We pick out bookmarks from their hardware - State Duma deputies staged an Internet squabble
The bill on an autonomous RuNet, adopted today in its first reading, has split opposition factions in the Russian State Duma.
The LDPR and A Just Russia honestly admitted this. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation did not wash dirty laundry in public, but, judging by the voting results, 47 deputies opposed it - the communists, of whom there are 45 in parliament, did not vote unanimously.
A native of the USSR KGB, Andrei Lugovoi, came into conflict with the LDPR faction. He refused to withdraw his signature on the bill, as demanded by faction leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Now he faces disciplinary action.
As A Just Russia deputies admitted, their faction was split in half on the issue of Runet. At today's meeting they started an internal party discussion. The bill was presented and defended by the Socialist-Revolutionary Leonid Levin.
His fellow party member Oleg Nilov criticized not only the bill but also his comrade, former counterintelligence officer Nikolai Ryzhak, who supported it, for which he received a reprimand from the presidium.
Another Socialist-Revolutionary, Elena Drapeko, tried to argue with LDPR deputy Sergei Ivanov, who pointed out that the autonomy of the Runet would be ensured by imported equipment, where only wires were made in Russia.
“Yes, we buy iron with bookmarks, and our special services pick them out,” Drapeko said.
Another member of A Just Russia, Oleg Shein, predicted that with the independent Internet everything will work out, as with the blocking of Telegram by Roskomnadzor, and as a result the entire Runet will be “covered with a copper basin.”
The communists seemed to act as a united front and spoke about the danger of total state censorship and enormous budget expenditures. Cost forecasts during the discussion increased from 20 to 150 billion rubles.
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