Members of the State Duma proposed to discuss the creation of a model law on Cities of Labor Valour within the framework of the IPA CIS

The Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin announced that proposal, reacting to the suggestion of the head of the LDPR faction Vladimir Zhirinovskii, who said that the title "City of Labor Valour" may also be given to cities that were formerly part of the USSR
Plenary meeting Zhirinovskii

”As part of the harmonization of legislation and the formation of model laws, we can present our draft model law [on the title ‘City of Labor Valour’] to our colleagues for further consideration and adoption, including the member-states of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly,“ said the Chairman of the State Duma at the plenary session on February 20.

This issue may also be raised at the meeting of the President of the Russian Federation with the leaders of the factions.

”This is an interesting proposal, taking into account that, first of all, we base our assessment on the contribution of people who lived in different cities,“ stressed Viacheslav Volodin Volodin Vyacheslav Victorovich 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)
, adding that ”all the peoples of the USSR and cities contributed [to the Victory].“

The head of the ”United Russia“ faction, Sergei Neverov Neverov Sergey Ivanovich Neverov
Sergey Ivanovich
, in turn, said that this issue was discussed during the meeting of the delegation of the State Duma with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. ”There was a request for the opportunity to include cities that were part of the USSR, which citizens also had been working a lot,“ he said, adding that this issue, for example, could be reflected in the interstate agreements.