Translated material
March 22
"Vedomosti" write that for insulting the feelings of believers in the church, the punishment will be stricter than for the same actions outside the walls of the temple. According to reporters in the leadership of the State Duma, the corresponding amendments will appear to the second reading of the bill, written shortly after the Pussy Riot action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The draft law in the first reading should be considered today. An insult to the feelings of believers will become a criminal offense.
Kommersant says: “The main investigative department of the Russian Investigative Committee did not initiate a criminal case against the ex-deputy from United Russia Alexei Knyshov, who voluntarily left the State Duma in the fall of 2012, after his colleagues accused him of illegal entrepreneurship. According to the test results, they decided that Mr. Knyshov was missing crime.”
Even from today's Kommersant : “After yesterday’s prosecutor’s inspection at the Memorial Foundation, human rights activists plan to sue the NTV. In a report from the Foundation’s office, journalists claimed that employees of the non -profit organization were hiding income from prosecutors - this statement in the“ Memorial ”was regarded as slander. Employees of other NPOs do not exclude what was shot during Revisions in the Memorial Material can be used in the next revealing film like "Anatomy of Protest".
"Independent Gazeta" : Today the prosecutorial bodies will start checking the NGOs in the Altai Territory. As it became known, in the regions they also began to receive "letters of happiness" from the prosecutor's office with a demand to report on whether they receive money from abroad.
Izvestia learned that the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party faction Vadim Solovyov sent a request to the Prosecutor General to explain whether to participate in commercial advertising of entrepreneurial or other commercial activities incompatible with deputy status. He sent similar requests to the Accounts Chamber and the Federal Tax Service. The requests are not about specific deputies of the State Duma, but, according to Izvestia, the audit of the prosecutor’s office and the Federal Tax Service will primarily affect the State Duma deputy, ex -boxer and showman Nikolai Valuev, the hero of the last commercials of MTS. After the deputy of the State Duma, he issued cooperation with a cell operator as creative activity.