estimates, the law will affect about 1,000 organizations.

Lawmakers ask Constitutional Court to check protest law

16:54 03/07/2012 The State Duma will submit an appeal to the Constitutional Court to check the law on increasing fines for violating rally procedures in terms of its compliance with the Constitution.

State Duma may adopt draft law on website blacklist in first reading

14:20 03/07/2012 The State Duma plans to consider on July 6 in its first hearing a draft law on creating a unified register of domains and websites with information prohibited for distribution, including child pornography, and information promoting drugs and suicide.

Human Rights Council head criticizes draft law on non-profit organizations

12:13 03/07/2012 Presidential Human Rights Council Chairman Mikhail Fedotov does not support the draft law assigning certain Russian non-profit organizations a foreign agent status.

Amendments to noncommercial organizations law propose prison terms

16:26 29/06/2012 Amendments to the draft law on granting noncommercial organizations financed from abroad a foreign agent status stipulate introducing administrative and criminal punishment - up to four year imprisonment - for not complying with the law.

Chief bailiff proposes warnings instead of fines

15:50 28/06/2012 Chief Bailiff Artur Parfenchikov proposed replacing small fines with warnings at a roundtable in the State Duma on Thursday.

Russian MP deems 'Magnitsky bill' breach of presumption of innocence

18:30 27/06/2012 The “Magnitsky Act's” endorsement by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is in breach of the presumption of innocence, as the sanctions against Russian officials are to be adopted without proving their guilt, State Duma Deputy Andrey Klimov said on Wednesday.

Russia to retaliate ‎with Guantanamo list over US sanctions

16:27 27/06/2012 Lawmaker Vyacheslav Nikonov has proposed drafting a “Guantanamo list,” or a “Bout list,” in response to the United States adopting a bill that would impose sanctions on Russian officials.

Russia's Civil Code reshuffle meets business interests

15:54 27/06/2012 Public and business community's opinions were thoroughly analyzed and taken into consideration while preparing the restated Civil Code for the second reading in parliament, lawmaker Alexander Remezkov said.

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