A group of deputies of the State Duma introduced a bill to the lower house, the proposed legislative reduce to 20% the proportion of foreign founders and shareholders in the Russian mass media, as well as to introduce a number of prohibitions in this area. Parliamentary initiative was supported by the manual and the Russian Union of Journalists criticized the well-known figures of the domestic media sphere.
This offer is reasonable, since it does not allow other countries to control the media space of Russia, said the chairman of SJ Vsevolod Bogdanov “Russian news service” . “The State Duma is concerned about the experience of some countries with a high level of public and respected in terms of media, where the media were seized by foreign firms. When my fellow journalists, such as Eastern European countries become dependent on the host, who imposes his views, positions, – journalism disappears . Remain PR and propaganda, “- said Bogdanov its position.
At the same time the chief editor of “Komsomolskaya Pravda” Vladimir Sungorkin parliamentary initiative called “Utopia”, which may discourage foreign investors’ willingness to invest in the domestic media market. “At a minimum, it will affect all sorts of different moods of potential investors – he said in comments RIA” News “. – I do against this measure, because we have to some depressing regularity is destroyed residues of the media market. ”
Nothing “deadly and terrible will happen if foreign capital will be present in the Russian media is not 20%, and more,” Sure chief editor manual, and “20% – it is a utopia” because “no foreigners in 20% of the benefit is no,” said the agency. At the same time, he pointed out that if you want foreigners can create a Russian legal entity and then these restrictions do not prevent them.
Member of the Presidential Council on Human Rights Human Rights Council (HRC), a well-known journalist Nikolai Svanidze also questioned the wisdom of the parliamentary initiative. “In favor of it did not go, because the quality of it will not contribute,” – he said in comments RIA “Novosti”.
The package of amendments to the law “On mass media” made in the State Duma deputies Vadim Dengin (LDPR faction), Vladimir Parahin (“Fair Russia”) and Denis Voronenkov (CPRF). Restriction on foreign ownership of founders and shareholders of media assets in Russia up to 20% is proposed to introduce from 1 January 2016. In addition, it is proposed to prohibit act as founders of the Russian media to foreign individuals and legal entities, as well as the Russians, having dual citizenship and stateless persons, write “Izvestia” .
In the current edition of the “Law on Mass Media” restriction on foreign participation in television and radio is set at 50%. In this case, this limitation does not apply to print media. Now MPs want to reduce this threshold to 20%, while at the same time to introduce a ban on all media assets, including print and online editions. The ban will not affect media projects that do not have a license media, according to the publication.
As conceived by the initiators of innovation, media owners should be given time to February 1, 2017 to bring the entire corporate chain in accordance with the law, and the new instruments of the owners and founders should be transferred to Roscomnadzor not later than 15 February 2017.
In this case, one of the authors of the bill, the first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Information Policy Dengin Vadim says that the initiative is not an attempt some sort of political pressure on the media or business, and focus exclusively on national security. “Who owns the information – owns the world” – he recalled the newspaper famous saying attributed to Mayer Amschel Bauer – founder of the Rothschild dynasty.
“It is normal practice for the world when the state restricts the participation of foreign capital in the media – in any of the news agencies, magazines, newspapers, Internet resources – 25% – said in comments Dengin ” Kommersant FM “ . – Somewhere fork from 20% to 30%. And you know perfectly well what is now the war turned against the Russian information, I would even call it cold war information. And in the age of information warfare, unfortunately, we have to defend and enforce such decisions . ”
It will be recalled that on September 1 in the State Duma was introduced Bill , more than a year and a half the accelerating shift in Russian servers with personal data of Russians with a view to the safety and secrecy of correspondence in the information and telecommunications networks “, sponsored by also made Dengin and Parahin. According to unofficial data, such acceleration decided to give in response to sanctions against Russia on the part of the EU and the United States.
Recall the idea that the servers are large national companies should be transferred to the territory of Russia in order to protect the information, stated by the president Vladimir Putin in April, together with the comments of the scandalous law on bloggers , equate popular Internet users to the media. At the same time, Putin spoke about the protection of information in RuNet and that Internet resources need to migrate servers in Russia while many popular servers in the RF network editions are in the United States.
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