State Duma
This week, in the first reading, it adopted a high-profile bill on the presentation of vaccination certificates in public places. However, the key news was that in anticipation of the consideration of this bill, another draft law related to the government’s “anti-Covid policy” On the contrary, it was withdrawn from consideration. On the recommendation of the relevant committee, there was The bill on the mandatory presentation of vaccination certificates in transport was withdrawn from consideration. With a high degree of probability, interested parties will still try to revive the document (a number of sources insist on this), but it is already obvious that the conflict between political administrators and individual political actors is associated with that very “anti-Covid policy” worsens. As has already been noted several times, the “anti-Covid policy” became a stress test and a stumbling block for the Russian authorities, comparable, perhaps, to the pension reform.Three weeks after the mine tragedy “Listvyazhnaya” was detained in the Kemerovo region Mikhail Fedyaev main owner and president of the holding JSC Holding Company “Siberian Business Union”the general director of the company was detained along with him JSC Holding Company “SDS-Ugol” Gennady Alekseev, technical director Anton Yakutovas well as the chief engineer of the mine “Listvyazhnaya” Anatoly Lobanov. This is a rare case when the beneficiary of an enterprise where an emergency occurred is held accountable. Fedyaev was a party member “United Russia” (immediately after his arrest his membership in the party was suspended) and was on the list “200 richest people in Russia” according to the magazine Forbes.
All detainees were sent to Pre-trial detention center, They do not admit their guilt in what happened. The arrests coincided with a visit to the mine “Listvyazhnaya” chapters “Investigative Committee” Alexandra Bastrykina (he is the one who is called the initiator of the criminal prosecution Fedyaeva). According to one version, investigators managed to identify another “shadow” owner of the company JSC Holding Company “SDS-Ugol” Vladimir Gridin (officially it was previously reported that Gridin went out of business, but he allegedly could make a profit through an offshore structure associated with the company). Detain Gridina failed – he has citizenship of the Principality of Monaco, where he is currently located. However, officially criminal prosecution Gridina has not been confirmed, and at this stage of the investigation its mention looks like an attempt by certain forces to remove responsibility for the tragedy from the Fedyaeva.
What happened will have far-reaching consequences and could change the position of the local elite in the region for which the coal mining industry is systemically important, as well as seriously weaken the apparatus positions of the governor of the Kemerovo region Sergei Tsivilevwhich is also a beneficiary of the coal business. In addition, it cannot be ruled out that the tragedy at the mine “Listvyazhnaya” will cost the head chair “Rostekhnadzor” to Alexander Trembitskyin connection with the revelation of a “conflict of interest” in the Siberian Directorate of the department entrusted to him.
In the final third reading, a bill on the general principles of the organization of public power in Russia, authored by member Federation Council Andrey Klishas and deputy State Duma Pavel Krasheninnikovwhich radically changes the position of regional heads in the apparatus and management vertical of power. As noted earlier, now not only governors, but also all economic activities in the regions are coming under the manual control of the federal center, and even for the election of regional legislative bodies, place is now left exclusively for the majoritarian electoral system. However, all in the same “tandem” Klishas-Krasheninnikov New legislative amendments are also being prepared. Yes, they were introduced bill on general principles of local government organization. The document establishes a single five-year term of office for all city mayors and municipal officials; they are also built into the administrative vertical of power (heads of regions will have the right to dismiss heads of municipalities).
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