The Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia Union
State began its work in Moscow.
Council members discussed the agenda of the plenary session of the 55th session of the Parliamentary Assembly. Issues of abolition of roaming in the Union State and the draft budget of the Union State
for 2019 are on the agenda.
Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia Union
State, Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin
Vyacheslav Victorovich
The Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the eighth convocation. Elected in single mandate constituency № 163 (Saratov constituency - Saratov Oblast)
noted that the issue of abolition of roaming is particularly relevant for those
who live in the border regions.
On December 19, the State Duma adopted a law on abolition of national roaming in Russia. From June 1, 2019, single tariffs will be applied as payment for communication services regardless of the region where a customer is at the current moment. “This law will allow people, moving to another region, to save money when they talk with their relatives, friends and colleagues on the phone,” Viacheslav Volodin commented on it earlier. Today, on December 21, the law has been approved by the Federation Council.
On December 22, the so-called “government hour” will be held for the first time at the plenary session of the 55th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia Union State. This is a new format of work of the Union State parliamentarians. The topic of “the government hour” with participation of Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Konstantin Noskov and the Minister of Science and Higher Education Mikhail Kotyukov is creation and further functioning of the unified scientific and technological space of the Union State and prospects of abolition of roaming on the territory of the Union State.
