The Duma approved the bill on payments to the educators of the dead participants in the special operation

The State Duma approved in the first reading billproposing to extend payments for compulsory state insurance to the actual educators of all the dead participants in the special operation.

The bill was introduced in May by a working group on special operation issues. Its head Andrey Turchak then noted that now older brothers or sisters, grandparents and other relatives of only fighters who have died since July 14, 2022 can receive payments.

The authors of the initiative noted in the explanatory note that the actual educators who properly educated and maintained military personnel for at least five years were classified in 2020 as family members of military personnel entitled to receive a one-time allowance and monthly compensation. But they were classified as beneficiaries under compulsory state insurance in the event of the death of military personnel only from July 14, 2022. The bill extends this provision to all cases from February 24, 2022.

As noted in the explanatory note, we are talking about a “small” number of families that will be affected by the measure.

Earlier in April, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that simplifies the procedure for recognizing the military dead and missing during a special operation. Now, if within six months there is no information about the place of stay of a serviceman, in particular, such information is not provided from the commander of the military unit, then he can be recognized as missing at the request of interested persons. Three months after the entry into force of the court decision on the recognition of a serviceman as missing, he may be declared dead.