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Putin puts new law in place about violations at Russian mass meetings - good or bad?
The adversaries of the new law claim said that the necessity to impose tough regulations on such public events, meetings and demonstrations was against the Russian Constitution.
The supporters of the new law stated that Russia would finally be able to bring the laws about mass meetings and the responsibility of their participants and organizers in accordance with the norms of developed democratic states.
Sergei Mironov, the leader of Just Russia, the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseyeva and the chairman of the presidential Council for Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov, sent a letter to Putin with a request to delay the signing of the law.
As for Vladimir Putin, his press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that President Putin would hold objections against the law "only if the law contradicts to commonly recognized and international practices that give people an opportunity to realize their rights." Putin did not have any objections against the law, though.
Putin added that the law could be amended further on even though it had been signed. "Nothing is frozen here. If we find out that deputies missed something out of their attention, then we can ask them to change it, if there is a need in that, of course," Putin said.
The Federal Law "On Amendments to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Violations," and the Federal Law "On Assemblies, Rallies, Demonstrations, Processions and Pickets" was adopted in order to strengthen the administrative responsibility for violations of the law on meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets, and to clarify the reasons and the aggravating circumstances in the prosecution of violations in this area.
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