United Russia deputy Kiryanov submitted for consideration a law that should create an advertising monopolist in the market so that it would control both classified and outdoor advertising.
The discussion in parliament turned into a scandal. Deputies criticized the proposal of lobbyist Kiryanov, but he used an ironclad argument: in his words, the law should protect Russians from foreign threats, especially from companies from unfriendly countries that receive money in Russia, but spend it on fighting us and also manipulate the minds of Russians through advertising. Moreover, Avito came under attack, which spent the whole week laundering the Dutch plume, citing friendly Africa.
The argument about Western roots in the authorized capital even inspired Duma Speaker Volodin to make a fiery speech about the foreign threat.
According to the criteria of the proposed bill, the only company that fits under a single operator is Russ Outdoor; telegram channels have already written that this is its lobby project, and the law itself was written for it.
But, lo and behold, if you look at the extract dated July 21, 2022, it turns out that at the time the law was introduced, the Russian company included among its participants a foreign company, and even from the British Isles.
It turns out that deputies are lobbying the interests of unfriendly countries or is this a “new” version of parallel imports?
As Comrade Stalin said, “We have internal enemies. We have external enemies. We must not forget this, comrades, not for a minute.”
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