Former President of Tatarstan saw the law Spring “pre-election frenzy” – RBC

Former President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev

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« Anti-Terrorism package “Irina Summer has been passed by the Parliament” in the heat of the election campaign “, said the former President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev. He offered to instruct the senators of the republic to oppose the amendments

Former President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev, who now holds the position of state adviser in the country, at a meeting of the State Council of Tatarstan proposed to entrust the senators from the region to speak out against the adoption of the “anti-terrorism package” Irina Spring, reports local edition of “Real time».

According to Mintimer Shaimiev, the State Duma passed a package of laws “in the heat of the election campaign,” the newspaper writes. “The new structure will consider – this is according to the law”, – he said and recommended to instruct the senators from Tatarstan to make a proposal to refrain from approving the initiative. Speaker of the State Council Farid Mukhametshin, then said that the order the senators to be formed on the basis of transcripts of speeches Shaimiev.

The Federation Council will consider the bill on Wednesday, 29 June. the Defense and Security Committee of the upper house recommended approval of a package of bills developed by the deputy Irina Spring and Senator Viktor Ozerov, who on June 24 was passed by the Parliament.

The amendments tighten responsibility for crimes of extremist and terrorist nature. Before the second reading of the deputies agreed to withdraw from the rules package of the ban on travel abroad and deprivation of citizenship, which caused a great public outcry. In addition, the amendment will affect the activities of the mobile operators. On the eve of against it expressed in the letter of the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, the head of the “big four” mobile operators – MTS, “Megaphone” “Vympelcom” and Tele2. They stressed that they consider the requirements of the bill impractical from both a technical and an economic point of view.

Among other things, “anti-terrorism package” provides ban on missionary activity in a residential area, which drew criticism from Shaimiev hand, writes “RBC Tatarstan» « due to the uncertainties currently receives a lot of requests from the faithful – representatives of traditional religions.”, – quotes its publication