Overview

• Lawmakers approved a resolution at Thursday’s plenary session confirming Izotova to the deputy chair post.
• President Vladimir Putin had submitted Izotova’s candidacy to the chamber, and the Duma’s control committee backed the choice beforehand.
• The law sets six-year terms for the position and bars holding it for more than two consecutive terms, with Izotova’s prior term ending on September 24.
• The Duma also moved to the second reading of a bill tightening criminal liability for registered foreign agents by lowering the threshold to a single prior administrative offense.
• Amendments proposed for the second reading would allow prosecution based on a prior conviction under the same article, and a separate bill on free vocational training for ninth-graders who failed state exams was taken up in a first reading with profession lists to be set by regions.