Matvienko: Senators will participate in all mass shares

Senators will be present at all protests to monitor the law enforcement practice of the new law on rallies. According to RIA Novosti, the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko reported this. "The Federation Council has already begun to monitor the law enforcement practice of the law, a group of senators visited the opposition rally on June 12 and submitted a report according to the results of observation," Matvienko said. According to her, the purpose of the senators was to evaluate the actions of both the organizers of the rally and the work of the police. “Both parties received a high rating in the report,” Matvienko said.

She clarified that senators will track not only rallies, but also a possible “next stage of judicial measures” for monitoring the law and studying the need to make any changes to it. Matvienko believes that the assessment of senators is needed "as an independent examination of politically not engaged representatives." “As for the rally on June 12, the senators were happy to respond to my order and worked in the fresh air,” the speaker added.

The new law on rallies entered into force on June 9. The Russian Newspaper published the Federal Law on amendments to the Code of the Russian Federation on administrative offenses and to the Federal Law "On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets". " On June 5, the law passed the second and third reading in the State Duma, the next day it was approved by the Federation Council. President Vladimir Putin signed the law on Friday.

The law provides for a fine for individuals for a "violation of the procedure for holding a rally" from 10 to 20 thousand rubles, and when causing damage to health or property - up to 300 thousand rubles. The upper boundary of fines for officials is 600 thousand rubles, and for legal - a million rubles.

Deputies from Fair Russia prepare an appeal to the Constitutional Court in connection with a violation of the regulations for the adoption of the law. The Socialist -Revolutionaries, with the support of the Communists, tried to delay the discussion of the bill by introducing hundreds of amendments. In the second reading, after a multi -hour meeting, 239 deputies spoke out for the bill with the necessary minimum of 226 votes, 207 deputies voted against, one abstained. In the third, final reading, the bill was supported by 241 deputy with a necessary minimum of 226 votes. 147 spoke out against the vote. Deputies from Fair Russia left the meeting room in protest. “Be in private with this anti -people law,” the Socialist Revolutionary leader Sergei Mironov told unicorns. When adopting amendments, unicorn voted for missing comrades in the faction.

The Presidential Council for Human Rights sent Putin a negative expert opinion on the law. "We expect that the head of state will take into account the position of our experts on this issue," said the head of the council Mikhail Fedotov. “This bill moves in the opposite direction from what is necessary today in our society,” he added.

The text of the examination is published on the Council website. "The law does not comply with the Constitution in the procedure for its adoption. The law does not comply with the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the content of the requirements available in it (violated by Article 31). The law contradicts the fundamental principles of the Code of Administrative Offenses, the Criminal Code, as well as the labor and civilian code of the Russian Federation," the conclusion said.