Penza, 22 November 2012. PenzaNews. Members of the State Duma rejected a bill “On Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation to enhance responsibility of officials for violating the procedure of consideration of people’s requests,” which was introduced by the representative of the Communist Party faction Vladimir Simagin from Penza and Andrei Tychinin from the Republic of Bashkortostan.

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According to the press service of the Penza Communist Party Regional Committee, the Communist members proposed to increase the maximum fine for officials for late or poor response from 5 to 30 thousand rubles.

“The chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction Vladimir Pligin, speaking at the plenary session, noted that five thousand rubles is a considerable amount of money for an official, so the United Russia faction will not support the proposed bill,” explained the press service.