For protests answer by law. According to a new law

Protest Protest in Moscow January 31

Forbidden initiatives - traditional already in Russia response to protest activity. For those who have passed in support of Alexey Navalny Action, power responded in the usual manner. And although not every of these ideas is directly connected with the activities of oppositionists and their supporters, in general, the civil rights rendered a strike. If you suddenly missed something - read the Hyde of Vtimes in the most fresh "twisting nuts" initiatives.

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The bill collects reviews - is considered by the State Duma's profile committee - the State Duma in three readings - the law adopts the Federation Council - signs the president - published in the "Russian newspaper" and enters into legal force.

Penalties for meetings

The essence of the sentence

• The penalty for disobedience to the legitimate requirements of law enforcement officers for citizens will be from 2000 to 4,000 rubles (currently from 500 to 1000 rubles). For a re-violation of recovery from 10,000 to 20,000 rubles. Alternative punishment will double - up to 30 days of administrative arrest. Mandatory work appeared: up to 120 hours for the first violation and up to 200 hours for repeated.
• Responsibility is introduced for violation of the procedure for collecting, transferring and spending money on organizing and conducting a rally. The organizers of the rallies undertake to provide a bodily agreement, a report on the expenditure of funds. Article 20.2 of the Coop completed two new parts providing for individuals a fine of 10,000-20,000 rubles or up to 40 hours of mandatory work. For officials, the penalty will be from 20,000 to 40,000 rubles, for Yurlitz - from 70,000 to 200,000 rubles.

Who suggested: State Duma deputy Dmitry Vyatkin (United Russia).

The step of adoption: approved by the Federation Council.

Tightening the punishment for the involvement of minors to rallies

The essence of the sentence

The involvement of children and adolescents in unauthorized rallies should be punished with imprisonment for up to five years, and declining to the organization of mass riots - up to 10 years. Now the punishment for such an act is administrative: penalties up to 50,000 rubles. for physical and 100,000 rubles. For officials.

Who suggested: State Duma deputy Evgeny Marchenko (United Russia).

Adoption Stage: Collection Collection. Conceptually, the draft law supported the investigative committee of Russia and the Supreme Court. Negative feedback came from the government - they stated there that there are enough measures, since in addition to the Camera article there is responsibility in case the minor at the rally will suffer.

What else the authorities respond to protest activity

• Roskomnadzor was the protocols on administrative violations on social networks for distributing calls for children to illegal shares. Such received Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, "In Contact", "Odnoklassniki", YouTube Telegram. Earlier, the Office obliged the social network to remove appeals to the participation of minors in illegal rallies.
• The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia before the unauthorized authorities of the shares on January 23 and 31, made it possible to 4,000 caution. Similar warnings were sent to the leaders of Russian and foreign Internet companies. According to the deputy head of the management of the Prosecutor General's Office Alexei Zhafyarov, they were often "ignored". In this regard, he suggested that parliamentarians think about financial punishment for Internet sites, where adolescents place appeals to participate in illegal shares.
• Roskomnadzor threatened the media by fines and blockages for "the spread of overpriced indicators about the number of participants in illegal rallies, about alleged the facts of violence and clashes, the death of participants in shares." Thus, it is possible to officially report about the number of rally only with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs - their data is greatly varying with estimates, for example, the "white counter".
• The Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin proposed to legally establish criminal liability for calls for the introduction of foreign sanctions against citizens of Russia. So he answered the appeals of FBK to the United States and Europe to introduce sanctions against a number of people close to the Kremlin. Press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov said that such initiatives "have in demand". In the form of a bill, it has not yet been issued.
• The second reading was held a bill on fines for the failure to fulfill the law on the so-called sovereign runet - operators must rebuild traffic routing in such a way as to reduce the amount of data transmitted abroad. As the authors of the initiative believes, it should ensure the smoothness of the Internet in the case of a hypothetical "disconnection" of Russia from the global network.
• It is important that the same law gives Roskomnadzor to restrict access to the sites prohibited in Russia. According to the current draft law, operators are threatened with fines up to 3 million rubles. For violations of the requirements taken earlier. Failure to the owner of the information resource involved in "violations of the fundamental rights and freedoms of humans, the rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation", warnings about the need to stop the unlawful actions will entail fines from 50,000 to 3 million rubles.
• Deputy of the State Council of Bashkiria, Vladimir Nagorno, developed a bill, providing for the deduction from an educational institution for students visiting unresolved rallies. But the initiative criticized the head of the Republic of Radia Habirov, and Nagorno decided not to make a bill.