The State Duma

The use of such applications for personal purposes will not be prohibited.

The State Duma has amended the Federal Law "On Security", which gives the President of Russia the authority to protect Russians from decisions of foreign and international structures. The initiative also proposed amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to punish the execution of such decisions.

In 2001, a group of deputies, consisting mainly of representatives of the Union of Right Forces (SPS) faction, submitted to the State Duma a bill on the exclusion of the death penalty from the Criminal Code (CC). According to Kommersant, the State Duma Council returned the initiative to the authors.

The State Duma in the third reading adopted a law that provides for the extension until the end of 2023 of the period of application to banks by citizens, small and medium-sized businesses for the provision of holidays on consumer loans.

The authorities want to exclude the possibility of ordering and assembling the UPNP device from individual components.

The deputies of the State Duma adopted a law that criminalizes the destruction, illegal collection and trafficking of especially valuable plants and fungi that are listed in the Red Book of Russia or are protected by international treaties.

The deputies of the State Duma adopted a law on the provision of mortgage holidays for citizens affected by natural or man-made emergencies.

Persons who have committed a crime for the first time in the field of illegal entrepreneurship (Article 171), banking (Article 172) or evasion of repatriation of foreign currency earnings (Article 193) will be able to avoid responsibility.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin (pictured) proposed to introduce criminal liability for public calls for the execution of the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and cooperation with the ICC.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that the Russian government currently has no plans to grant the self-employed the right to a tax deduction.

In the near future, the bill will be submitted to the State Duma.

The deputies of the State Duma rejected a bill to reduce the age of criminal responsibility for cruelty to animals from 16 to 14 years.

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.