NThe draft law on foreign agents submitted to the State Duma provides for the possibility of entering into the register of persons and organizations under “foreign influence” and the creation of a single list of the Ministry of Justice for all categories of foreign agents
Andrey Klishas
It is not necessary to change the law often in the sphere where regulation is just being formed, but it is worth generalizing the norms from different normative acts, the head of the Constitutional committee of the Federation Council Andrei Klishas told RBC. So he commented on the possible amendments to the legislation on foreign agents.
“Constantly changing the law in an area where regulation has not yet developed,” he said, “is the way to nowhere.” Prior to that, the senator said that, in his opinion, it is now necessary to develop legislative practice before making a decision on making any changes to the law. “First of all, it is necessary to be guided by national state interests and the position of the number of bodies that are endowed with the rights of regulators in this area,” Klishas said during the forum “Digital sovereignty of Russia in the conditions of information war.”
Earlier, RBC got acquainted with the text of amendments to the legislation on foreign agents prepared by members of the State Duma commission to investigate the facts of foreign interference in the internal affairs of Russia.
The authors of the documents were members of the State Duma commission to investigate the facts of foreign interference in the internal affairs of Russia. These are 15 deputies, including Maria Butina, Oleg Matveichev and Yevgeny Revenko from “United Russia”, Andrei Lugovoy (LDPR) and Mikhail Delyagin (“Fair Russia” For the Truth”), co-authors were senators Andrei Klimov, Vladimir Jabarov and Elena Afanasyeva.
The authors of the bill proposed to consider as foreign agents those who receive support from abroad or are “under foreign influence in other forms”, and also conducts at least one of the following types of political activities, collecting information about the military and military-technical activities of Russia, distributing messages and materials for unlimited number of persons or participation in the creation of such messages.
It is proposed to consider the provision of support by a foreign source (for example, a foreign state, its authorities, international organizations) or the provision of influence by them, including through coercion, persuasion. It follows from the text of the initiative that for inclusion in the register there is no longerwe will need foreign financing. When asked by RBC how it can be proved that someone was influenced by coercion and persuasion, one of the co-authors of the bill, MP Andrei Lugovoy, said that this wording was proposed for the first reading of the bill, and it is planned to explain it in more detail by the second.
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The bill also suggests other changes: it prohibits foreign agents from organizing public events, conducting teaching, educational, educational activities for children and producing information products for them. It also combines four existing registers of foreign agents into one and allows individuals-foreign agents not to indicate this status in personal publications in social networks.
The document also provides for a single procedure for exclusion from the register. This will be possible based on the results of an audit by the Ministry of Justice, during which it should be established that within a year after filing an application for exclusion, the applicant did not receive foreign funding or assistance, nor did he conduct political and other activities described in the draft law.
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