Internet to give lawmaking powers to every Russian - Putin

Published time: April 19, 2012 10:01
Edited time: April 19, 2012 14:01
Vladimir Putin (RIA Novosti / Aleksey Nikolskyi)

Vladimir Putin has said that any Russian will be able to submit his or her own bills for parliamentary consideration after collecting 100,000 signatures in its support.

Speaking at a broad conference on discussion of Putin’s pre-election article “Democracy and Quality of the State”, the president-elect said that Russia needed the most modern model of state management, based on modern modes of technology, including crowdsourcing.

To do this, the community must become a co-author of all changes that the authorities are planning and undertaking in the country, Putin noted.

The president-elect reminded the conference that the first steps to this system had already been taken, in particular a special web portal was launched on March 1 allowing Russian citizens to discuss the most important lawmaking initiatives.

He went on to outline how Russians can submit their own bills for parliamentary consideration after collecting 100,000 signatures in support of them. However, Putin added that all ideas should be thoroughly prepared and checked, preferably in a place that is universally considered as significant and important.

“This place must not be politicized and must not be used as a promotion site for various political forces. It must be a purely professional place,” Putin stressed.

In the end of the conference the president-elect instructed the Ministry of Economic Development and the Justice Ministry to develop the basis for public expertise of draft laws as quickly as possible.

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Rin (unregistered) 19.04.2012 15:18

@LenaIt is so-so touching that outsiders are concerned&n bsp;about democracy in Russia, whereas their own countries have long sunken into the depths of corruption, IMF penetration and western-whorism.Repr esentatives of the anti-Russian co smopolitanism t oday choose to bring Russia's internal problems to light as they do with every other state that may represent a threat to western interests. This act is a gesture of a desperate attempt to prevent the initially failed and disintegrating system of western politics, economy, imperialism and even religion, which is mainly based on double-standards,&nb sp;hypocrisy, modern feudalism, and requires an outside enemy to prevent own self-destruction.
As for the article, I hope Putin knows what he's doing. Taking into account the briskly spreading liber alism, which brings rarely anything positive aside from destruction in one form or another, and the constantly growing anti-theism (especially in the west) which does in some sense form a political mass with little sense of morals and intellect but big ambitions, letting the public, in its current state of being, submit laws is a dangerous gamble. But then again, nothing is accidental in politics. Russia was always the brain of the planet, maybe in a few decades from now it'll bring the infantile world back to its senses.

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Lena (unregistered) 19.04.2012 14:21

The cashier at the currency exchange at Heathrow Airport picked up my rubles, looked at them with barely disguised disgust and said: “So how was it in Russia?” “It’s OK,” I told him, not really being in the mood for an in-depth discussion of life in Moscow and beyond. “I’m Polish,” he said. “We hate Russians.” He smiled, as if I was supposed to give him a badge. “OK,” I said. I’d found myself short of cash with no bankcard and simply wanted him to change the rubles I’d had in my pocket into usable funds. I really didn’t need to know about his prejudices. “So is it dangerous in Russia?” he continued. “Not really, only for…” I went on, wanting to say, “Poles,” but stopping myself. After all, the massacre of Polish officers by the Soviet secret police and the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a 2010 air crash in Russia aren’t really joking matters. “Dangerous only for whom?” the persistent Pole asked. “Foreigners?” he suggested, almost salivating at the prospect of having all his conceptions confirmed. I thought about that for a few seconds. Is Russia dangerous for foreigners? Well, I guess if your skin is the wrong color and you find yourself in the wrong place – then, yes, it most certainly is. No arguing with that. Or if you are a businessman who falls afoul of the authorities, in some cases. But a brief perusal of the news here – plane crashes, police brutality, heartless child murders and much more – should be enough to convince anyone that, in fact, Russia is dangerous in the first place and in the first order for Russians. Foreigners are just a bonus. So that was what I told him. He didn’t look too happy with my answer, but he’d already counted out my cash, and I was off on my merry way to buy a pasty or two.

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Michael (unregistered) 19.04.2012 10:46

I want to trust Mr. Putin but it's very hard to trust any Christian.  Putin has been soft on NATO for a long time, he is a capitalist, and he hangs around with vile Freemasons like Henry Kissinger.  I'm afraid that Putin is most likely a Freemason, same as Gorbachev.

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