Thursday, September 18, 2014

The State Duma on September 23 to consider a law limiting the percentage of foreigners in the media – RBC

The State Duma on September 23 to consider a law limiting the percentage of foreigners in the media – RBC

RBC 09.18.2014, Moscow 13:06:51 September 23, the State Duma intends to consider the first reading of a bill to limit foreign participation in the capital of the Russian media. Told RBC reported in the apparatus of the Duma.

September 19, they will discuss the law of increasing state funding of parties.

Previously, a group of MPs from the Liberal Democratic Party, “Fair Russia” and the Communist Party has proposed to limit the share of foreign shareholders in the Russian media – up to 20%, reported by “Izvestia” .Proposed external law prohibits the media to establish a foreign natural and legal persons, as well as Russian citizens with dual citizenship. Now the restriction on foreign participation in the media is set at 50%, and it does not apply to print media. Duma bill proposes to impose restrictions on all editions.

According to the authors of the document, the law should come into force by 2016, and put everything in order the owners of the media are required by February 2017. Figure of 20% of the authors of the initiative due to the fact that in 25% of the foreigner can own a blocking stake and influence media policy.

September 17 Gosudmu introduced a bill that proposes to increase the annual payments parties who have received following the elections to the State Duma of at least 3% of the vote, with 50 to 110 rubles per vote. The total budget allocation necessary for the implementation of the project, will be in 2015, nearly 7 billion rubles, according to the financial and economic feasibility of the document. Review the government has not yet entered, but, according to one of the authors of the initiative of Mikhail Margelov (“United Russia”), it is expected in the coming days.

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