Law

According to a TASS source in law enforcement agencies, acting deputy governors Elena Egorova and Tatiana Kuleshova have been detained. They are suspected of taking bribes on a particularly large scale.

A group of deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg initiated consideration of a bill on fines for walking dangerous breeds of dogs without a muzzle.

The Georgian Dream bloc has withdrawn a bill on foreign agents from the Georgian parliament, the introduction of which provoked mass protests throughout the country.

More than a thousand opponents of the bill on foreign agents, adopted by the Parliament of Georgia in the first reading the night before, came to the central Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi. The action resumed after the riot police dispersed it at night. Traffic on Rustaveli Avenue is blocked.

The State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation supported amendments to the Administrative Code and the Criminal Code, providing for tougher penalties for discrediting volunteers and other participants in a special operation up to 15 years in prison and fines up to 5 million rubles.

The President signed the relevant law.

The leader of "Fair Russia - For the Truth" party noted that the reason is the threats to the state's national security.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has allowed foreigners to sign their first contract to serve in the Russian army for a period of one year, not five years.

After the devastating earthquakes in Turkey, the authorities arrested more than 340 people on charges of looting or violating building construction rules.

The deputies of the State Duma in the second and third readings adopted a law that gives the government the right to suspend the provision and dissemination of official statistical information of Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the State Duma to speed up consideration of the draft law on ecological tourism in specially protected natural areas (protected areas).