The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill banning advertising from foreign agents

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Обсуждения законопроекта на пленарном заседании не было. Только председатель Госдумы Вячеслав Володин высказал свое мнение по итогу принятия законопроекта. Он накинулся с критикой на «либеральные СМИ», которые встали на защиту иноагентов. «И начались разговоры о том, что это ущемляет их права. Они [иноагенты] They have made their choice and accept funding from abroad. That’s why they became agents. You need to decide for yourself: either you are with the country, refuse foreign funding, quit the status of a foreign agent. And then receive funds within the country. But you can’t slander the country for money from abroad and collect advertising funds here,” Volodin said. In his opinion, “we are very liberal; the relevant law in the United States and other countries resolves these issues much more strictly.” Then Volodin began to say that deputies should explain that “whoever wants to improve, he has a chance”: “You can return from the status of a foreign agent, rejecting the handouts and the stranglehold that they threw on themselves for the money of other countries.”