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The speakers of the State Duma summed up the Spring Session and announced their plans for the Autumn Session.
The Chairman of the Lower House of Parliament, Sergei Naryshkin spoke about the future political discussions, the hottest legal topics and what legislative innovations are possible.
Sergey Naryshkin, Chairman of the Lower House of the Parliament
The Spring Session, the third session in the current convocation of the State Duma, is over.
The session was difficult, important, and I would say, to a certain extent, a turning point in the work of the parliament.
A turning point in terms of the test of strength and because of our decisions. In the autumn we will continue to work on the bill, which introduces a mixed system of elections to the State Duma, and on a number of other very important laws.
I'll maybe outline a few of them now. First of all, there is the amendment to the Constitution, which should provide the union of the Supreme Court and the High Court of Arbitration in accordance with the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation.
Let me mention also the draft of the federal constitutional law "On the Federal Assembly", work on which has already begun.
To a new level comes the implementation of the control powers of the Parliament, particularly in the area of budgetary relations.
You remember, this year the Duma passed a new law on the Audit Chamber, which is the supervisory body of the Duma.
The law on parliamentary control really made significant changes to the powers of the parliament, especially in regard to budgetary relations.
The future of of the Academy of Sciences caused many questions. Sergei Naryshkin said that the deputies did not try to promote themselves by passing the law, and promised that work on the document would be very careful.
We are very attentive to the bill, which was quite unexpected for the State Duma deputies when we received it from the government of the Russian Federation.
From the first day we began active work and discussion in the parliament around this bill, involving, of course, representatives of the academic and scientific community.
First, the faction "United Russia", and then the Council of the State Duma said that we will take the final decision on the bill in the autumn session. And we passed the two readings, the first and the second of the bill.
This is not PR, no, it's the opposite, in my opinion, it is normal parliamentary practice, it is careful work on the bill, especially on such a bill, which immediately caused sharp disputes and heated debates in the professional community and in society as a whole. And we, of course, must respond to it.
The first speaker of the State Duma, Ivan Melnikov, and the Vice-Speaker Lyudmila Shvetsova responded to questions about the USE.
Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Lyudmila Shvetsova
As for the exam, I want to say that we recently held an open platform.
Together with the experts, we considered all the pros and cons of this prolonged experiment, which has passed into the next stage already.
And if I were to summarize the results of this open platform, we have agreed that we will continue to work further with the fact that:
a) all the flaws that exist in the exam and in the organization of the exam should be fixed,
and b) the exam is not an absolute means of assessment of the student work and the work of the teachers and regions who organize the educational process, etc.
Because we have, unfortunately, already set the USE as a totally incomprehensible criterion of all the achievements and shortcomings of our education system.
Ivan Melnikov, first deputy speaker of the State Duma
The situation with the exam, I think it is very serious. We try to present the situation in a way on which there are some individual violations.
In fact, Rosobrnadzor conducted research in 18 regions of Russia.
These studies have shown that if you take works with a high score (of 80 points or more), then 77% of the scores are inflated.
That is, the situation is close to a disaster.
And at the open platform, which took place, I think its conclusion was: it is clear that, of course, in the future, the USE will continue, but not in the way it happened in last two years.
Talking about the law of Dima Yakovlev, Sergey Naryshkin noted that Russia has no reason to revise it.
The questions that society sends and confronts the parliament with, they are the center of attention, they are discussed, they are debated. Another question is how it is translated into a legislative initiative...
So far the legislation does not allow this.
There are themes for the protection of children, families and the protection of orphans and children left without parental care.
The law in question has been passed. Its rules apply. Is it necessary to revise it or not?
I think that now we have no reason to revise it.
In addition, and this is an essential characteristic of the parliamentary work in this Spring Session, a large amount of important, relevant, very specific laws that aim to support families, support children, orphaned children left without parental care has been passed.
The general policy of the state is that we should to raise our children ourselves.
Also at the press conference the burning question related to the situation in the town of Pugachevo was mentioned.
As for the hottest events in the town of Pugachevo, there, of course, first of all the law enforcement agencies, and where appropriate, local and regional authorities should act.
I do not see a subject for legislative implementation here.