For the wives of “SMO heroes,” IVF; for city residents, paying to fight potholes themselves; for bribe-takers, execution. Deputies of the outgoing Duma are competing in populist laws ahead of the elections

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🗳🖨 For the wives of “SMO heroes,” IVF; for city residents, paying to fight potholes themselves; for bribe-takers, execution. Deputies of the outgoing Duma are competing in populist laws ahead of the elections

The eighth-convocation State Duma is finishing its work in July, and deputies seeking re-election are beginning to campaign. They are hurrying to introduce PR initiatives: MO has selected several of the brightest examples, illustrating the pre-election brainstorming on Okhotny Ryad.

📝Posthumous fatherhood under compulsory health insurance for those killed in the war. Amendments by United Russia members to the Family Code, allowing widows and wives of participants in the “SMO” to undergo IVF for free at the expense of compulsory health insurance funds, have already passed first reading. For a child born in the “postmortem period” — more than 300 days after the parent’s death — to officially have a father, the serviceman must, while still alive, execute a notarized consent for the use of his biomaterial and for himself to be recorded as the parent. The fighter may approve the future child’s first and last name in advance or delegate that choice to the mother. Despite the fact that such children are guaranteed never to see their fathers, the authors of the bill seriously write that all this “strengthens the family” and supports demographics. The amendments are being introduced ahead of the start of the July sessions. Dmitry Vyatkin, deputy head of the United Russia faction, clarifies that by the end of the convocation the faction has 13 initiatives aimed at protecting participants in the “SMO” and their families.

📝Military personnel and judges will be protected from creditors. The LDPR is lobbying a bill banning bailiffs from seizing housing savings of military personnel, police officers, prosecutors, and judges to cover their personal debts. According to Rosvoenipoteka, more than 3,500 such accounts are currently under arrest, and this figure is constantly growing. In the explanatory note, the authors give an unexpected argument: they call writing off money for debts “misuse of budget funds”, since the treasury allocated it for buying an apartment, not for security officials to pay off their loans.

📝 The death penalty for corruption. Deputies from A Just Russia decided to import the methods of Eastern despotisms into the Russian Criminal Code by proposing to punish with death corruption that causes damage to defense capability. The bill equates embezzlement in state defense orders and the construction of fortifications with espionage and treason, calling them “betrayal of the vital interests of society.” At the St. Petersburg Legal Forum, Investigative Committee chief Bastrykin approved of shooting bribe-takers in China — he also supports such a punishment. In the explanatory note there is a call to follow the “successful practice” of China, Vietnam, and Thailand (the same thing Investigative Committee chief Bastrykin did at the legal forum): the authors seriously admire how the “public carrying out of sentences” (executions in public squares) becomes a “powerful preventive factor.” The authors were in such a hurry that, contrary to procedure, they did not obtain opinions from the Supreme Court and the government.

📝The battle over potholes. The New People party wants to please citizens with whatever it can — the right to patch a pothole near their home themselves. Deputies proposed excluding administrative liability for “unauthorized repair” of local roads and courtyard areas. The explanatory note contains a collection of bureaucratic surrealism: for example, in Perm Krai, a 70-year-old pensioner was fined for trying to reinforce a washed-out road with ordinary slab wood. But the government is not yet ready for such easing: in its opinion it replied that the authors of the bill want to “effectively legalize violations of the law.”

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For the wives of SMO participants — IVF, for villagers — roads

What they are rushing to ban, permit, and execute in the State Duma before the elections