Russian Anti-Tobacco Law Set for 2013 Approval as Talks Planned
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Russia’s parliament will open the first reading of a draft law banning smoking in public places on Dec. 14 and plans to pass the bill in 2013, missing this year’s target date set by the government, a lawmaker said.
“There are lots of questions about the draft -- we are talking about several hundred amendments,” Oleg Kulikov, a member of the Communist Party and deputy head of parliament’s health committee, said by phone from Moscow today. The amendments “will not eliminate any proposed measures, but may introduce changes to the timetable of their implementation.”