Bills to organize online wine trade in the Russian Federation were removed from the agenda of the State Duma session on Wednesday, a parliamentary source told Interfax. "At the beginning of the plenary session, during the discussion of the agenda, the chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin expressed the opinion that when considering high-profile initiatives such as government bills on online wine trade, the relevant ministers - Oksana Lut and Maksot Shadev - should be present. He instructed the permanent representative of the government in the State Duma, Alexander Sinenko, to work on the issue of these parties, Alexander Sinenko. in the Duma when relevant initiatives are considered," said an interlocutor of the agency who was present at the meeting. In April 2023, the Russian government approved and submitted to the State Duma a bill to conduct an experiment in the online retail sale of local wine from November 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 in Moscow and the Moscow region.