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The State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children held an all-Russian meeting “Social Blogger” on Thursday. The purpose of the event is to initiate an alliance between the state and the blogosphere to address pressing social issues. The head of the committee, Nina Ostanina (KPRF), proposed creating a code of ethics for the Russian blogger and thinking about “legal registration of the community” with the issuance of certificates. Representatives of the blogosphere, most of whom turned out to be mothers of many children, did not argue with this idea, focusing mainly on stories about their path to success.

According to the organizers, more than 100 top bloggers from all over the country came to the meeting. Opening the event, Nina Ostanina said that such a format for the Duma is a novelty, although there is a council of bloggers under the committee of the Federation Council on Science and Education. “We have never seen such a nice audience in the Duma,” Ms. Ostanina admitted emotionally. She noted that the bloggers sitting in the hall represent an audience of 40 million: “One of the central channels Rossiya 24 collects so much, and it’s impossible to brush it off just like that.”

The head of the committee made a tempting offer to all those present: the deputies would provide them with reliable information about the laws, so that they would communicate it in an accessible form to their subscribers, and in return bloggers could broadcast to the deputies the problems that citizens address to them as a “primary link”. “We are all faced with mobilization issues. They did not bother to explain to us who is subject to partial mobilization, and who is not subject and can calmly raise their children, and the wife will not cry, ”Nina Ostanina gave an example of an urgent problem. And at the same time she boasted that she managed to get the General Staff to introduce an amendment at its disposal, which exempted the fathers of three children under 16 from partial mobilization (initially it was supposed not to call on the fathers of four or more children).

The deputy also noted that propaganda issues are acute on the Internet, recalling the “blue whales” movement that encourages children to commit suicide, the ideology of “childfree” and “schoolshooting” (the Columbine movement, also known as Schoolshooting, is recognized as a terrorist and forbidden – “b”). “But, fortunately, there are you, social bloggers who promote real traditional family values,” she addressed the audience. create a family, give birth and raise children. And we must help. Adopt a law on housing for a young family, on the first job.

At the end of her speech, Ms. Ostanina suggested thinking about creating a code of ethics for a Russian blogger and legalizing the blogging community with registration with the Ministry of Justice and issuing certificates.

State Duma Deputy and Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Dmitry Novikov agreed that the audience gathered “nice”. “The blogosphere today is so diverse that its individual segments can help people, while other segments are clearly destructive to society, and participate in the process of dehumanization. The more valuable is what you do,” said the communist. He also said that a special department of Internet communications has been created in the structure of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, one of the key tasks of which is cooperation with progressive bloggers. “On the basis of the Center for Political Studies under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, a special educational course “Working in social networks” has been developed,” the deputy added.

Deputy Maxim Gulin (New People) noted that there were familiar faces in the hall – some were nominated from his party to the State Duma. He recalled that Meta, which owns Instagram, was included in the list of extremist organizations (and it was banned in the Russian Federation – “b”), in connection with which bloggers began to receive warnings from the prosecutor’s office. “We are talking about the interaction of the state and the blogosphere, but if we talk about the power authorities, it is clear that, on the contrary, it is fighting bloggers,” the deputy complained.

Then the floor was given to the bloggers themselves. Model and mother of two daughters Anastasia Tarasova said that at first the audience of her blog was benevolent, but after she married a “famous person”, she was “hit” (her husband, football player Dmitry Tarasov, was previously married to TV presenter Olga Buzova). Anastasia also admitted that due to postpartum depression, there was a “wall of misunderstanding” between her and her husband, so now she wants to help other women in a similar situation and create a support center for them: “Then we would have a healthy nation.” Nina Ostanina replied that a draft law on psychological assistance to the population had already been developed at the site of her committee.

Eduard Filippov, who shoots social videos, often devoted to housing and communal services, shared the secrets of mastery, telling how in one of the videos he turned into a mermaid, and in another he traveled around Tyumen in a bath. Murat Rahimov named other popular topics for social videos: alcoholism, parenting, domestic violence, drug addiction, ecology, healthy lifestyle, gadget addiction, school bullying. And another mom-blogger, Anna Kvedar, called “combining an expert approach with a lifestyle series” her secret to success. According to her, the impetus for the development of her blog was offline meetings with young mothers, which she held “completely free of charge.”

Some participants of the meeting also had new, not yet implemented ideas. Thus, the mother of many children, Yulia Solovieva, “after analyzing the requests”, realized that the main thing now is “to accept and survive partial mobilization as a necessary measure.” Zalina Akmanbetova, who came to Moscow from Dagestan, could not rent an apartment for a long time and still cannot get her son into a kindergarten, so she would like to create a center to help women with relocation. Finally, Anastasia Anitchenko from Irkutsk said that “it would be great to organize an art space where mothers could sew and embroider.”

At the end of the event, its organizers gave bloggers the opportunity to “work in their specialty”, allowing them to take pictures in various Duma locations.

Ksenia Veretennikova