DumaBingo: how the State Duma that will soon ask for your vote actually votes

DumaBingo: how the State Duma that will soon ask for your vote actually votes

In the fall of 2026, elections to the State Duma will be held. Many deputies of the 8th convocation will run for reelection. Before they start handing out campaign promises, we suggest looking not at their words, but at the voting button.

The DumaBingo project has prepared two studies on how deputies of this convocation passed the most important laws: who introduced them, who resisted them, whose interests they served, and exactly how controversial initiatives made their way through parliament.

🔷The “green” agenda: ecology or business?

Five laws that weakened environmental protections, from clear-cutting around Lake Baikal to stripping protected status from Red Book animals. Behind each one, a specific interest is visible: developers, tourism, extraction, hunting. Nature was consistently sacrificed to the economy.

🔷“No words”: how freedom of speech was restricted

Five laws that changed access to information, from liability for “fakes” to giving the FSB the right to shut down the internet. Over four years, punishment shifted from what a person publishes to what a person searches for.

How are decisions made that affect everyone? And who votes for them by name?

Read about those who will very soon be asking for your vote

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