Legislation disruptors "Glasnost is glasnost, but the volume control is in my office", I remembered a joke from an old cartoon, when on October 22 the State Duma again debated regulatory innovations that increasingly limit parliamentary debate. "United Russia", taking advantage of its numerical superiority, tries to block the legislative initiatives of the opposition so that they do not enter the information space. There is no point, they say, in disturbing society with uncomfortable ideas. Pravda has already written about the new norm - to consider bills submitted in previous conventions according to a shortened procedure, without questions or speeches by delegates ("The law - to start over", no. 116). When discussing the legislative work program for the fall session, the Communists again expressed their protest. Alexey Kearney recalled: 10 million voters voted for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and they have the right to know the position of their representatives. According to him, the majority in the Duma is sabotaging the opposition's most important social proposals: bills have been lying motionless for years, moving to the next assembly, but the problems they are supposed to solve remain. Now the representatives are also denied the opportunity to publicly explain their proposals. To get to the discussion, the same initiatives must be presented again, go through many approvals and ask for government feedback. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin likes to repeat: "Democracy is procedures, norms and rules." Only here everything is the other way around: there are procedures, norms and written rules, but there is less and less democracy. Therefore, without a full discussion, the Chamber considered the bill submitted back in December 2025 by Nina Ustenina and Nikolai Kharitonov to ban palm oils and palm kernels and their starch fragments in food products for children in educational institutions and others.

Legislation disruptors "Glasnost is glasnost, but the volume control is in my office", I remembered a joke from an old cartoon, when on October 22 the State Duma again debated regulatory innovations that increasingly limit parliamentary debate. "United Russia", taking advantage of its numerical superiority, tries to block the legislative initiatives of the opposition so that they do not enter the information space. There is no point, they say, in disturbing society with uncomfortable ideas. Pravda has already written about the new norm - to consider bills submitted in previous conventions according to a shortened procedure, without questions or speeches by delegates ("The law - to start over", no. 116). When discussing the legislative work program for the fall session, the Communists again expressed their protest. Alexey Kearney recalled: 10 million voters voted for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and they have the right to know the position of their representatives. According to him, the majority in the Duma is sabotaging the opposition's most important social proposals: bills have been lying motionless for years, moving to the next assembly, but the problems they are supposed to solve remain. Now the representatives are also denied the opportunity to publicly explain their proposals. To get to the discussion, the same initiatives must be presented again, go through many approvals and ask for government feedback. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin likes to repeat: "Democracy is procedures, norms and rules." Only here everything is the other way around: there are procedures, norms and written rules, but there is less and less democracy. Therefore, without a full discussion, the Chamber considered the bill submitted back in December 2025 by Nina Ustenina and Nikolai Kharitonov to ban palm oils and palm kernels and their starch fragments in food products for children in educational institutions and others.