Protecting conservative values is the task of a new working group set up in the Russian Duma, and the debut it made has been quite impressive.

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The full name of the group is – an Inter-faction working group to improve legislation on the protection of Christian values.

The group was created with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, with an idea to create a working format that would embrace all factions presented in the Russian Parliament – the State Duma. Plans to set up this kind of team were announced in February 2022.  At the moment, the group includes more than 50 of all the 450 Duma deputies from every Parliament faction.

Says the head of the group, the State Duma vice-speaker Pyotr Tolstoy:

"We consider it necessary to evaluate the legislative decisions made by the State Duma, judging them not only by their efficiency and feasibility, but also by their position regarding our traditional and family values, how they contribute to the ultimate goal of preserving our nation, as set by our President".  

The reaction from fellow lawmakers was rather mixed. Many voiced their concerns that the new group shall push for the revival of censorship practice.

This is not quite so, says a popular actor and film director Nickolay Burlyayev, who is also a member of the group.

“Everybody is upset over a word “censorship”. I would never support political censorship. Twenty of my films did not make it to cinema theaters because of political censorship. But – ethical censorship is something we certainly need”.  

The full text of his interview will be published on our website.

The team started its work in October 2022, as the 8th State Duma, formed after the 2020  Parliamentary election, went into its five-year term

The group has already made a loud debut by introducing a draft of the legislation to ban public endorsement of LGBT agenda.  

The sensational bill, supported unanimously in the first reading, created some stir and ran into resistance from a broader LGBT community, but is still likely to make it through the second and the third readings, before being signed into law by the RF President.

Now, we all realize that a good start does not imply that it shall all come smoothly. As the work goes on, problems are likely to surface.  

Says Nikolay Nikolayev, the Duma deputy and a member of the group.

“We are only making our first steps, and we still need to resolve some problems that are likely to surface at one moment or another.

I can give you an example: we all know that politics is the art of compromise. We, as lawmakers, are engaged in politics and are therefore supposed to seek compromise on different issues we are discussing, to work out a decision that would be acceptable for the majority of the Duma. Now, the task of this group is to protect values. Protecting values is something that hardly allows for any compromise.

So, how do we need to “marry” the two approaches? We shall have to give it some thought and come up with a solution”…

No one promised it would be easy. But the mere fact, that this group has been formed and the first bill it initiated, has been unanimously hailed, is a sure sign, that liberal values are losing their attraction, whatever they had, and the time of sound conservatism has come.

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