MOSCOW, Apr 25A foreign agent cannot be appointed to positions in public authorities, including filling positions in the state civil and municipal service, being a member of an election commission, according to the draft law on control over the activities of persons under foreign influence, introduced to the State Duma on Monday by a group of deputies and senators. The text of the document is published in the Duma electronic database. According to the text of the bill, an individual included in the register of foreign agents cannot be appointed to positions in public authorities, including filling positions in the state civil service and municipal service, be a member of an election commission, commission referendum. In addition, the inclusion of an official or a citizen in the register of foreign agents may be grounds for denial of access to state secrets.16:06 The Federation Council Commission will discuss a new draft law on foreign agents at the end of May to the public monitoring committee. In addition, foreign agents are not allowed to conduct an independent anti-corruption examination of regulatory legal acts (draft regulatory legal acts). and holding a referendum, achieving a certain result in elections, a referendum, as well as participating in election campaigns, referendum campaigns in other forms. Also, foreign agents are prohibited from making donations to the election funds of candidates and referendum funds. In order to organize and hold a public event, it is prohibited to transfer or receive money and transfer or receive other property from foreign agents. According to the document, donations to a political party and its regional branches are not allowed from foreign agents, as well as transactions with them. Foreign agents are required to report the presence of their status to employees, public authorities to which they apply, and mark their materials, follows from the draft law. «Foreign agents are required to report the presence of such status to their employees, public authorities to which they apply, lobbying for their interests, are obliged to label the materials they produce,» the explanatory materials say. 02The Ministry of Justice will be able to request from the RKN access restrictions to the site foreign agent
