Popular Front: Pensions, prison and porn

Vladimir Putin’s All-Russian Popular Front has published its program agenda, proposing that Russians, if they wish to, increase their pension age, that a new Penal Code be developed and a system of public control of television be introduced.

The so-called “People’s Initiatives Program” was posted on Monday on the website of the ruling United Russia party, which is chaired by Prime Minister Putin. The document will lay grounds for the faction’s program at the upcoming State Duma elections.

Among the priorities the Popular Front sets are the modernization of the economy and defense, a slowdown of inflation, fighting corruption, the development of regions, and a renewal of the political system.   Read More