The Russian Public Initiative system needs improvement. “Russian public initiative”: public or still state

The Russian website has been operating for over a year now. public initiative" What are the results? Is it possible to influence something through public initiatives?

Who initiated the public initiative?

In 2012, on behalf of the President of Russia (“May Decree No. 601”), the Government of the Russian Federation approved the Concept for the formation of a mechanism for the public presentation of citizens’ proposals Russian Federation using the Internet information and telecommunications network for consideration by the Government of the Russian Federation of proposals that have received the support of at least 100 thousand citizens of the Russian Federation within one year.

On the basis of the Concept, Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 183 was issued on March 4, 2013 “On the consideration of public initiatives sent by citizens of the Russian Federation using the Internet resource “Russian Public Initiative”, which came into force immediately after signing. However, Vladimir Putin mentioned the need to introduce the institution of public initiative in his message that same year Federal Assembly. In his speech, public initiative stood on a par with the need for a broad public discussion, “and with practical results, when public initiatives become part of public policy and society controls their implementation.” At the same time, the President ordered the development of. This law was adopted on July 21, 2014 (No. 212-FZ). The President also said that “all bills, key government decisions, strategic plans must undergo a civil, so-called “zero” reading with the participation of NGOs and other institutions civil society" He assigned these functions to public councils under government agencies.

From this excursion into the history of public initiative it is obvious that the development of public initiative is a matter of national importance, which was launched by the President himself.

Who oversees the public initiative?

By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the website “Russian Public Initiative” was created. A certain non-profit organization, the Foundation for Information Democracy, which was created back in 2012, was appointed responsible for the process of placing proposals and voting for them. The founder and President of the Foundation is Ilya Massukh, a former IBM employee and former Deputy Minister of Communications and mass communications Russian Federation. Among the permitted activities of the Fund are the following: market research and identification public opinion, activities in the field of law, publishing activities, Advertising activity, other financial intermediation and consulting on business and management issues.

Thus, formal control of public initiative did not go to the Ministry of Communications, but went into private hands.

What questions can be raised in a public initiative?

According to the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, a public initiative can be submitted by adult citizens of Russia on issues of socio-economic development of the country, improving state and municipal governance through the Internet resource “Russian Public Initiative” (“ROI”). Here we see only two directions: the socio-economic development of the country and the improvement government controlled. Almost any question can be included in such areas if desired. If, for example, a security issue needs to be put to an online vote, then it will be “public administration in the field of security.” If there is an initiative to be introduced on the issue of human rights, then it is “human rights governance”. This suggests that clarifying the directions in which a public initiative can be introduced does not actually specify anything. Therefore, it is more appropriate to limit the scope of initiatives by indicating prohibitions.

The Presidential Decree contains several groups of such prohibitions. The first group is requirements for the text of the initiative. The text should not contain obscene or offensive language, threats to the life or health of citizens, or calls for extremist activities.

The second group of prohibitions are the requirements of legality. The initiative must comply with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, generally recognized principles and norms international law, including in the field of rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens. What does this mean? For example, that the draft of a new constitution for Russia cannot be put to a vote. It is impossible to propose something fundamentally new in the field of public administration if it goes against the foundations of the constitutional system.

The third group of prohibitions is the requirement to comply with the law on a referendum. In other words, issues that cannot be put to a referendum cannot be put to a vote on a public initiative. What are these questions?

Article 6 of the referendum law names the following issues that cannot be submitted to a referendum:

1) on changing the status of the subject (subjects) of the Russian Federation, enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation;

2) on the early termination or extension of the term of office of the President of the Russian Federation, the State Duma, on holding their early elections or on postponing the dates for holding such elections;

3) on the election, appointment, early termination, suspension or extension of the powers of persons holding government positions in the Russian Federation (this applies, for example, to governors of constituent entities of the Russian Federation and ministers);

4) on the personnel of federal bodies state power, other federal government bodies;

5) on the election, early termination, suspension or extension of the term of office of bodies formed in accordance with an international treaty of the Russian Federation;

6) on taking emergency and urgent measures to ensure the health and safety of the population;

7) referred by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal constitutional laws to the exclusive competence of federal government bodies.

It turns out that the people, even through the instrument of public initiative (a very unreliable instrument), will not be able to express their attitude, for example, to the head of the Government, which is not coping with the management of the country.

The fourth group of requirements for an initiative is relevance and validity. The Information Democracy Foundation decides how relevant the public initiative is and how justified the proposed solution to the problem is. The Foundation has no more than two months to make a decision. If he considers the solution to the problem insufficiently substantiated, or violates other requirements discussed above, then the public initiative is not posted on the Internet resource. That is, a certain private structure is the first filter on the path of public initiatives.

How does a public initiative work?

If a public initiative does not violate established prohibitions, it is posted on an Internet resource. It looks like a text justifying the need to solve a certain problem, practical results and specific solutions to the problem. Along with this, the text of the draft legal act and an explanatory note to it may be posted. Voting is held throughout the year; Russian citizens over 18 years of age who present their passport when registering on the government services portal can vote.

For initiatives different levels need to dial different quantities votes “for”: at the federal level – at least one hundred thousand; at the regional level – for regions with a population of over 2 million people – one hundred thousand, for the rest – 5% of the region’s population; at the municipal level – 5% of the municipality’s population. You can also vote against the initiative; formally, they are not subsequently subtracted from the votes cast “for” the initiative. But it can be assumed that a large number of opponents of the initiative can influence the opinion of experts working group.

If the initiative is supported by the required number of citizens, it is sent for consideration to an expert working group at the appropriate level. For example, at the federal level, the expert group is headed by the Minister for Open Government, Mikhail Abyzov. This working group is the second filter on the initiative's path. But not the last. It is the expert working group that decides within two months whether to implement or reject the initiative.

The expert working group at the federal level includes representatives of federal bodies appointed by the Government of the Russian Federation executive power, deputies of the State Duma, members of the Federation Council, members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, representatives of the business community and public associations. The principles for forming working groups at other levels are similar.

The Presidential Decree does not name any criteria by which the expert group evaluates initiatives approved by citizens. These may be the same criteria that form the basis for placing an initiative on an Internet resource: the relevance of the problem and the validity of its solution (plus the support of citizens). In fact, The decision of the expert group can be completely arbitrary.

If the expert group has issued a positive conclusion on a public initiative, it also prepares a decision on developing an appropriate regulatory legal act or taking other measures to implement the initiative. That is, if a federal law is needed to implement an idea, the expert group must decide that it needs to be developed and submitted to the State Duma. Who develops the draft law and who submits it to the Duma? Probably, this task faces the Government of the Russian Federation and federal authorities executive power. One way or another, the State Duma or another body will third filter on the path of public initiative.

What are the results?

The ROI website does not have uniform statistics both on areas of concern to citizens and on the ratio of introduced and implemented initiatives. Among the initiatives adopted by citizens there are 15 initiatives. Of the 15 initiatives, 9 have already been implemented in regulatory legal acts. Of these, 8 federal initiatives were implemented despite the fact that they did not receive 100 thousand votes. What does this mean? For example, that the state was already going to solve the problem declared by citizens (there was no conflict like “citizens demand, but the state is against”). This means that the role of the ROI website here is zero.

What were these initiatives? Abolition of “zero ppm”, abolition of “mobile slavery”, introduction of the ability to choose a bank for salary transfers, introduction of “diagonal zebra crossings” at pedestrian crossings, permission to make duplicate license plates Vehicle, and others. Some of them are really useful to a large number of citizens, but they all solve only small, private problems - nothing global.

The only implemented initiative at the municipal level received only 2 votes “for” and 3 “against”. Obviously, citizens began to push through their initiative in other ways, and the ROI website did not help them at all.

Let's look at initiatives that received more than 100 thousand votes, but were not implemented.

The recent high-profile initiative of Alexei Navalny to ratify Article 20 of the UN Convention against Corruption as inconsistent with the Constitution of the Russian Federation. How then did it even get on the site if it does not meet the requirements of legality? Does this mean the Foundation is not competent enough to filter initiatives? But in the case of the ratification of Article 20 of the UN Convention against Corruption, something else is more interesting. Back in 2013, an impressive group of more than 100 deputies introduced a similar project to ratify Article 20 (No. 216235-6), and this is not the only such initiative. The bill received negative feedback The Government of the Russian Federation and the devastating conclusion of the Legal Department, but none of them referred to the unconstitutionality of Article 20 of the Convention. The project remains under consideration by the State Duma and has not yet been rejected.

Such a picture may demonstrate the fate of a public initiative that, by hook or by crook, penetrated the walls of the State Duma, but does not enjoy the support of the authorities. For example, if the expert group supported Navalny’s initiative, another project would be submitted to the State Duma. And there the project can be marinated for as long as desired, or simply rejected. And it doesn’t matter how many people supported the initiative - 100 thousand or 500 thousand.

In addition, the expert group rejected initiatives to ban officials from buying expensive cars, to abolish “flashing lights” for officials, to abolish the “law against the Internet,” to abolish the law on duties on goods from foreign online stores, as well as the initiative “My Home is Mine” fortress".

Voting is currently taking place on initiatives related to changing the rules of paid parking and canceling the evacuation of vehicles, which have already received 25 thousand votes in 4 months. Citizens (mainly Muscovites) do not like paid parking and car towing, but the authorities (Moscow ones in particular) really like them. Both bring considerable income to the treasury. It is known that the very introduction of paid parking and evacuation of cars and the transfer of corresponding powers to the regions was lobbied by the Moscow authorities. And it is already possible to predict on what grounds this initiative will not pass the “second filter” - the expert group. For example, on the initiative to ban flashing lights, the expert conclusion stated that more than half of the votes were cast by residents of Moscow, another 8 thousand votes were cast by residents of St. Petersburg, which means this is not relevant for all of Russia.

A whole block of initiatives reflects the negative attitude of the people towards officials and the oligarchy associated with them. Such initiatives include the following:

“Develop a mechanism for recall by citizens of the Russian Federation statesmen all levels";

“Prohibit firms of relatives of civil servants and deputies of any rank from participating in government tenders”;

“Check master's and doctoral dissertations of employees of state corporations, government agencies, and enterprises with 100% state participation for plagiarism”;

“Enshrining in the Traffic Regulations of the Russian Federation the responsibility of officials for the condition of roads in emergency situations”;

“Indicate information about the salaries of officials (with bonuses and allowances) for the last 3 months of work on badges, nameplates on offices and when quoted in the media”;

“Set salaries for heads of state corporations in an amount not exceeding 5 times the average wages employees of this corporation";

“Prohibit the sale of raw materials and energy resources on the foreign market at prices lower than the domestic market,” and others.

From this short sample it is clear that people are concerned about the irresponsibility of the authorities and the super-incomes of the heads of state corporations and officials against the backdrop of the impoverishment of the population. What are the chances that the government will meet the people halfway on these issues and approve initiatives directed against itself? The chances are almost zero.

Why doesn't ROI work?

The above analysis of public initiatives, the decision on which was made, led us to a paradoxical conclusion: the state implemented initiatives that did not receive the required number of votes, and ruined initiatives supported by more than 100 thousand citizens. Why is that?

The ROI project was initiated “from above”, by the state itself in the person of the President of the Russian Federation. It is implemented by a non-profit organization close to the state, which acts as the “first filter” on the path of initiatives. She allows initiatives directed against the government onto her Internet platform. But the next “filters” are the authorities, who will no longer let through something harmful to themselves or something with which they simply do not agree.

The very idea of ​​law-making initiative of citizens is not new. Even when it was introduced in Russia, they referred to Foreign experience. The practice of civil initiatives exists in the USA and the European Union (Lisbon Treaty on Amendments to the Founding Treaties of the EU). The people's legislative initiative exists in Switzerland, Italy, Australia, Peru, Spain, the USA, Germany and is provided for by the constitutions of Albania, Poland, Slovenia, Romania, Latvia and Lithuania.

Project federal law“On normative legal acts in the Russian Federation”, developed by the Ministry of Justice of Russia, provides for the possibility of introducing law-making initiatives of citizens at the level of constituent entities of the Russian Federation and municipalities. However, this project has not yet been submitted to the State Duma, and the rules on the law-making initiative of citizens are optional, that is, optional. Even the inclusion of the institution of law-making initiative of citizens in the charter of a subject of the Russian Federation does not guarantee the implementation of this institution (this situation has developed, for example, in the Moscow region).

A public initiative differs from a law-making initiative of citizens in that the second provides for the direct submission of a bill to parliament by citizens. The Institute of Public Initiative puts additional obstacles in the way of initiative. At the same time, the draft normative legal act itself is also developed not by “society”, but by the state. This is both a plus and a minus at the same time. On the one hand, citizens do not have the necessary knowledge to independently develop a package of legislative initiatives. On the other hand, there is no guarantee that the state, when developing its project, will accurately reflect the will of the society that initiated the project.

The ROI project was also criticized for possible falsification of voting results - stuffing of electronic votes, which is confirmed by identified statistical anomalies. If “ROI” is a state project, then the manifestation of “churovshchina” in it is natural.

Given the possible disadvantages of the direct law-making initiative of citizens in legislative bodies, they cannot become a justification for abandoning such an institution. At the same time, the “public initiative” in its current form, with its additional “filters” on the way of expression of the will of citizens, can be painlessly abolished. Although in the absence of direct civil legislative initiative, such a public initiative is better than nothing.

The draft Constitution of Russia, developed by the Sulakshin Center, provides for people's legislative initiative. Groups of citizens with the right to vote, numbering at least 100,000 people, have the right to directly submit draft laws to parliament as a legislative initiative. This institution, according to the draft Constitution of Russia, acts as one of the guarantees of democracy.

The current government is not interested in implementing the interests of citizens in legislation, so it invents some fakes like “ROI” that imitate democratic institutions. But when the people realize that most of their initiatives are blocked on far-fetched grounds, their hostility towards the authorities will only intensify.

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Russian public initiative - how to vote?

In 2013, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the portal of the Russian Public Initiative was created. With its help, any adult Russian citizen can put forward his proposal for consideration by the government. The work of the site is aimed at maintaining communication with the people and improving the quality of life of the population. In this article, we will look at how the portal works and how to use it.

How to register

The system will automatically open a login window to the State Services portal, where you will need to enter your password and login.

After logging in, you will be redirected back to the ROI website. The main conditions for successful registration on the ROI portal are a confirmed account on State Services and the presence of a confirmed address Email in the contact information. If these conditions are not met, a login error message will appear on the screen as shown in the image below.

To correct the error, we return to the State Services website, confirm the account in any convenient way (this will take from one to two days), and indicate a valid email address in the “Personal Data” section. We leave the office and repeat the above-described algorithm of actions. We immediately receive an offer to subscribe to the daily newsletter of new petitions. Letters will be sent to your email inbox.

Now you need to indicate your federal district, region and municipality, confirm your age and save your data. The account is ready to use.

Voting for initiatives

Depending on the coverage of the territory, projects on the ROI website are divided into 3 groups: federal, municipal and regional. To search for a project on home page In the filter line, select the level of interest, check the box and click “Apply filter”. We also select a section.

When you open a project you will see it Full description, justification for the proposed idea, voting end date and number of voters. At the very bottom of the page in the “Decision” frame there are buttons for voting “+” and “-”. You can change your vote within two hours of voting.

You should know! Every three years, with the help of the ROI website, citizens of the Russian Federation have the opportunity to elect members of the Public Chamber.

Publication of your initiative

In order to submit your proposal, you should log in to the ROI portal, click the “Publish initiative” button, and describe your thoughts in detail. In the near future, the initiative will be sent to the site moderators for review. If all the conditions for writing the text are met, if you do not call for violence, then your proposal will be published. After publication, the initiative will be open for voting to all citizens of the Russian Federation for one year.

The required number of votes for a project depends on the level of the initiative being put forward. For example, if a proposal is put forward at the municipal level, at least 5 percent of the population must vote positively. If the level is higher (federal), then you will need to collect at least one hundred thousand votes. When the votes are collected, the initiative is sent for consideration to the authorized bodies. The final decision on your proposal will be published on the ROI website.

The mechanisms of the Russian Public Initiative (ROI) system, launched in 2013 by decree of the President, need to be improved, especially at the regional and municipal levels. In particular, we are talking about the possible simplification of registration of discussion participants. And authorities should be obliged to take into account petitions and suggestions of citizens in their work, or openly argue why they cannot be taken into account. Such conclusions were reached by participants at a meeting of the Council for Interaction with Civil Society Institutions under the Chairman of the Federation Council. When modernizing this system, it is necessary to take into account the practices of regions in creating services for feedback from citizens, says Russian Minister for Open Government Mikhail Abyzov. To protect the rights of citizens during public discussions, the Open Government and the Public Chamber intend to initiate a number of changes to the legislation.

Every citizen of Russia over 18 years of age registered on the public services portal can put forward their own initiative or support any other on the ROI portal. For a federal initiative to be considered, it must receive 100 thousand votes in favor within a year. Initiatives at the federal level that have received sufficient support from citizens are submitted to a federal-level expert working group headed by Russian Minister Mikhail Abyzov. The threshold for considering initiatives at the regional level is also 100 thousand for regions with a population of over 2 million, for the rest - 5% of the region's population. For municipalities - 5% of their population.

Since the launch of the portal required amount 13 petitions at the federal level received votes, all of them were considered by an expert working group, and the conclusions based on the results of public discussion were sent to the authorities to be taken into account in their ongoing work. As for initiatives at the regional and municipal level, none of them were considered by expert working groups at the appropriate level.

It may be worth thinking about improving the classification system for public initiatives, to understand to what extent the conclusions of the expert working group are binding and final, and how the mechanism of public initiative is or is not included in the legislative process. It is worth thinking about the formation of a single electronic system feedback from authorities to civil society institutions and increase citizens’ confidence in the effectiveness of the electronic voting system,” said Nikolai Fedorov.

At the federal level, the system as a whole works, but citizens do not yet have the opportunity to monitor how their proposals are taken into account in the work of government bodies, agrees Mikhail Abyzov.

Based on the main proposals that the federal group developed and sent to the executive authorities, we are monitoring the quality of their implementation. However, there are some problems. Not all proposals are taken into account in a timely manner and government decisions are developed on their basis. I agree that we need to think about a mechanism, perhaps, for mandatory consideration of those proposals that are being developed,” the minister said.

To implement the mechanism at the regional level, according to him, all information opportunities have also been created, but so far at the level of constituent entities of the Russian Federation and municipalities, the ROI and petition institutes have not really started working. The reason, according to the minister, is that the system at this level requires mandatory identification of citizens through an electronic digital signature (EDS) system, and this is difficult and costly for an ordinary citizen. This system needs to be modernized and made closer to the consumer needs of the common person, taking into account the experience of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in creating services for receiving feedback from citizens, says Mikhail Abyzov. As an example, he cited the Moscow service “Active Citizen” and the Moscow region “Dobrodel”, within which the opinions of citizens are taken into account according to a different, simpler model.

These systems are more comfortable for ordinary people. Moscow and the Moscow region have created a good public infrastructure that properly supports the high-quality implementation of initiatives, proposals and comments that are collected. The popular vote itself and the collection of proposals will not work if people do not see how the government takes into account and for what reason it rejects supported initiatives. Taking these practices into account, we need to look at what changes can be made to the ROI system; perhaps, for regional and municipal modules, change the registration parameters of the main participants. It is necessary for the leaders of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to be more actively involved in this work so that the most significant issues can be brought to public discussion without hesitation and receive the very feedback for which the Open Government system was created,” the minister believes.

Regional officials need to be trained in the use of such services, Mikhail Abyzov emphasized. He recalled that a decision had previously been made to create courses at the University of Public Administration of the Moscow Government to train regional representatives in working with such systems. At the same time, regions can be offered a ready-made “cloud” solution, which will allow them to avoid additional costs for the implementation and operation of electronic services.

The main costs here will be related to the organization civil service and creating a different culture of public administration. Today we are sometimes focused on answering automatically, “for show,” but here we will need to respond and clearly indicate how the proposal is implemented. Today, only a few regions are able to do this efficiently: Moscow, the Moscow region, Tatarstan and some other constituent entities of the Russian Federation,” said Mikhail Abyzov.

But for efficient work We need to move with citizens in all directions: not only use new technologies, but also “reach out” to citizens personally, the minister emphasized. Only in this way, in his opinion, can the quality of decisions made be significantly changed.

In order to ensure that the rights of citizens are protected during various public discussions and that their opinions are taken into account by the authorities, it is planned to make changes to the legislation.

The Public Chamber and I intend to build more effective system take the initiative to introduce additions and clarifications to the laws on public control and the Public Chamber in order to provide for the mandatory nature of certain norms and procedures that would better protect the interests of citizens during public discussions,” said Mikhail Abyzov.

Secretary of the Public Chamber Alexander Brechalov, in turn, also noted the importance of working at the regional level, especially with citizens’ appeals. He recalled that federal legislation has rules that regulate the work of officials in responding to citizens’ requests. Meanwhile, as the practice of direct lines with the President of the Russian Federation shows, complaints are brought to the level of the head of state when people appealed to all officials at the regional level, but did not wait for a solution to the problem.

The Public Chamber receives more than 25 thousand requests every year. Almost 70–80% are proposals and problems that can definitely be solved at the regional level. My colleagues and I have included the quality of handling citizen requests as one of our key performance indicators. I believe that together we need to strengthen our work in this direction,” said the secretary of the Public Chamber.

The main priorities of the Open Government system were defined in the May decrees of the President. Behind last years, according to Mikhail Abyzov, together with State Duma, the Federation Council and the regions managed to create the foundation of an infrastructure that allows taking into account the opinions of citizens on a wide range of government decisions and the problems discussed.

In April 2013, the Public Initiative portal appeared on the RuNet. Its creation was sanctioned directly by the President of the Russian Federation and secured by a corresponding decree. The purpose of this portal is to provide any citizen of the country with the opportunity to directly contact authorities, sign petitions and participate in the promotion of public projects through voting. The project is located at roi.ru. Voting and any other actions on it are available only to users of the State Services portal - separate registration on the site is not provided. Further detailed analysis how to work with this service.

Portal features

On the website of public initiatives, each registered user can propose his own petition regarding public life country, region, city, etc. According to the presidential decree regulating the work of the portal, a petition that receives more than 100,000 votes in favor is transferred to a working group organized under the government specifically for these purposes.

Important! Since 2016, information about initiatives that have received at least 35,000 votes of support has also been transmitted to the State Duma.

After review, the commission decides whether to develop the proposed idea. It can be accepted and sent for work, or rejected with an explanation of the reasons on the portal.

What initiatives can be promoted?

The requirements for proposals that can be published on the portal of public initiatives are enshrined in Presidential Decree No. 183, adopted on March 4, 2013. The site has moderators who check all submitted proposals for compliance with these criteria. Once approved, the petition is published in the public domain.

You can make proposals regarding both changes in federal legislation and improving the quality of life in a particular locality. For example, it was thanks to this service that one of the pedestrian crossings in Izhevsk was organized and a ceremonial fountain was built in Kursk.

By the way, the ability to save the number cell phone when changing a telecom operator - also one of the public initiatives implemented using the roi.ru portal.

How many votes are needed for approval?

Once the proposal is published on the Roi website, voting must continue for a year. The number of votes required to submit a proposal to a government commission depends on the level of initiative:

• not less than 100,000 – for proposals of all-Russian significance;
• 100,000 – for regional initiatives (applies to regions with a population of more than 2,000,000 people);
• 5% of the number of residents of the region - for smaller regions;
• 5% of the population of the municipality – for proposals of municipal importance.

The period for expert review of a proposal that has passed the required threshold is 2 months. The decision made based on the results of work on the initiative must be published on the portal.

How to work with the service?

Before you start using the initiatives site, you must create your own account on it. The site rules provide for two types of accounts:

• standard;
• confirmed.

The first gives the user access to a limited set of functions, which does not include creating petitions and voting. The second opens up the full range of portal capabilities. This division was adopted in order to remove the possibility of cheating votes under the proposals made.

What do you need to register?

Login to the roi portal is possible only using the login and password created on the State Services service. Moreover, simply creating an account via the Internet is not enough; it must be confirmed. Otherwise, the user will not have access to one of the main services of roi.ru - voting. Public services offer several ways to confirm your account:

• through a visit to the MFC;
• by entering a personal code from a letter sent by the portal;
• using an electronic signature.

Important! The letter will be sent to the user at in paper form via Russian Post. The average delivery time is about two weeks.

Possible login problems

Having registered, the user can use the credentials he has to access the website of public initiatives. The login button is located in the upper right corner of the site page.

• whether the user’s contact email is indicated in the State Services account;
• Is it confirmed? email address.

If this contact is not in your profile or has not been verified, it will be impossible to access the public initiatives service. The system will simply give you a login error. In this case, you will have to return to State Services and fill out your profile.

Important: specifying an email is necessary, since this is where the user will receive all information about the initiatives he has put forward and other actions taken on the site.

How to participate in the vote?

A list of the most popular initiatives that are being voted on is published on the main page of the swarm website. If a portal visitor needs a specific petition, he can find it by number using the search bar at the top of the page. For those who are interested in a specific topic or proposals made in a certain region, the page also has appropriate filters.

To cast a vote, you just need to choose definite proposal from the list by clicking on its name. will appear on the monitor detailed description initiatives, and below is a voting form. By clicking the appropriate button (for or against), the user will see a message stating that his vote has been counted. The same message will arrive in his email in a minute.

How to track petitions?

In order to promptly learn about the appearance of new petitions, as well as the fate of initiatives for which a vote was cast, portal users can:

• visit the website account daily;
• subscribe to email notifications;
• Join one of the portal’s groups on social networks.

This service will certainly be useful for people with an active civic position.

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What is required to submit an initiative or vote on an initiative? 1. Be a citizen of Russia over 18 years of age. 3. Be registered on the portal Have access to a computer connected to the Internet. 4. Have a formulated initiative in order to propose it to the authorities.

1. 2. A search is available on the resource, which you can use to find existing initiatives on a given topic before publication. Directly when an initiative is published, the user will also be offered similar initiatives published on the resource. How to prevent the submission of two identical initiatives?

MUNICIPALREGIONALFEDERAL HOW TO VOTE FOR AN INITIATIVE? CHOOSE AN INITIATIVE AND VOTE FOR AGAINST THE VOTES ARE CONSIDERED BY EXPERTS, BUT ARE NOT SUBTRACTED FROM THE VOTES “FOR” NO YOU CAN REGISTER ON THE UNIFIED PUBLIC SERVICES PORTAL AND RECEIVE YOUR LOGIN AND PASSWORD IN ONE DAY! YOU ARE REGISTERED ON THE PORTAL YES TO VOTE

Voting for an initiative no more than 1 year It is necessary to collect at least 100 thousand votes of citizens Voting for an initiative no more than 1 year It is necessary to obtain at least 5% of the population of the corresponding constituent entity of the Russian Federation (for constituent entities of the Russian Federation with a population of more than 2 million - it is necessary to obtain support no less than citizens) Voting for an initiative no more than 1 year It is necessary to recruit at least 5% of the population of the corresponding municipality HOW DOES IT WORK? IF YOUR INITIATIVE RECEIVES THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF VOTES IT WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THE GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY YOU CAN MONITOR ALL STAGES OF CONSIDERATION OF YOUR INITIATIVE MUNICIPAL REGIONAL FEDERAL VOTING

What is included in the preliminary examination? 2. Checking for compliance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, generally recognized principles and norms of international law, including in the field of rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens, Article 6 of the Federal Law No. 5-FKZ “On Referendum”. 1. Check for the absence of obscene or offensive language, threats to the life or health of citizens, calls for extremist activities. 3. Checking for the presence of a description of the problem, options for solving the problem, and the validity of such options.

Raise the minimum wage to the real level Moratorium on increasing housing and communal services tariffs for 10 years Oblige JSC Russian Railways to build at its own expense two-level transport interchanges Control and justification of the need for privatization Introducing changes to some articles of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation on Copyright Regulating the number of stray animals 12 federal initiatives from Vologda region

Cancellation of Ministry of Internal Affairs permits for export and import civilian weapons when crossing the border Limit the export of capital Ban on the merger of the Supreme (SC) and Supreme Arbitration (SAC) courts of Russia Create independent television One standard for writing the last name (and first name) in Latin on a foreign passport and other government documents Introduction of banknotes in denominations of 200 and 2000 rubles 12 federal initiatives from the Vologda region

1. First Deputy Governor of the region A.I. Sherlygin approved an Action Plan to create a mechanism for public initiative in the region. 2. The deputy highest official of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation responsible for the implementation of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation and interaction with local government bodies has been determined - Deputy Governor of the region Alexey Yuryevich Makarovsky. What has been done in the Vologda region?

3. July 1, 2013, under the Deputy Governor of the region A.Yu. Makarovsky held a meeting on the implementation of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. 4. B municipal areas and urban districts, expert working groups have been created to review public initiatives at the municipal level.

5. Regulatory legal acts of the region have been brought into compliance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. Additions have been made to the Regulations of the Regional Government - !a new basis for the development normative act! July 2013, an Agreement on interaction in ensuring consideration of public initiatives was concluded between the Regional Government and the Foundation for the Development of Information Democracy and Civil Society….

7. Public discussion of the draft resolution of the Regional Government “On the regional expert working group for the consideration of public initiatives.” 8. Preliminary discussion of the draft resolution of the Regional Government “On RERG on RIO” at a meeting of the public council under the Regional Government. 9. Resolution of the Regional Government dated 745 “On the regional expert working group for the consideration of public initiatives” approved the regulations on the regional group and its composition.

September 2013 took part in the videoconferencing on the implementation of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation at the regional and local level under the leadership of Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation I.O. Shchegolev October! The first meeting of the regional expert working group to consider public initiatives took place! October information about those authorized to work in personal account on ROI sent to the Foundation for Information Democracy

13. On October 3, information about those authorized to work in their personal account at the ROI was sent to the Information Democracy Foundation October Regional Governor O.A. At a meeting of the expanded council of the Public Chamber of the region, Kuvshinnikov launched the implementation of the federal project “Russian Public Initiative” in the region

October RERG organized a meeting in videoconferencing mode for the municipal level EWG on the implementation of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. October, another meeting was held in videoconferencing mode with regions on the implementation of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation

To fulfill the main task, the EWG performs the following functions: 1) conducts an examination and makes a decision on the advisability of developing a draft of the relevant regulatory legal act and (or) on other measures to implement the public initiative; 2) sends an expert opinion and a decision on the feasibility of developing a draft of the relevant regulatory legal act and (or) on other measures to implement the public initiative to the regional government authority in accordance with its competence; 3) sends to the authorized non-profit organization notification of consideration of a public initiative (electronic form).

What needs to be done in the Vologda region? 1. Authorized employees register on gosuslugi.ru and gosuslugi.ruwww.roi.ru 3. On November 1, 2013, inform the population about the federal ROI project. 2. Conduct an examination of the municipal act on the expert group at the municipal level.

Email address of the secretary of the expert group (direct!), - work number and mobile phone Secretary, - regulations on the expert group and composition of the expert group. 4. Send the following information by email by November 15, 2013.