Constitution for "led"

Why change something in Chapter 2 of the Constitution of Russia, if you can simply not pay attention to it?

The flurry of legislative initiatives “in the development of an updated constitution” gives an answer to the question of why it was made (and then legislatively developed) amendments that significantly limit the possibilities of the Constitutional Court and the execution of decisions of international courts in Russia. In the presence of constitutional control, even potential, many of the proposed initiatives could not be introduced into the Duma as clearly contradicting chapter 2 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation (on the basic rights of man and citizen), which the guarantor and initiator of the renewal solemnly promised not to touch.

Under the pretext of fighting foreign intervention in Russian policy, which in itself is more reminiscent of the persecution mania, deputies propose to extend the status of “foreign agents” to individuals and their unregistered associations if they receive not only money, but, for example, methodological assistance from abroad. For everyone who touches the foreign “leprosy”, such a regime of reporting and inspections will be introduced that it is just right to go and hang himself (self -destructed in the NGO language).

The concept of “foreign agent” appeared in Russian legislation in 2012 in the form of amendments to the law “On Non -Profit Organizations”. They classified NGOs receiving foreign financing and “engaged in political activity”. Since the latter immediately began to be interpreted as much as possible in the register of “foreign agents” organizations that seemed to be not such activity, these norms were appealed in the Constitutional Court with the support of Vladimir Lukin - at that time the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation.

In the Decree of April 8, 2014, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation wisely judged “both ours and yours”: in the term “foreign agent”, having slightly stood on the territory of linguistics, he did not see anything offensive, but admitted that this status, in addition to submitting appropriate declarations and reports,

It should not attract any infringements in rights for its carriers, that is, discriminate against those who work for honest Russian rubles.

This resolution of the KS is “operating”, but the whole practice of the Ministry of Justice, which maintains a register of “foreign agents”, and subsequent laws adopted on this topic by the number of approximately 35, the position of the Constitutional Court is simply ignored. Thus, “foreign agents” are already prohibited: to put forward candidates for members of the PMC, to send observers to the elections, to claim benefits for “socially oriented” NGOs, to participate in anti-corruption examinations, etc. In fact, all civil servants stopped talking to them, and first of all, security forces and judges, which killed many useful programs.

The initiatives of deputies relate not only to the spread of the status of “foreign agents” to everything that moves, but also the types of activities that are usually engaged in any human associations and simply friendly companies. It is supposed to significantly tighten the procedure for organizing mass shares, for which now it will be necessary to make a separate account and report on it. The bill on the regulation of educational activities, filed under the guise of amendments to the law “On Education”, involves obtaining in one form or another permit for education, that is, in fact, to any public statement. The project is presented in such a general form that the executive authorities will receive a carte blanche to draw up the appropriate crepic lists for all types of organizations and individuals.

The initiatives that are uncontrollably and right before our eyes become the inequality of rights for “good” and “bad” citizens, actually introduce censorship and ban on public associations, infringe on the rights to receive and disseminate information, to expression of their opinion and even to have it: after all, only authorized bodies will be educated. All this directly contradicts Chapter 2 of the Constitution, but where to handle it now? There is no court, but the guarantor does not keep his promises.