On 13 July my first session as a State Duma deputy came to an end, and I’ve decided to sum up the results. They can be divided into two parts: first, things that were done by all the deputies (the Duma’s team report, you might say); and second, things that I personally did for my voters and for people who have written asking for help (my personal report for the past half-year in the Duma).
As far as part 1 is concerned, 164 federal laws were passed during the session and 3 federal constitutional laws were approved. These included some very important laws in the sphere of social policy: grants were increased; state sector wages and servicemen’s pay were indexed; and pensions, benefits and welfare payments were indexed twice during the year. For the first time in law, child benefits were indexed. Plus, of course, the law on raising the minimum wage to the subsidence level.
I would also mention the Law on Guardianship and Trusteeship, amendments to the Labour Code that give legal recognition to some issues concerning the work of sportsmen and trainers, and Russia’s accession to the WHO framework convention on tobacco control. In addition, the State Duma passed a resolution on the Public Youth Chamber under the State Duma.
Now for my personal report: during the spring session I received 92 appeals from Russian citizens, and followed them up by sending off 70 official deputy’s requests. In the city of Nizhnekamsk (my constituency) I set up a public liaison office, and during a trip to the region in late May I held a surgery for constituents. On Russia Youth Day on 27 June 2008, at the plenary session, virtually all the deputies supported my initiative to ask President Dmitriy Medvedev to declare 2009 Youth Year. There was also a lot of heated debate in the Youth Committee on the bill on state youth policy in the Russian Federation.
That’s all for now. I’d like to have done more, of course, but I hope I’ll manage this during the next session. This is just the start.☺