Day: July 27, 2017

Municipal filter change, but not cancel. Ella Pamfilova has reviewed its position The head of the Central election Commission (CEC) Ella Pamfilova at the meeting with party members in Pyatigorsk, said that to abolish the municipal filter in the elections of heads of regions is not necessary, but “we need to make it more democratic”. Still MS Pamfilova argued for its abolition. In the upcoming gubernatorial election of all the actual competitors acting heads of regions are unable to pass the filter, that did not stop MS Pamfilova to appeal to “conduct fair and transparent elections, which would have caused the confidence of the citizens of the country.” Speaking in Pyatigorsk before the representatives of local branches of parties and public movements, the head of the CEC said that the time has come when it is necessary “to restore confidence in elections.” MS Pamfilova underlined that the position of President,

Putin is allowed to send hackers to the colony for ten years The President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed the law on security of critical information infrastructure (CII), aims to protect against hacker attacks. Document published on the portal of legal information. According to the law, the creation and distribution of malware and viruses for cyber attacks on KII will be punished with imprisonment up to ten years. Hacking or illegal access to information stored on the computers of state institutions will entail punishment in the form of compulsory works for a term up to five years of imprisonment up to three years or fine up to one million rubles. In the case of violations of rules of storage and transmission located in the KII data, which entailed heavy consequences, is also provided for liability: deprivation of liberty from five to ten years and deprivation of the right to occupy

Photo: RIA Novosti The Ministry is prepared to examine the proposal of the Ombudsman for human rights in Russia Tatiana Moskalkova on the establishment of the Environmental code, reports RT with reference to the press service of the Ministry. “We are ready to consider the concept of the bill. We support any decisions, which are aimed at improving the quality of enforcement in environmental regulation,” the Ministry said. Earlier, the Commissioner for human rights in Russia Tatyana Moskalkova said that he considered it necessary to return to the question of the establishment of the Environmental code.

Photo: RIA Novosti The Federation Council at the final spring session meeting on Tuesday approved the law on introduction of criminal liability for the so-called carousel in the elections. The law amends the criminal code of the Russian Federation relating to the establishment of responsibility for illegal issuance and receipt of the ballot, ballot for referendum. These amendments stipulate that, “for the issuance of a member of electoral Commission citizen of ballots for voting instead of other voters or voting more than two times during the voting or the results for completed ballots is punishable with a fine from 200 thousand to 500 thousand rubles or the salary or other income of a convict for a period from 18 months to three years, or compulsory works for a term up to 4 years or the maximum penalty is deprivation of liberty for a term up to four years.” For obtaining