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The power ban rallies and marches in Elections

Soon, the authorities will be able to obtain the right to prohibit any pickets, rallies and marches for two weeks before the election and during the same period after polling day. In Parliament introduced a bill that restricts itself holding mass meetings, as well as the range of individuals and associations, which they organize. According to the deputies, the authors of the bill, there are such restrictions in the laws of other countries.

also received a proposal to allow the authorities to cancel any public event, if officials find any confirmed information on the pre-prepared wrongdoing. Shares will be banned and if the organizers were those convicted of crimes and extremist direction on the day of the filing of a notice of the event and outstanding unexpunged convictions for such crimes.

eve of a series of amendments to the law “On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets “imposing additional restrictions on the holding of mass meetings, a group of deputies introduced the Russian State Duma. Most of the sponsors of the amendments, members of “Unified Russia party, moreover, among them two members of the homeland” and “one deputy from the LDPR.

Source newspaper “Kommersant” in the Kremlin rejected on the involvement of representatives of the executive branch to draft legislation. However, he said, in the Kremlin expect it, because his proposed amendment to the existing law on mass actions are “correct”.