Regulator of initiatives

For more than a year now, there has been a norm in Russia according to which all public initiatives signed by more than one hundred thousand people are submitted for consideration by the government. Even a special website has been created. Of course, nowhere is it said that the very fact of collecting a sufficient number of signatures for a particular public petition implies at least some kind of response from the authorities. For example, when Novaya Gazeta collected more than one hundred thousand signatures under a call to repeal the Law banning the adoption by US citizens of orphans from Russia, the authorities shamelessly ignored this mass appeal. Now, on the initiative of Prime Minister Medvedev, a special commission has been created that will regulate the process - that is, some petitions will be recognized as worthy of the government’s attention, and others will not. Moreover, already at the preliminary stage. It's clear why this was done. So that it would be impossible to even measure public support for proposals that the authorities consider inappropriate. This commission included mainly people known for their unconditional and blind devotion to the ruling regime. Such, for example, as Senator Gattarov or deputies Schlegel and Zheleznyak.