Factions of the Rodina bloc in the State Duma are multiplying by simple division Another battle for the “Motherland” is planned in the State Duma. Since the new year, one of the two Rodina factions (People's Will - SEPR - Patriots of Russia) has been headed by the chairman of the Patriots of Russia party, Gennady Semigin , replacing the vice speaker of the chamber, leader of the People's Will party, Sergei Baburin. .

Some Russian regions still remember that they are federal subjects This week it became known that the Duma ratification of the agreement on the division of powers between Russia and the Republic of Tatarstan is postponed. Last December, there was an assumption that the treaty, approved by Vladimir Putin, could be adopted in the first and only reading today, January 19.

The Ministry of Defense is starting a large-scale modernization of guardhouses The Russian army will increase in number of guardhouses . In total, after the restoration of disciplinary arrest by law, from January 1 of this year, it is planned to revive 183 “main guards” (translated from German) or, in soldier vernacular, “lips”, “kichis” in the armed forces.

Among the problems of the ineffective regional policy of the federal center, one of the main ones remains the problem of developing and preserving the Far East within Russia, where budgetary provision, according to some data, is two times lower than the national average. What the state is doing in this direction and what else should be done, Vremya Novostey correspondent Daria GUSEVA asked Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Svetlana ORLOVA.

Advertising of the Kaliningrad region for potential migrants distorts the real picture The Kaliningrad region , the strategic development program of which was discussed by the federal government at its meeting yesterday, is among the priorities for the resettlement of compatriots living abroad . We are talking about the migration program approved last year by decree of the President of the Russian Federation. Geographical location obliges.

United Russia wants to control election commissions Today, the State Duma will consider in the first reading amendments to the current legislation, repealing the norm on the mandatory presence of a legal education for members of the Central Election Commission and for the heads of election commissions of the constituent entities of Russia.