On October 14, the State Duma immediately passed in the second and third readings a bill that allows banks and other financial organizations to transfer clients’ personal data and information constituting banking secrecy to third-party organizations without their consent. Only accredited IT companies and banks with a universal license will be able to process such data, provided the conditions established by law are met.

#THIS #Banks #TheStateDuma #Personaldata #Russia

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The State Duma has passed in the first reading a bill that allows conscript soldiers to be assigned to military units of the Federal Fire Service (FPS) of EMERCOM. The explanatory note to the document says the measure should reduce the «current personnel shortfall in the FPS».

#AlexandrKurenkov #TheStateDuma #MES #Fires #Russia #Srochniki

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The St. Petersburg administration has banned foreign citizens with a work patent from working in healthcare, hairdressing services, cosmetology, retail trade, and the field of physical culture and wellness. The restriction will remain in effect until the end of this year.

#TheStateDuma #eez #KrokusSitiHoll #migracionnajapolitika #StPetersburg #Smolnyi

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On September 30, the government submitted to the State Duma, together with the draft budget for 2027–2029, a bill that postpones the payment of a lump-sum benefit and insurance to the families of fallen servicemen: the money is proposed to be transferred no later than 30 days after a six-month review of documents and circumstances. The Budget Committee proposed considering the document in its first reading on October 29.

#TheStateDuma #KomitetGosdumypooborone #MES #PravitelstvoRossii #Customs #fsin

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The CPRF faction on Tuesday did not support the government report on budget execution for 2025 in the State Duma. Deputy Anatoly Lokot explained this by the budget’s «systemic problems» and by the fact that the «burden of war» should be distributed evenly across all Russians.

#AlexandrLokot #budget #TheStateDuma #CommunistParty #RussianUkrainianWar

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State Duma deputies from United Russia, Vasily Piskarev and Eduard Valeev, have prepared a bill to toughen punishment for public calls to terrorism and mass riots. The government supported the initiative, TASS reported, citing the cabinet’s official response.

#TheStateDuma #UnitedRussia #Bills #OVDInfo #repressions #Russia

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The EU Council on October 12 finally approved the largest expansion of the sanctions list since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine: 1,646 natural and legal persons were hit by restrictions. The list includes 826 enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex, their executives, and 77 people whom Brussels linked to elections to the State Duma in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

#TheStateDuma #EuropeanUnion #IskanderM #KajaKallas #Russia #CounciloftheEU

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The Ust-Labinsk District Court fined «Proekt» journalist Alexander Savelyev 10,000 rubles in a case involving participation in the activities of an undesirable organization. The reason was «Proekt’s» study «Fathers and Grandfathers», in which Savelyev is listed among the co-authors.

#AlexandrSavelev #TheStateDuma #project #UstLabinskdistrict #FSB

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The government has submitted to the State Duma a bill to raise the maximum age for military service for women from 45 to 50 years. For women in reserve, it is proposed to raise the age limit to 55 years for officers and to 50 years for other ranks.

#militaryservice #warwithUkraine #TheStateDuma #women #PravitelstvoRossii

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Gennady Zyuganov said at a plenary session of the State Duma that Russia is on the brink of a major war, and called 2029–2030 the time of the European countries’ «hot offensive». He made this statement during deputies’ speeches on current issues.

#VladimirPutin #TheStateDuma #zyuganov #CommunistParty #NATO #NurembergTrials

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Funding for the federal project to combat oncological diseases in 2027 will be reduced to 3.873 billion rubles from 44.896 billion this year. The project, which planned purchases of equipment, medicines, and measures for early diagnosis, follows from the explanatory note to the draft budget law.

#TheStateDuma #healthcare #oncology #Alongandactivelife #Thecountryssanitaryshield #federalbudget

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The government submitted to the State Duma a bill that roughly doubles the lower and upper limits of fines for violations of public order and safety. The amendments will affect, among other things, the rules for holding rallies, discrediting the army, and a number of other articles of the Administrative Offenses Code.

#TheStateDuma #Discreditingthearmy #coap #MinistryofInternalAffairsoftheRussianFederation #Rallies #RFgovernment #Russia #Fines

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The State Duma Committee on Security approved a bill that allows conscript soldiers to be involved in firefighting and emergency rescue operations as part of military units of the Federal Fire Service (FPS). Deputies of the new, ninth convocation are recommended to adopt the document in the first reading.

#ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #TheStateDuma #MES #Fires #Russia #Conscripts

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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted two resolutions — on the elections in Russia and on the ECHR’s refusal to consider 879 applications from Russians. In the elections document, PACE proposes not recognizing the new State Duma as the democratically elected and legitimate representative of Russian citizens.

#AntiWarCommitteeofRussia #TheStateDuma #espch #PACE #Russia #Ukraine

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The Russian government submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the federal budget for 2027 and the planning period of 2028–2029; the order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. In 2027, spending is planned at 48.8 trillion rubles, revenues at 43.3 trillion, and the deficit will amount to 5.5 trillion.

#VladimirPutin #TheStateDuma #mole #NationalDefense #nationalprojects #federalbudget

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A week after the State Duma elections, in the Yakut village of Khoro, school director Vladislav Ivanov and kindergarten director Sargylana Evdokimova were dismissed. Local authorities did not explain the reasons, and at two polling stations in the village, the CPRF outpolled United Russia.

#Publicsectoremployees #Elections2026 #TheStateDuma #UnitedRussia #CommunistParty #SakhaYakutia

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The CEC completed the distribution of seats in the State Duma of the ninth convocation after more than 50 candidates from United Russia declined parliamentary seats. The party won 349 of 450 seats, and 46 people associated with the war against Ukraine entered the new convocation.

#WarinUkraine #ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #Elections2026 #TheStateDuma #UnitedRussia #CommunistParty #LDPR #OkkupaciaUkrainy #cyc

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By the start of the autumn session, chicken Kyiv was renamed in the State Duma cafeteria. The dish is now called «cutlet with butter» and costs 270 rubles.

#TheNewYorkTimes #AlexandrJunashev #TheStateDuma #Kirov #RussianMinistryofForeignAffairs #Ukraine

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Political scientist Alexander Kynev was hospitalized after his detention in the pretrial detention center hospital «Matrosskaya Tishina» in Moscow. According to a source for the «Word of Protection» project in Medical Unit No. 77 of the Federal Penitentiary Service, he was brought there in a condition of moderate severity, diagnosed with two tibia fractures, and the Federal Penitentiary Service has launched an investigation.

#AlexanderKynev #TheStateDuma #UnitedRussia #repressions #prison #fsin

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In a written interview with RBC, Sergei Mironov said that «A Just Russia» narrowly made it into the State Duma because of Russians’ disappointment in the authorities. According to him, some of the party’s supporters did not turn out to vote amid negativity linked to the difficulties caused by the SVO.

#TheStateDuma #UnitedRussia #SergeyMironov #specialmilitaryoperation #FairRussia #cyc

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