
Plenary meeting of the State Duma of Russia. Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin / Kommersant
Photos of empty chairs, playing balls on the phone, a sweet dream of another lawmaker seized in the operator’s lens - voters have previously accused the parliamentarians of nothing once. I even had to adopt a populist law on the deprivation of a mandate for a month of absenteeism.
Now everything is in the past: after February 24, deputies mobilized so that the number of meetings themselves increased from two to three per week. And here is the result: 653 of the law - a record number - was adopted by the Russian State Duma last year.
Such an intense work for the benefit of the population, of course, is not easy for everyone. For example, deputy Gurulev, as we recently said, managed to make the Duma rostrum twice, and presenting the same bill. But he more than compensates for this, speaking on television screens. Not everyone will pull such a frequency of appearance on Solovyov’s air. An evil person will reproach him for the absence of personal legislative initiatives, but there is something to answer: in the current convocation this is a trend, projects are entered collectively. One head is good, and 389 is better. That is how many authors have such a law that so much in our difficult time on the prohibition of LGBT propaganda.
Inter -party ranges moved aside. Harmony reigned such that even the most controversial initiatives no longer caused contradictions. Gryzlov with his legendary: “Parliament is not a place for discussions,” and did not dream of.
For example, on February 15, 2022, 351 deputies out of 450 voted for an appeal to the president of the recognition of the independence of the DPR and the LPR, which was an obvious step to clash with Ukraine on the battlefield. But everything was just beginning.
For the October laws on joining the same territories, plus the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions have already voted almost everyone: from 413 to 409 deputies (for joining the “republics” - more than the last two subjects). Against - not one.
Not a single deputy cast a vote against the bills of discredit and fakes about the army - the very ones that are now paying fines and unconscious compatriots are sitting in the pre -trial detention center. They took them with lightning speed - per day. The laws are exclusively in demand: for only only discrediting from Russians to the treasury they collected 200 million rubles already in the form of fines.
No one voted against the law on electronic summons. It was immediately introduced by 67 authors, vying, trying to speed up their voters visit to the military registration and enlistment office - without unnecessary bureaucracy.
The project on the ban on the identification of the actions of Nazi Germany and the USSR did not cause disagreement either. As well as about extra -court media blocks. Almost ⅔ new laws were adopted unanimously.

The symphony of the right and left affected those who carry the black mark of the “smart voting” (the FBK project recognized in Russia with an extremist organization). Most of the 15 deputies supported by him, on fundamental issues, make decisions similarly to the parliamentary majority. The propagandists scolded this venture in vain. Watch how good they vote! Almost everyone whom the authors of the project positioned as a counterbalance of EP are pressed on the buttons in the same way as their supposedly opponents.
Here are the buttons from this and suffer. The procedure for adopting any law is long and multi -stage. Each step votes. No wonder other candid deputies admitted : it is impossible to sit. And the equipment should be sorry - it is now tight with equipment.
And how to catch everything? After all, the consideration of the bill can take from several months to several years. For example, the law on domestic violence has been trying to adopt since 2016, it has been deviated several times, put on the agenda again, but has not yet been adopted. Well, violence will not go anywhere. But what about more urgent? How to react to a current agenda if the hand reaches for the voting card, and before that voting is still weeks and months?
Is it possible not to take the ban on discrediting the Armed Forces a week after the start of it? How did it succeed? Now we will demonstrate a life hack!
In camp folklore there is the concept of “canned food” - this is a friend whom you take with you to escape. If the path is delayed, “canned” eats.
They found “canned food” in parliament-bills once adopted in the first reading and forgotten. At the right time, they can be opened, the second and final reading is presented immediately - and plunge the right correction, for the sake of which everything is started.
What a donor project, whose body is enjoyed by a stranger, is in essence. As well as that: who, when and why he introduced him. The right amendment will unfold everything in the right direction.
From such a plus. Actual initiatives simply bypass the first, most difficult and detailed reading of the project. Grying!
The first reading discusses the general concept, the main provisions, and the compliance of the constitution is evaluated. The conclusions of factions, relevant committees, government, invited persons are obeyed. In the first reading, the Duma, in addition, may decide on the adoption of a new law for a popular discussion.
This is the most public stage, implying the widest discussion. It is at the stage of the first reading that most bills are eliminated. Is it possible to take this risk?
For example, take the same “discrediting of the army”. Would the law on her examination be passed on the compliance of the Constitution? Not a fact, an unchanged 29th article of the Basic Law, which guarantees freedom of speech and expressions of opinions, interferes. And if this opinion is against his?
Another problem is Article 13, which has banned ideology. After all, if the node can ride in Moscow with cardboard flesh of missiles on trunk, and the same gurulev-to call on to shy around the Kyiv "Motherland", then the pacifists take to go to the pickets. Of course, they will deal with her, of course with this article: the head of the Ministry of Justice of Chuychenko has long been happy for her cancellation. Well, for now?

Another trouble. The first reading evaluates the compliance of the project with formal requirements, its legal quality. And in the law on discrediting the army, the concept of discrediting is not disclosed - they would surely have closed. Well, there is no such legal definition - and now what? The inquiry officer is a person is procedurally independent, the court is independent. Let them interpret themselves. And it will turn out to be continuous pluralism: in Murmansk, they will be fined for a ribbon on a backpack, and in St. Petersburg they can let go, one court will see in five stars a word of five letters in Russia, and the other is just a wobble. Our right is not precedent, and in general Russia is a federal state. Excess confirmation of this is the young Chechen Order -bearer with a gold pistol on the hip.
How did all this not come out in the first reading? And there was no first reading. There were amendments to the bill of 2021 that had already passed it. It was about money laundering (fines for transactions with criminally acquired). The purpose of the project, as reported in the explanatory note, was to bring the legislation in line with international requirements. Is international requirements now?
But on March 3, 2022, the “Conserva” came in handy. Deputies Piskarev, Kartapolov, Alshevsky, Butina, Lugovoi and Nilov inserted new points: discrediting and calls for the introduction of restrictive measures against the Russian Federation or Russians. And one more important amendment: these points come into force from the day of official publication, while the rest of the law (the very same, about money laundering) is only six months later. In the second and final reading, the project was accepted on March 4 - to swallow a normative invasion, the Duma was enough for days. And already on March 9, the Amur Region drew up the first protocol under a new article. Since then, Article 20.3.3 has become folk - at least 9,500 cases of administrative offenses have already been instituted on it.
We do not sit back: on the same day, March 4, another law was adopted - on repeated discredit (this is a criminal, there are already at least 130 cases). The same project also “military fakes”, which threaten a real term for the dissemination of information about hostilities, not approved by the official speakers of the Ministry of Defense or Foreign Ministry. According to this law, Alexei Gorinov was planted for 7 years - for a word of five letters, Ilya Yashin* - for 8.5 years per air on social networks.
The corresponding amendments were also made only on the eve of the vote and the same group of deputies, which used the same method: amendments to the law that had already passed the first reading of another bill. This time is a draft law on criminal liability for the implementation of sanctions against the Russian Federation. In the Duma, he was lying since the spring of 2018.
Practice, of course, is new, so not without flaws. Two weeks after the adoption of the law on “discrediting” it had to be returned: in a hurry, his action was forgotten to extend to Russian government agencies abroad (the spindlers, meanwhile, fell upon the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and personally the special representative of the Russian Federation at the UN Nonvanism). This time, this time was the bill (introduced in 2021) - on fire safety violations in the forests.
He proposed distinguishing the compositions of administrative and criminally punishable acts that entailed forest fires with negligence. It was considered slowly and the first reading was only in January 2022. And then it caught fire in another place: on March 18, the deputies of Khinshtein, Pankin, Piskarev and senators Turchak and Klishas who joined them proposed to introduce administrative responsibility for "discrediting the execution by the state bodies of the Russian Federation of their powers outside the territory of the Russian Federation." And criminal - in the case of the repeated commission of similar acts. March 22, 2022 - accepted.

Then it turned out, they missed something again. On March 1, 2023, deputies Volodin, Yarovaya, Piskarev and Kartapolov brought new amendments. Now - about the discrediting of "volunteer formations." “Wagner's amendment was introduced into a bill on fines for the dissemination of instructions for the manufacture of ammunition in the media.
It was introduced in December 2022, already during his. But then the media did not write so much about Prigozhin's prison project. And in the spring, the discussion of the prison biographies of his fighters was at the peak of interest. And the draft amendments were born, which were adopted in two weeks. And a few months later, Wagner raised the rebellion, and the deputies thought about whether the information about this was discrediting. A new bill arose - with a proposal to exclude from the field of action everything committed by volunteers outside the combat zone. But the Supreme Court gave him a negative review. But another project was adopted:
The law on military fakes was expanded to the same volunteers and tightened from 5 to 7 years the criminal liability for re -discrediting the army. The authors are again Volodin, Yarovaya, Piskarev, and Kartapolov.
The scheme is the same: amendments to the project made at the end of 2022 - on punishment for penetration of a protected object. On March 14 of this year, in the second reading, he was accepted.
Against the background of difficulties with import substitution, to save the buttons for voting from depreciation is a state business. And to protect the necessary bills from unnecessary risks when discussing - even more so. To save the effort and time of people's representatives, you can probably completely refuse to discuss the entered projects. After all, everything is clear.
Once in one regional parliament, the opposition proposed to ban the transfer of cards for voting. The initiative caused the sincere surprise of the vice-speaker (in the past-the captain of the 1st rank). He unscarriedly asked his colleagues, why should they ban something to themselves, because they are already “best people”! Colleagues, of course, agreed.