The State Duma announced a proposal to oblige deputies to notify about traveling abroad

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin proposed to oblige deputies to notify about traveling abroad, informed lower house deputy Mikhail Matveev in his Telegram channel. The changes will not affect business trips.

“Vyacheslav Volodin proposed amending the regulations obliging to notify State Duma deputies about leaving Russia (except for business trips),” he wrote.

Matveev explained that the deputies would have to notify the Duma control committee, and the heads of the committees and vice-speakers – the chairman of the State Duma.

Last week the Kommersant newspaper informedthat the regional authorities in Russia “strongly recommended” local deputies and officials to refrain from vacationing abroad after several high-profile cases.

In particular, on January 11, the governor of the Ulyanovsk region, Alexei Russkikh (KPRF), signed an order “On the specifics of leaving the Russian Federation for the period of the NWO.” According to this document, all persons related to regional and municipal authorities are “recommended” to refrain from traveling abroad during their holidays until further notice. Aleksey Preobrazhensky, head of the state-legal administration of the governor’s administration, said that although this cannot be called an official ban, “everyone understands what this recommendation means.”

Similar recommendations were later formulated in the Tambov and Sverdlovsk regions. According to Kommersant, a tacit ban exists in Mari El, North Ossetia and Chuvashia. At the same time, this recommendation has been in effect in the Bryansk region since the beginning of the special operation in February 2022. Then, according to an interlocutor close to the government of the region, the governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz “gathered all the officials and deputies and talked about it there.”