Duma will debate bill tightening sanctions for violations at rallies on Tuesday
MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - The Russian State Duma will not remove the bill tightening sanctions for violations at mass rallies from today's agenda, as the three opposition faction demanded.
But it has changed the timeframe of the debates and will debate the bill at 12:30 p.m., not at 4 p.m. as scheduled initially, an Interfax correspondent reported.
Two hundred and nine deputies voted to remove the bill from the agenda, but this number fell short of the required minimum of 226 votes.
Communists Nikolai Kolomeitsev, Vladimir Bessonov and Anatoly Lokot, members of A Just Russia faction Gennady Gudkov and Valery Gartung, and Liberal-Democrat Sergei Ivanov earlier demanded that the bill not be debated on Tuesday to get more time for editing. The parliamentary majority of the United Russia party rejected this proposal.
