to give regions the right to establish resort or tourist taxes on their own territories. the experiment ends this year. valentina matvienko instructed the senators to develop a law on the right of regions to introduce resort fees and ensure its adoption by the end of the year. the head of the upper chamber noted that funds received from tourists could be used for restoration and restoration of cultural monuments. experiments don't have to go on forever. we worked for a year and continue to accept it.

but this is world practice, convenient and fast acquiring knowledge skills online has become very popular, active demand gives rise to many offers for distance learning, but you can’t always be completely confident in the quality of the educational content provided. we will discuss the problem of reliability and regulation of such services with senator irina rukavishnikova, today she is a guest of our studio. irina valerievna, today anyone can organize courses and training on the internet. with the help of this, instruct, treat, teach how this is controlled activities, do these people pay taxes, and most importantly, who controls the quality of the services provided? well, i would divide this question into two parts: the first question is, do these people pay taxes, if this activity really brings them income, they are obliged to pay taxes, well, this is like a slightly different area, the area that you said is essential or meaningful, right?

the activities of bloggers, it really requires the close attention of the legislator now, because it also seems to us that there are significant problems here, the problem is connected precisely with what content and what message these teachers, there conventional psychologists, conventional doctors, convey to the population, especially if this content is aimed at minors, correct and competent consultations can only be individual, they can only be given...

about some of their methods, about their experience, and information that is positioned as educational, medical, recommendation content. let's talk about proven online services, for example, about the legal information portal in the law of the russian federation. i i know that the rostov region was one of the pioneers of this project. tell us how things are now, what information can a user get by accessing this portal? well, let's start with this. this pilot

project, which was implemented in ten constituent entities of the russian federation, including the rostov region took part, it began in december twenty-two, the first stage of this pilot project is approaching. towards completion, a decision is made on the need to expand it to all subjects russian federation and, accordingly, the launch of this portal in such a full-scale form , the task is to create a federal state information system that would be a single entry point and such a single information center of legal, reliable, verified information, and it is assumed that on this portal you can get not only access to current versions of regulatory legal acts, but also to receive legal advice, which, in general, has now been carried out in pilot mode for a year and a half. and on today, if you go to this portal, you can get a brief consultation online, and you can

make an appointment with a lawyer, a lawyer, or this will be a written response to your request, or an employee of the state law bureau or legal education institution will come out with you online mode. communication and will answer your questions virtually personally, more than 60 thousand consultations were provided in all entities that participate in this project. the operator of this portal is the ministry of justice of the russian federation, we hope that in in the near future, at least by the summer of this year, the state information system will be launched and all residents of all subjects of russia will be able to use it. well, continuing the legal theme.

they answered questions from the population in a hotline mode, well, in those territories where such a voting regime was used. a very interesting experience for future lawyers, of course, is the instant inclusion in such an online environment, in the digital environment. naturally, immersion in the problems that exist, the opportunity to provide help, and this project has now been expanded, now it is not called digital volunteers, volunteers in law, because in addition to issues of digital law and digital relations, of course, a fairly large number

of questions arise from our fellow citizens, to which lawyers, students, lawyers, graduates can give a qualified answer, of course there is no need to confuse. qualified legal assistance provided by lawyers who are already professional lawyers, but at some stage, when it is necessary to very quickly orient a person, to accept this or another solution, turn to a professional or maybe very quickly consult on what mechanisms are there to protect his rights, be it consumer protection or the same cyber scammers there, when they call, how to protect their rights? how to protect personal data, well, there are quite a lot of areas that young lawyers, future lawyers can answer very quickly and effectively. it is important to note that the implementation of this project by volunteers in law is carried out by an all-russian organization, a public organization, a lawyer’s association in russia,

since there are regional branches in almost all regions, in the near future we hope that the regions of russia will also join in the implementation of this initiative. the senators continue. develop measures to reduce the gray market for nicotine-containing products; counterfeit cigarettes and vaping liquids pose a great health risk, since their quality remains a big question. we talked with senator about the current situation in this market, about the control system for identifying illegal tobacco products alexey sinitsin. and from the new year , excise taxes on liquids for veps have doubled. manufacturers were previously wary of this measure and warned that it would be unprofitable for them, accordingly. the amount of illegal products will increase, in the end, what happened, has the quality of the product decreased, the quality of the product, what are the results? we had the opportunity to discuss with market representatives, with representatives of federal authorities the situation on the market now, and it should be noted that january 24 compared to january 23 showed real growth

collected excise taxes three times, but it must be said that since it has doubled, then in absolute volume this is a one and a half times increase, in general this is a good figure. according to market research, the share of illegal products is in this sector, this is liquid for electronic nicotine delivery systems account for about 90%. in this sense , this small abundance of the market does not have a decisive role in the actual conditions of turnover of goods, that is, the huge share of the illegal market forces the state to look for some measures that will allow this to stop the situation, we think it is important to strengthen the control role of the state in this area, we talked about this with representatives of rosalkogol-tobacco control with representatives of rospotrebnadzor, who have control functions, unfortunately, it must be said that today’s situation is for consumer protection. .. supervision is not optimal, that is, they have introduced a risk-oriented approach, and in order to respond to cases

that arise, well, firstly, these cases actually arise only in legal retail, the illegal market, it’s quite difficult for them to reach, this time, but to control legal retail, we are increasingly regulating it, controlling it more and more, illegal retail only benefits from this, but even to control the risks that arise in the systems monitoring, even for this purpose... they need to obtain additional approvals for their inspections from the prosecutor’s office, they cannot conduct sudden inspections, notify the inspected organizations 24 hours in advance, well, it’s clear what they will see on shelves in the audited organizations. we understand that today’s control system may not be fully effective; representatives of rosalkogol-tobacco control told us exactly the same thing, that there is a need to improve legislation regarding their control methods, and we will certainly do this. and ready for march 31st. the regulatory framework for tobacco regulation, were all the by-laws ready, what can be expected after

this date? well, in general, most of the by- laws that should have been adopted according to the results of the adoption of federal law 203, this is an industry law that takes a fresh look at the regulation of the industry, almost everything has been prepared, there are several acts that are at the stage of final approval, in fact, during the meeting we looked at these acts, of course one of the recommendations would be to speed up their acceptance, but it must be said that... ae rosalkogol-tobacco-control is actively conducting its activities, manufacturers are registered, those who will import raw materials are registered, uh, legal market is being specially registered, i think that these measures, as well as other measures taken in combination, will allow us to more intensively whiten the market, because we understand that in the segment of legal retail tobacco products directly through the traditional method of consumption, where nicotine is consumed, there is also enough high share... of the legal market, according to inpromtorg, according to the methodology they implement, this is about 13%

last year, 13%, this year 12.6%. well, we understand that this is still quite a lot. and cigarettes are included in a list of strategically important goods and resources, and, accordingly, responsibility for smuggling has become stricter. in this regard , is the number of criminal cases expected to increase and has the issue of so-called interrupted transit, one of the schemes for the illegal export of tobacco products, been resolved? well, yes, it must be said that the main scheme for the entry of illegal cigarettes into our market is the so -called interrupted transit, this is the import of tobacco products from our neighboring states of the eurasian economic union, the inclusion of tobacco products in the list of strategically important goods, such as times will allow such actions as smuggling to be classified. the government decree classifying tobacco products as a strategic product will come into force on april 1 of this year, and we should ideally see a lot of criminal cases in the near future...

and investigate them in this case, which will help the federal customs service and investigators of the federal security service to bring such cases before criminal prosecution, thereby reducing the volume of illegal imports. and as for the initiative to give the regions powers to identification of illegal products, we have already discussed this topic, but what is the relationship to it, will this initiative be implemented to what extent? well, all experts clearly speak positively about this initiative, we understand that it was preceded by a long period of normalization. situation on the alcohol market, and there it was the transfer of powers to the regions along with

funds and part of the excise taxes that made it possible to largely solve this problem, and many experts refer to the fact that they support the position transferring part of the powers to the regions along with part of the excise taxes, and we even propose this as an experiment and transfer not just a share in the excise taxes that the region collects, but precisely in the form of a difference, that is, in the form of an increase in the volume of collection, but unfortunately key ministries are still against , and the ministry of finance, the ministry of economic development, they believe that such a method of control as duplicating the functions of federal and regional bodies will not correspond to the modern model of control that is being built. v governmentally, we hope that the dialogue will continue, and over time we will convince our colleagues that this is an effective way. the issue of producing domestic equipment for oil refineries is one of the most important for ensuring the technological sovereignty of our country. how the oil and gas industry is switching to russian technologies today, why sanctions have become a catalyst for import substitution. all the details are in the report of our special

correspondent svetlana temerbulatova. nitrogen-air ramps, transport tank containers. genetic pumping units, all this is used for the extraction and transportation of liquefied natural gas, the names of the equipment are complex, and the design process itself is no less difficult, first , designers develop new parts at their desks, then directly at the production site, craftsmen embody them into the finished product. now we are developing a high-power nitrogen expander unit of 20 megawatts, our own russian one, that is, there are no analogues of such units. prepared a prototype, we tested it successfully, and now we are already completing and assembling it. this is how the plant in neftyugansk solves the problem of ensuring the sovereignty of the fuel and energy complex; one of the key areas of the company’s activities is import substitution. here they produce domestic spare parts for compressor units, top drive gearboxes, hydraulic wrenches, and the intelligence and material are ours. metal is purchased from

metallurgical plants of the russian federation at different points. pipes, rentals too. russian production, shut-off valves and flanges, everything is also made in russia, there is practically nothing imported, even that cable harness, and there is power control, everything is also made in russia, even before the sanctions, the plant expanded the range of products, starting the production of reactive semi-trailers, they were made lightweight from aluminum alloys, which made it possible to increase capacity by one and a half to 2 tons without changing the total weight. this huge tank is called a reagent mobile fuel refueling complex. essentially, this is a gas station on wheels, it is used in field conditions, where you can refuel a car that runs on liquefied natural gas. hydrocarbon production, being a significant source of revenue for the russian budget, became one of the main targets that western countries aimed at with their sanctions, but the embargo on the supply of equipment and technologies for oil production and the production of

liquefied natural gas to russia only accelerated the process of import substitution. this problem did not start today, not yesterday. this all started in 2014 after the crimean spring, when first the european union, then the united states, carried out the punks. the beginning of the start of these sanctions, we then had 100% of almost foreign equipment, this is a software program, 70% was foreign oil and gas equipment, today for a second, we already have almost 70% of russian equipment, almost 100% of russian software, stable, it works russian federation, regardless of any sanctions. logical restrictions, russian companies have focused their efforts on those areas where the groundwork for replacing critically important samples has already been created imported equipment, components and consumables. a workshop for the production of cables for the oil and gas industry has been launched in the moscow region. by implementing this large-scale project, the company plans to reduce dependence on imports and replace foreign products. if we take the funds from the beginning

of the twenty-third year, we probably had a prevalence of imported cables somewhere in the region of 20-30%, namely for... gas, the launch of our production will allow us to go even further, well , five percent lower, for us exactly the same lines, we have the same specialists, we the same materials, i think that by the end of the twenty-fifth year we will easily reach the level of 2-3% for imported stones. the new workshop will produce heating cables, communication and control cables, as well as the most science-intensive geophysical cables being developed, which are used for exploring oil wells. and these cables are very specific, the fact is that the equipment that is lowered into the well has a certain weight. the depth reaches up to 7 km, and when calculating this cable, it is necessary to take into account that the cable supports itself, its weight and also the device that hangs on it. the total investment in new production exceeded 530 million rubles. 262 of them were provided by the industrial development fund in the form of a soft loan under the development project program. these funds were used to purchase

high-tech equipment. this is equipment for twisting insulated cores into the so-called core of the future. cable due to the rotation of the coils, in this case there are five copper conductors, they are automatically twisted into such a single bundle, after which they are already wrapped with fastening tape. the sanction pressure of western countries and the restriction of cooperation with foreign partners did not stop the implementation of large projects. in recent years, companies, on the contrary , have significantly increased the share of domestic equipment and continue to create new competitive technologies. svetlana temerbulatova, natalya kalysheva, alexander shedevr and andrey litvin. plans to adjust the program for subsidizing passenger air transportation. together with the federal air transport agency and the ministry of transport, the senators discussed the current situation and changes in existing

air transport subsidy programs. senator alexander trembitsky told us about the main tasks. in the context of declining funding, the most important task here is to maintain the volume of subsidies, and of course, if possible, increase this volume. there are three standard programs on these. the federal air transport agency, which is currently subsidized, is provided for about 25 billion rubles in the current twenty-fourth year. looking in retrospect, there is an annual decline, our main task now is to stop this decline; it is possible to highlight for the current year from federal budget additional funds for appropriate subsidies. at the moment, there will be no innovations of any kind for the consumer, for airline passengers, if we talk about quantity. people who use subsidized tickets, last year their figure was close to 7 million, which tells us that this measure is quite popular, and moreover,

the subsidy is chosen in full, there are no flights that are underfilled, like once again in terms of tickets sold with subsidies. thanks to subsidized by air transportation, russians can get to loved ones on the other side of the country, travel to the most beautiful places in russia , or go on business to another city at a favorable price. read more about federal programs in our section. marina pavlova will tell you who can get tickets at a reduced rate and what nuances are important to consider when purchasing them. subsidized air tickets are sold at special discounted fares, usually half the price of standard economy. the cost is reduced due to the state, which allocates preferential prices every year. tickets funds from the budget. this year , transportation subsidies under three federal programs continued. a program aimed at developing regional transportation. a program to ensure accessibility of transportation for certain categories of citizens and a program to subsidize transportation on socially significant routes in the far eastern

federal district. in total, this year the federal air transport agency lists 397 subsidized destinations. the rights to preferential transportation are awarded to airlines that pass a competitive selection process. now there are 25 of them. some any russian can buy tickets at a reduced price. this year, under the regional subsidy program. 270 directions are available. the only routes for these flights bypass moscow; such tickets are not marked on airline websites, only the prices differ. to find out when and where you can go with subsidized tickets, go to the website of the federal air transport agency, it shows the dates and airline directions operating flights to each city. some tickets at reduced rates are available only to beneficiaries, to whom include passengers under 23 years of age, women over 55 and men over 60 years old, members of large families,

the eastern federal district, in some directions we even see an expansion of what is called the volume of air traffic, for example, i represent the magadan

region, and if the winter schedule we have four direct flights per week, then last year in the summer during the high season, as they say, we had nine flights per week, for the current year twenty-four the schedule is already planned. compiled slots for 12 flights per week in high season in the direction of moscow, magadan, moscow. as part of federal subsidy programs , it is planned to transport about 4 million russians this year. airplane tickets at discounted rates can be purchased on airline websites, in the app or in the office. for detailed conditions , check the carriers' websites. next week the federation council will discuss a proposal to ensure balance. regional budgets taking into account their characteristics. there will be a meeting of chairmen of committees on international affairs of parliaments of the brix countries. a meeting of the council of the eurasian women's

forum will take place. see you in a week, see you on the senate program.

let's return to the situation in orsk, where the dam broke, in the flood zone, more than 400 houses of almost 11,000 people are trapped there, such footage from the flooded... city is now appearing online, they show that the water is rising, the streets are already under it, fortunately, there were no casualties, residents of two districts of the city were urgently evacuated, 12 temporary points are currently in readiness accommodation, the ministry of emergency situations reported this, about 40 people have already been accommodated in them, 17 of them are children, the majority are going to relatives and friends. according to the head.