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Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (abbr. Public Chamber, OP RF) is an advisory and advisory body in the Russian Federation, created in 2005. Members of the Public Chamber are not paid for their activities. However, the Public Chamber itself is publicly funded and participates in public procurement on an equal basis with federal authorities.

Public Chamber of the Russian Federation
OP RF

Date of foundation	July 1, 2005
Type of	An advisory state advisory body funded from the federal budget
Number of participants	168
Secretary	Fadeev Valery Alexandrovich
125993, Moscow, Miusskaya square, 7, building 1.
Site	oprf.ru

History

In Russia, the Public Chamber at the federal level was created by an order of the President of the Russian Federation in 1994 and was called the Public Chamber under the President of the Russian Federation. In 1996, by the decree of President B. Yeltsin, the Public Chamber was transformed into the Political Consultative Council under the President of the Russian Federation, in 2000, by the decree of President V. Putin, this body was abolished.

The modern "Public Chamber" was formed in 2005 and started working in January 2006. The Public Chamber is elected every three years (until 2012 - every two years).

The order of the chamber's activities, the order of its decision-making, the holding of plenary sessions are regulated by the Rules of Procedure of the Public Chamber.

The regulations were adopted at a plenary meeting of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on January 22, 2006, establishes the rules of internal organization and determines the procedure for the activities of the Public Chamber, its bodies, members and staff in accordance with Federal Law No. 32-FZ of April 4, 2005 "On the Public Chamber Russian Federation". On December 21, 2015, by the decision of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Regulations of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation were adopted in a new edition.

Composition

The Public Chamber is formed as follows: after consultations, the President of Russia determines the candidacies of 40 members of the Chamber. They, in turn, must agree or refuse the proposal within 30 days, after which the President finally approves 40 members of the Public Chamber by his decree.

At the next stage, the public chambers of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation elect from among their members by secret alternative voting one representative with an impeccable reputation to the Public Chamber at their meetings by a majority vote of the total number of members of the respective public chambers. At the same time, a member of the Public Chamber cannot simultaneously be the head of the Public Chamber of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation. In the event that the head of the public chamber of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation is elected to the Public Chamber, he must resign his powers as the head of the public chamber of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.

In order to determine forty-three representatives from all-Russian public associations and other non-profit organizations, members of the Civic Chamber of the current composition, as well as members of the Civic Chamber approved by the President of the Russian Federation, together with members of the Civic Chamber from the civic chambers of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, form a new composition in accordance with the Regulations of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation Federation working group to organize and conduct a competition for the selection of forty-three members of the Public Chamber from all-Russian public associations and other non-profit organizations. The working group includes six members of the Civic Chamber of the current composition, three members of the Civic Chamber from among the members of the Civic Chamber approved by the President of the Russian Federation and three members of the Civic Chamber from the civic chambers of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

All-Russian public associations and other non-profit organizations send applications to the working group to nominate their representatives to the Public Chamber.

Based on the results of the rating Internet voting using the Internet resource "Russian Public Initiative", the working group determines the composition of the Public Chamber for three representatives of all-Russian public associations and other non-profit organizations for each area of public activity, who have received the majority of votes (in descending order of the number of votes), as well as one representative of an all-Russian public association or other non-profit organization that won the majority of votes among representatives of all-Russian public associations and other non-profit organizations that took fourth places in their areas of public activity.

According to federal law No. 294-FZ of November 2, 2013, the Public Chamber now consists of 168 (previously - of 166) members, representing 3 equal groups. These are 85 representatives of regional public chambers; 40 citizens of the Russian Federation, who are approved by the President of the Russian Federation; 43 representatives of all-Russian public associations and other non-profit organizations (determined by the results of voting by members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, approved by the President of the Russian Federation, and members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation from public chambers of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation).

According to the Federal Law "On the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation", it is not allowed to nominate candidates for members of the chamber by organizations in respect of which a warning was issued about the inadmissibility of carrying out extremist activities, as well as organizations whose activities were suspended by a court in accordance with the law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities. ".

According to the Rules of Procedure of the Public Chamber, members of the Chamber take personal part in its work, carry out their activities on a voluntary basis, have equal rights when discussing and making decisions of the Public Chamber, have the right to elect and be elected to elective offices and bodies of the Public Chamber.

For the 2017 elections of the Public Chamber, the previously used online voting was canceled.

Public Chamber of the Russian Federation of the fifth composition

A significant part of the members of the Public Chamber is not engaged in any activity in it. Former Secretary of the Public Chamber Alexander Brechalov said that about half of the members of the Chamber do nothing. According to Brechalov's successor Valery Fadeev, it is impossible to force such members of the Public Chamber to work or to exclude them from its composition.

Activity

According to the Federal Law "On the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation", the activities of the Public Chamber are aimed at harmonizing the interests of citizens, public associations, state authorities and local governments to address the most important issues of economic and social development, ensuring national security, protecting the rights and freedoms of citizens, the constitutional order and democratic principles for the development of civil society in the country.

The Public Chamber conducts a public examination of socially significant draft federal laws, draft laws of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, draft regulatory legal acts of the executive authorities of the Russian Federation and draft legal acts of local government bodies.

The work of the Public Chamber is carried out in accordance with the annually approved Action Plan of the Public Chamber and the Plan of Public Expertise.

The Council of the Public Chamber annually approves the Action Plan of the Public Chamber and the Plan of Public Expertise on the basis of proposals from the commissions and working groups, and the Office of the Public Chamber is instructed to organize work according to these plans.

Project "Perspective"

On May 20, 2016, on the website of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, the appeal of the Secretary of the Chamber A.V. Brechalov to the citizens of the Russian Federation to come and vote on May 22 at the primaries was published. A. V. Brechalov assured the Russians that in the primaries they will be able to "choose exactly those whom they want to see as candidates from the United Russia party in their region for the upcoming elections." The speeches of A. V. Brechalov and other members of the public chambers in support of the primaries of "United Russia" caused negative responses. Former member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation E. Lukyanova called the campaigning for participation in the primaries by members of the federal and regional public chambers illegal, noting that "members of the Public Chamber have no right to allow any form of support for political parties."

The following members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation participated as candidates in the primaries of United Russia to the State Duma in 2016, as was reported to voters on the website of the Chamber (indicating the constituencies in which these persons were nominated):

Structure

In 2006, at the first plenary meeting of the Public Chamber, its structure was formed. It was decided to form commissions in accordance with the most important areas of public life. At the moment, there are 18 active commissions in the chamber. In order to promptly resolve the most acute, topical issues, the Council of the Public Chamber was created. It includes the deputy secretaries of the RF OP and the chairmen of all commissions. Each member of the Public Chamber is a member of one commission with a decisive vote, and at his will he can be a member of other commissions with an advisory vote.

The Council of the Public Chamber includes: Honorary Secretary of the Public Chamber; Secretary of the Public Chamber; First Deputy Secretary of the Public Chamber; Deputy Secretaries of the Public Chamber; chairmen of the commissions of the Public Chamber; Chief of Staff of the Public Chamber. The Council of the Public Chamber meets, as a rule, once every two weeks.

Commissions

Commissions and inter-commission working groups created by the decision of the Public Chamber are formed for a period not exceeding the term of office of the Public Chamber of the next composition. The number of members of each commission is determined by the Council of the Public Chamber, but there cannot be less than 5 members of the Chamber. A member of the Public Chamber can be a member of only one commission. A member of the commission has the right to take part in the work of other commissions with an advisory vote and in the work of inter-commission working groups. The Commission may not include the Secretary of the Public Chamber, the first deputy and deputy secretaries of the Public Chamber.

The meetings of the commission are held, as a rule, once a month. Information about the work of the commission is posted on the website of the Public Chamber.

Information about the work of the commission is posted on the website of the Chamber. A meeting of the Commission of the Public Chamber is competent if it is attended by more than half of the total number of members of the Commission.

By the decision of the Public Chamber of the sixth convocation (2017-2020), 19 commissions were created.

Commission for the Protection of Citizens' Health and Healthcare Development, Chairman - Bokeria Leo Antonovich;
Commission for Physical Culture and Promotion of a Healthy Lifestyle, Chairman - Irina Aleksandrovna Viner-Usmanova;
Commission on Ecology and Environmental Protection, Chairperson - Albina Evgenievna Dudareva;
Commission for Public Control, Public Expertise and Interaction with Public Councils, Chairman - Grib Vladislav Valerievich;
Commission for Territorial Development and Local Self-Government, Chairman - Andrey Maksimov;
Commission on Charity, Civic Education and Social Responsibility, Chairman - Alexander Tkachenko;
Commission for Youth Affairs, Volunteerism Development and Patriotic Education, Chairman - Elena Moiseevna Tsunaeva;
Commission for the Development of Public Diplomacy, Humanitarian Cooperation and Preservation of Traditional Values, Chairperson - Elena Vasilievna Sutormina;
Commission on Security and Interaction with POC, Chairperson - Maria Kannabikh;
Commission for the Support of Family, Motherhood and Childhood, Chairperson - Diana Gudaevna Gurtskaya;
Commission for Harmonization of Interethnic and Interreligious Relations, Chairman - Iosif Evgenievich Diskin;
Commission for the Development of the Information Community, Mass Media and Mass Communications, Chairman - Evgeny A. Primakov;
Commission for the Development of Culture and Preservation of Spiritual Heritage, Chairman - Andrey Kovalchuk;
Commission for the Development of Education and Science, Chairman - Mikhail Aslanovich Pogosyan;
Commission for the Development of Economy, Entrepreneurship, Services and the Consumer Market, Chairman - Boris Sergeevich Aleshin;
Commission for Housing and Utilities, Construction and Roads, Chairman - Igor Leonidovich Shpektor;
Commission on Social Policy, Labor Relations, Interaction with Trade Unions and Support for Veterans, Chairperson - Natalya Borisovna Pochinok;
Commission for the Development of the Non-Profit Sector and Support of Socially Oriented NGOs, Chairperson - Elena Topoleva-Soldunova;
Commission for the Development of the Agroindustrial Complex and Rural Areas, chaired by Evgenia Yurievna Uvarkina.

Working groups

To conduct a public examination of draft regulatory legal acts, as well as for other purposes, working groups may be formed, which are temporary working bodies of the Public Chamber.

The working group for conducting public expertise is formed by the commission of the Public Chamber, which is responsible for conducting public expertise. The composition of such a working group is approved by the Council of the Public Chamber.

The decision on the formation of working groups for other purposes is taken by the Council of the Public Chamber at the suggestion of the Commission of the Public Chamber. The leaders of such working groups are approved by the Council of the Public Chamber.

Office of the Chamber

The apparatus of the Public Chamber, in accordance with the Federal Law "On the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation", is a state institution and provides organizational, legal, analytical, informational, documentary, financial and material and technical support for the activities of the Public Chamber, the Commissioner under the President of the Russian Federation for the rights of the child. The apparatus of the Public Chamber shall preliminarily consider the applications of citizens and organizations received by the Public Chamber, transmit these applications to the relevant bodies of the Public Chamber, on whose behalf it conducts events and prepares draft responses.

The functional responsibilities of the structural divisions of the Office of the Public Chamber are brought to the notice of all members of the Chamber. The Chief of Staff of the Public Chamber annually informs the members of the Chamber about the activities of the Staff.

By order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 04.08.2017 No. 1687-r "On the head of the federal government institution" Apparatus of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation "Andreev Pavel Viktorovich was appointed the head of the Apparatus of the Public Chamber.

Cooperation

A public chamber may involve in its work public associations, other non-profit organizations and other associations of citizens of the Russian Federation whose representatives are not included in its composition. The decision on participation in the work of the Public Chamber of public associations, other non-profit organizations and other associations of citizens of the Russian Federation, whose representatives are not included in its composition, is adopted by the Council of the Public Chamber. In his interview to the magazine "Russian Reporter" after being elected secretary of the Public Chamber, Valery Fadeev in 2017, explained that activists who are fighting the government are "not our partners." The journalist of the publication inquired about the reason for this position, but that Fadeev replied: "You shouldn't confuse activism with provocation."

The international cooperation

Since 2011, the Chamber has been a member of the Presidium of the International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (AICESIS), a Memorandum was signed with the European Socio-Economic Committee. In 2013, Russia took over the leadership of MAESSSI. In 2015, she transferred powers to the Dominican Republic.

Management

The public chamber is headed by a secretary.

Since June 19, 2017, the position has been held by Valery Aleksandrovich Fadeev.

The Secretary of the Public Chamber is elected from among the members of the Public Chamber by open vote at the first plenary meeting of the Public Chamber. The Public Chamber may decide to hold an open vote. A member of the Public Chamber nominated for election as the Secretary of the Public Chamber has the right to declare self-rejection. The statement of self-rejection is accepted without discussion or vote. During the discussion, which is held on all candidates who have agreed to be elected secretary of the Public Chamber, candidates speak at a meeting of the Chamber and answer questions from members of the Public Chamber. Members of the Public Chamber have the right to speak "for" or "against" the candidate, after which the discussion ends. The Secretary of the Public Chamber is considered elected if more than half of the total number of members of the Chamber voted for him. The Secretary of the Public Chamber is elected for his term of office as a member of the Public Chamber.

Secretary's powers

The Secretary of the Public Chamber is in charge of the internal regulations of the Public Chamber; organizes the work of the Council of the Public Chamber and presides over its meetings; carries out general management of the activities of the Office of the Public Chamber, coordinates the main documents regulating its activities; forms the draft agenda of the meeting of the Public Chamber; signs decisions, appeals, invitations and other documents adopted by the Public Chamber, the Council of the Public Chamber, as well as requests of the Public Chamber sent to federal government bodies, government bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local government bodies, state and municipal organizations; prepares received bills and other documents for consideration at a meeting of the Council of the Public Chamber; sends the bills and other documents submitted to the Public Chamber to the commissions of the Public Chamber; represents the Chamber; submits the conclusions of the Public Chamber based on the results of the examination of draft laws of the Russian Federation on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation; submits the conclusions of the Public Chamber on violations of the law; signs administrative documents, documents sent on behalf of the Public Chamber; participates in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation in the formation of public oversight commissions.

Honorary Secretary

The Honorary Secretary of the Public Chamber is elected from among the members of the Public Chamber by open vote at the first plenary meeting of the Public Chamber. Members of the Public Chamber propose the candidacy of the Honorary Secretary of the Public Chamber. Moreover, each member of the Public Chamber has the right to propose only one candidate. An honorary secretary of the Public Chamber must have an impeccable reputation, enjoy unconditional authority among colleagues. The Honorary Secretary is a voting member of the Council of the Public Chamber. Powers of the Honorary Secretary of the Public Chamber: represents the Public Chamber in relations with international, foreign and domestic organizations, participates in the work of international organizations, as well as in the work of international conferences, meetings and other events; represents the Public Chamber in relations with state and municipal authorities, political, public and commercial organizations, the media; awards with public awards established by the Public Chamber; exercises other powers on behalf of the Council of the Public Chamber.

Honorary President of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "National Research Center" Kurchatov Institute ", Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Velikhov Evgeny Pavlovich was elected Honorary Secretary of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation of the new composition on June 16, 2014 at the first plenary session of the chamber.

House elections

In 2014, the first online elections for a part of the Public Chamber were held. 266 candidates applied for 42 seats, only those registered on the portal of state services could vote. To register, it was necessary to fill out an online application form (a passport and SNILS are required) and obtain an access password at the Rostelecom branch; in an accelerated mode, you can register in the chamber building. During online voting in 2014, according to a number of media outlets, there was a sharp increase in votes for a number of candidates who did not run an active election campaign, as well as accusations of using administrative resources in Moscow and St. after voting, as well as the use of extras). Internet voting to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation VI of the composition in 2017 was not carried out, since it was canceled.

Regional public chambers

Financing

As of 2013, the Public Chamber was financed from the federal budget: the allocated funds were used to pay for the travel of members of the Public Chamber, to hold meetings and to maintain the staff of the Chamber.

Public chamber reports

Evaluations

Sociological studies show that the level of trust of the overwhelming majority of Russians in the Public Chamber is extremely low, and the majority of the country's population does not know about the very existence of this body. A poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation in 2012 showed that only 3% of respondents assess the activities of the Chamber positively, and 54% did not know about its existence at all. Similar results were shown by a study conducted by the Levada Center in February 2014: 53% of respondents heard about the existence of the Public Chamber, and 11% of respondents consider its activities useful for the country.

Criticism

Formally, the Public Chamber was created to take into account the needs and interests of citizens of the Russian Federation, to protect their rights and freedoms, as well as the rights of public associations. Formally, the Public Chamber should not support any of the political parties. However, in practice this is not always the case. For example, in May 2016, the Public Chamber supported the primaries of the United Russia party, publishing positive articles about this internal party event before the vote and campaigning for some of the participants in this internal party event. Many Russian non-governmental human rights organizations consider the activities of the Public Chamber to be an imitation [ ]. The Public Chamber annually submits a report on the state of civil society in Russia, which is prepared not by members of the chamber, but by a competitively selected commercial structure, which may not be a human rights organization (for example, in 2016, the report was entrusted to a sewing company).

The Public Chamber of the Russian Federation is criticized by non-governmental human rights organizations in Russia. In 2016, Valery Borshchev, a representative of the Moscow Helsinki Group, noted that the Public Chamber never took into account the opinion of large human rights non-profit organizations and "always distances itself from society." The head of the movement "For Human Rights" Lev Ponomarev said: "The OP was created from above and from the very beginning we were against its appearance"

Experts from the Committee for Civil Initiatives (KIG) and the All-Russian Civil Forum (OGF) conducted a survey on the work of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. Recall that the KGI was created by ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin after he left the government. The OGF is a kind of congress of experts, which has been held since 2013 and was originally initiated by the OGF.

The results of the polls can hardly be called positive for the Public Chamber. So, assessing the effectiveness of the OP RF on a 10-point scale, exactly a quarter of 140 experts gave 3. Another 18.6% rated the work of the organization by 2 points, and 17.9% gave a count at all. The next most popular answer is 5 (12.9%). The experts of the OGI and the OGF also gave a low assessment to the extent to which the Public Chamber represents the interests of civil society institutions. The most popular rating of 2 points scored 27.9%, 3 points were given by 18.6% of experts, and 1 point - 16.4%.

“According to the experts of the KGI and the FMG, who took part in the survey, the Public Chamber poorly represents the interests of civil society institutions,” the researchers make an categorical conclusion.

Recall that the Public Chamber was created to formalize the institutions of civil society and is under the jurisdiction of the Presidential Administration (AP). Soon after the appointment of the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, information began to appear in the media that he intended to change the vector of the chamber's work.

Previously, the structure was often criticized for automatically supporting all key decisions of the Russian authorities, while civil society, in theory, should control and limit initiatives from above. In addition, it was said that the OP RF is not the spokesman for the opinion of the entire Russian public.

Against this background, Vedomosti also reported that representatives of the Civil Initiatives Committee could get into the new composition of the Public Chamber. The KGI and the OGF largely consist, if not of opposition, then of experts who are critical of the authorities, united by the authority of Alexei Kudrin.

In the course of the survey, the experts were also asked to name a specific member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation representing the interests of their sector. The overwhelming majority of experts (84) did not mention anyone. 18 named Elena Topoleva-Soldunova, five voted for State Duma deputy Lyubov Dukhanina, who is no longer a member of the RF OP. The rest of the representatives of the RF OP received even less mentions.

The head of the RF OP, Alexander Brechalov, was mentioned by two experts. But this is not the worst result either. The overwhelming majority of the rating participants were mentioned by only one expert.

The experts were also asked to name the commissions that are closest to their field of activity and evaluate their work. However, here the assessments are far from positive. So, for example, none of the 13 experts who undertook to evaluate the commission of the chamber for the development of the information community gave either it or its individual members a “good” rating.

“The current composition, especially with Potupchik (Christina Potupchik heads the commission. - Gazeta.Ru), is just a mockery of the journalistic community,” one of the respondents' comments is quoted.

For the majority of other commissions and its members, the prevailing ratings are “bad” and “difficult to answer”. There are exceptions, though. For example, four out of 12 experts rated Elena Topoleva-Soldunova, a member of the social policy commission, “good”. Three others rated her work as "satisfactory." Talking about the members of the commission in general, four experts noted their work as "satisfactory", and four more found it difficult to answer.

Of the two experts assessing the members of the commission for the harmonization of interethnic relations, one gave a "good" rating to the chairman of the commission, Iosif Diskin. Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin was honored with the same fate.

The commission on the issues of the agro-industrial complex stands apart. Members generally have more positive “good” ratings.

In addition to these assessments, the authors of the study drew up draft recommendations to improve the work of the Public Chamber. They begin with a quote from Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2004, where he says that “people must be sure that their opinion will be heard”, and only then can society be counted on to help fight terrorism. Then Putin proposed to create the Public Chamber as a "platform for broad dialogue."

All the recommendations of the OIG and FMG representatives are motivated by the fact that they want to give the OP to its original functions. To achieve this goal, the authors of the study propose to change the composition of the chamber and the mechanisms of its formation. However, as representatives of the OIG make reservations (since now the process of forming a new composition of the chamber is not far off), the change in the rules should be left already for 2019.

Experts recommend to the current convocation of the OP RF to increase the number of professionals instead of "conformists and unconditional loyalists." Otherwise, as the authors of the recommendations note, the function of civil control over the work of the state apparatus cannot be realized.

"It is impossible to imagine effective civil control over the work of an official if the official chooses a controller for himself, which, alas, happened in practice during the formation of chambers of previous convocations," experts regret.

Speaking about the part of the chamber, formed from representatives of non-profit organizations, the authors of the study propose to form it at the expense of organizations with a “stable reputation”. The main requirements are: the activities of the organization for at least three years; experience of actual activity in the direction in which the activity is officially conducted; a motivation letter from a candidate for the OP RF; providing links to reports of the organization.

By 2019, the authors of the recommendations propose to establish new rules for the formation of the chamber. Among them is the rejection of the presidential quota, and possibly the quota from regional public chambers. Instead, the experts propose to enable NGOs and public associations to register as voters and vote for the composition of the OP themselves. In addition, the authors of the concept propose to introduce a restriction on election to the RF OP within three years after leaving the government.

In the future, experts intend to strengthen the practice of "zero readings" in the chamber, as well as even give the body the right to initiate legislation.

However, in the OP RF itself, these proposals were treated rather coolly. A source close to the leadership of the body expressed surprise that only their own experts were involved in the study of the OIG and the OGF and were not interviewed, for example, participants in the "Community" forums held by the RF OP. He also expressed bewilderment why the members of the chamber were very selectively invited to discuss the report. “In addition, some of the results are surprising. So, why was Dukhanina mentioned, who, even during the elections, resigned from her powers as a member of the OP RF, ”the source comments.

Yulia Zimova, a member of the OP commission for supporting families, children and motherhood, in an interview with Gazeta.Ru, expressed regret that the authors of the study did not contact her and did not give their assessment of the activities of the OP RF before that.

Speaking about the potential of the structure's real influence on political processes, political scientist Yevgeny Minchenko compares the Public Chamber with public councils under the ministries. Somewhere they become active and influential, and somewhere they don't.

“The effectiveness of the functionality of such organizations directly depends on how it is used. The potential of the Public Chamber may be higher than the one that is now, ”Minchenko agrees with the results of the study.

He believes that the conditional "systemic liberals", of which Kudrin is considered to be the informal leader, would in any case be interested in bringing their experts to the OP: “They missed the parliamentary electoral cycle. This means that they need another structure with some kind of official status. "

The effectiveness of such moves as conducting and publishing such a study largely depends on whether the presidential administration itself intends to play such a “game” with Kudrin or not.

Public Chamber of the Russian Federation
OP RF

Date of foundation	July 1, 2005
Type of	An advisory state advisory body funded from the federal budget
Number of participants	168
Secretary	Fadeev Valery Alexandrovich
125993, Moscow, Miusskaya square, 7, building 1.
Site	oprf.ru

History

The modern "Public Chamber" was formed in 2005 and started working in January 2006. The Public Chamber is elected every three years (until 2012 - every two years).

The order of the chamber's activities, the order of its decision-making, the holding of plenary sessions are regulated by the Rules of Procedure of the Public Chamber.

Composition

All-Russian public associations and other non-profit organizations send applications to the working group to nominate their representatives to the Public Chamber.

For the 2017 elections of the Public Chamber, the previously used online voting was canceled.

Public Chamber of the Russian Federation of the fifth composition

Activity

The work of the Public Chamber is carried out in accordance with the annually approved Action Plan of the Public Chamber and the Plan of Public Expertise.

Project "Perspective"

Structure

Commissions

The meetings of the commission are held, as a rule, once a month. Information about the work of the commission is posted on the website of the Public Chamber.

By the decision of the Public Chamber of the sixth convocation (2017-2020), 19 commissions were created.

Commission for the Protection of Citizens' Health and Healthcare Development, Chairman - Bokeria Leo Antonovich;
Commission for Physical Culture and Promotion of a Healthy Lifestyle, Chairman - Irina Aleksandrovna Viner-Usmanova;
Commission on Ecology and Environmental Protection, Chairperson - Albina Evgenievna Dudareva;
Commission for Public Control, Public Expertise and Interaction with Public Councils, Chairman - Grib Vladislav Valerievich;
Commission for Territorial Development and Local Self-Government, Chairman - Andrey Maksimov;
Commission on Charity, Civic Education and Social Responsibility, Chairman - Alexander Tkachenko;
Commission for Youth Affairs, Volunteerism Development and Patriotic Education, Chairman - Elena Moiseevna Tsunaeva;
Commission for the Development of Public Diplomacy, Humanitarian Cooperation and Preservation of Traditional Values, Chairperson - Elena Vasilievna Sutormina;
Commission on Security and Interaction with POC, Chairperson - Maria Kannabikh;
Commission for the Support of Family, Motherhood and Childhood, Chairperson - Diana Gudaevna Gurtskaya;
Commission for Harmonization of Interethnic and Interreligious Relations, Chairman - Iosif Evgenievich Diskin;
Commission for the Development of the Information Community, Mass Media and Mass Communications, Chairman - Evgeny A. Primakov;
Commission for the Development of Culture and Preservation of Spiritual Heritage, Chairman - Andrey Kovalchuk;
Commission for the Development of Education and Science, Chairman - Mikhail Aslanovich Pogosyan;
Commission for the Development of Economy, Entrepreneurship, Services and the Consumer Market, Chairman - Boris Sergeevich Aleshin;
Commission for Housing and Utilities, Construction and Roads, Chairman - Igor Leonidovich Shpektor;
Commission on Social Policy, Labor Relations, Interaction with Trade Unions and Support for Veterans, Chairperson - Natalya Borisovna Pochinok;
Commission for the Development of the Non-Profit Sector and Support of Socially Oriented NGOs, Chairperson - Elena Topoleva-Soldunova;
Commission for the Development of the Agroindustrial Complex and Rural Areas, chaired by Evgenia Yurievna Uvarkina.

Working groups

To conduct a public examination of draft regulatory legal acts, as well as for other purposes, working groups may be formed, which are temporary working bodies of the Public Chamber.

Office of the Chamber

Cooperation

The international cooperation

Management

The public chamber is headed by a secretary.

Since June 19, 2017, the position has been held by Valery Aleksandrovich Fadeev.

Secretary's powers

Honorary Secretary

House elections

Regional public chambers

Public Chamber of the Kaliningrad Region

Financing

Public chamber reports

The Public Chamber provides the federal government with annual reports on the development of civil society in Russia. The texts of the reports are prepared by third-party organizations that may have nothing to do with human rights activities. For example, a firm that specializes in tailoring won the tender for the report of the Chamber in 2016. Four and a half million rubles were allocated from the budget for the preparation of the report. At the same time, such long-standing non-governmental human rights organizations as Memorial and the Moscow Helsinki Group, which have been operating in Russia for a long time, were not admitted to the state competition for the development of this report. Instead of them, only two structures were allowed - an advertising agency and a tailoring workshop. According to non-state human rights activists, the quality of the annual reports of the Public Chamber on human rights and the development of civil society is extremely low. Valery Borshchev, a representative of the Moscow Helsinki Group, called the reports of the Public Chamber "imitation" in 2016, noting that they had never been drawn up by leading human rights organizations.

The Secretary of the Public Chamber Alexander Brechalov said in November 2016 that the Public Chamber “never prepared a report on human rights” and noted that “there were no applications for participation from such organizations in any of the competitive procedures conducted by the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, as Memorial, Moscow Helsinki Group, Committee for Human Rights ”. Brechalov's successor, Valery Fadeev, admitted in June 2017 that a report on the state of civil society for the Public Chamber should have been prepared by a company that was engaged in sewing clothes, but noted that in the charter of this organization “there are dozens of other points, and this organization could well have been doing that work. , in which they won the tender ”.

Evaluations

Criticism

Scandals

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