| On October 6 the Duma Council intends to discuss the need
to restore the institute of parliamentary investigation. Two statements
on the need to give a new legal and political
assessment to the tragic events of September-October 1993 will also
be examined as part of this issue. One statement was submitted by deputies
Dmitri Rogozin and Sergei Glazyev, while the other was submitted by the YABLOKO faction.
"We believe that these events require an additional investigation
into all the circumstances surrounding these developments and punishment
of the guilty. We should restore the true picture of events, the true number of casualties, the true role of the statesmen
and political figures who took part in the route of the Russian parliament,"
believes Rogozin. The initiators of the draft statement consider it necessary
to request that the prosecutor-general's office launch a repeated investigation,
while the Duma should form a special commission. Rogozin and Glazyev also
suggested that the government examine the possibility of paying material
compensation to the families of those killed during those days and make
October 4 the Day of the Memory of the Defenders of the Constitution (this
decision was passed through the previous Duma but was blocked by the previous
Federation Council).
The investigation needs to be resumed for one simple reason - the Duma
special commission created in 1998, as it follows from the texts of the
statement, failed to bring the case to the end. The current Duma and Federation Council are devoid of any elements
of control over the authorities. The restoration of such a commission
is also a very good pretext for restoring the institute of parliamentary
investigations as such.
"To enable the mechanism of authorities' responsibility to start
operating at full capacity, we should expand the rights of parliamentary
control," believes Glazyev. However, on the eve of elections, the
Duma will hardly risk stirring up the past, the more as not all faction
leaders showed up at the memorial functions held in front of the White
House. "Their own conscience must help the deputies make the right
decision," believes Glazyev.
See also:
The State Duma
of the RF will discuss the draft statement on the events of 1993 prepared
by deputies from the YABLOKO faction. RIA Oreanda. October 6, 2003
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