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The Ministry of foreign Affairs has written to embassies of USA, UK and Canada protest notes after the buildings hung flags of LGBT people, said the head of the state Duma Commission to investigate cases of interference in the Affairs outside of Russia Vasily Piskarev.
As explained by the Deputy, the notes stressed that the actions of diplomatic missions violated "the provisions of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations and national legislation of the Russian Federation".
The Commission of the state Duma on investigation of facts of interference in the Affairs of the Russian Federation outside still have questions to the foreign media and their publications, monitoring information in foreign publications about Russia will be continued, told reporters the head of the Committee Vasily Piskarev, summing up the work in the spring.
"For a number of media – such as "Medusa", "MBKH-media", "BBC Russian service" - the Commission questions remain, monitoring of information published in foreign publications, will continue. In addition, the Commission insists on the strict observance of the media-registered as a foreign agent of the requirement for mandatory labelling of their products," - said the Deputy.
The state Duma at plenary session on Tuesday adopted the law on the duties of asguardian to introduce myself.
The authors of the initiative made by the head of the Duma Committee on security and combating corruption Vasily Piskarev, the head of Committee GD on the information policy Alexander Khinshtein (both from "United Russia") and the Deputy from "Fair Russia" Valery Hartung.
In connection with the publications in the Newspapers New York Times and the Financial Times about the alleged discrepancy between the official data on deaths from the coronavirus in Russia, the real statistics could be deprived of accreditation in the Russian Federation individual journalists, the head of the state Duma Commission on investigation of facts of interference in the internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Committee for security and combating corruption Vasily Piskarev.
The state Duma Commission had earlier asked the foreign Ministry to take measures to the New York Times and Financial Times after biased articles about COVID-19 until the withdrawal of the accreditation in the Russian Federation. In the state Duma also noticed that these articles appeared simultaneously. The head of the Committee Vasily Piskarev has called unacceptable for the levels of those publications the appearance of these articles, based on speculation and does not represent the official Russian point of view. Later the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the editors of the Financial Times and the New York Times prepared letters of refutation published of misinformation about the coronavirus in Russia.
The state Duma Commission on investigation of facts of interference in the Affairs of Russia is ready to discussion with the chief editor of radio station "Echo of Moscow" Alexei Venediktov, who responded to the Commission's activities in relation to Financial Times and The New York Times the advice "take a pill".
The head of the Committee Vasily Piskarev said earlier that the Commission has asked the foreign Ministry to take steps to the American Newspapers The New York Times and The Financial Times after biased article about the situation with coronavirus in Russia until the withdrawal of the accreditation. The Russian foreign Ministry also said that the letters to the editors of the Financial Times and the New York Times with a demand to refute the published disinformation.
The state Duma at plenary session on Thursday adopted in the first reading the bill according to which officers of the Federal security service are obliged to respect the confidentiality of professional secret information about the activities of the FSB.
The authors of the initiative were the deputies of Vasily Piskarev Dmitry Vyatkin. Changes are proposed to article 7 of the Federal law "About Federal security service".
Deputies of the state Duma Vasily Piskarev Dmitry Vyatkin has made to the state Duma a bill according to which officials of the Federal security service are obliged to respect the confidentiality of information about the activities of the FSB, a professional secret.
The document was published in electronic database of the lower house of Parliament.
The public chamber of the Russian Federation gave the state Duma Commission on investigation of facts of interference in the Affairs of the Russian Federation from the outside, a total of 113 fact sheets fake publications about voting on the amendments to the Constitution, told journalists the first Deputy Chairman of the Commission of Public chamber of the Russian Federation on development of information community, media and mass communications Alexander Malkevich.
"Indeed, I lead the Foundation for the protection of national values together with the Public chamber of Russia has handed over to Vasily Ivanovich (Piskarev, the head of the Duma Commission - ed.) a total of 113 fact sheets publications inaccurate, designed to shape public opinion, fake on the resources of the media-foreign agents for three weeks. So you imagine the volume: in three weeks there were over 200 such publications, these materials are transferred to see what loopholes in the law are our, you are so correct to say, ideological opponents," he told reporters Malkevich.
Member of the Public chamber of the Russian Federation Alexander Malkevich passed to the Duma Commission on investigation of facts of interference in the Affairs of the Russian Federation the facts of fake publications designed to affect the vote on the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, they will pay attention to one of the meetings of the Commission, told reporters the head of the Committee Vasily Piskarev.
"We held a meeting with the head of the Commission of the Public chamber, during which, in particular, Malevich, Alexander Alexandrovich was transferred to us on an extensive folder of documents on the reverse faults in the media in the electronic media of fake news regarding the vote on amendments to the Constitution", - the Deputy told reporters.
Commission of the state Duma on investigation of facts of interference in the internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has developed five draft laws on improvement of the legislation in terms of media, aimed at discouraging youth involvement in drug use and blocking sites, justifying the extremism, some of them will be introduced in the state Duma next week, told reporters the head of the Commission and the Chairman of the Duma Committee on security and combating corruption Vasily Piskarev.
Earlier Piskarev reported that the Commission has developed a bill criminalizing incitement to drug use, using Internet resources, as well as the introduction of criminal liability of imprisonment up to 15 years for involvement in criminal activity of minors, including drug trafficking. Also, the Commission proposes to introduce responsibility for participation in activities of non-governmental organizations, banned in Russia and abroad.