Duma deputy speaker: House ready to turn blogging into profession

MOSCOW, Dec 11 (PRIME) -- The Russian parliament’s lower house State Duma is ready to draft legislative solutions to regulate blogging, Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoi said on Monday at a meeting devoted to bloggers’ activities.

“It is crucial that all these activities will get their OKVED (the national classifier of economic activities), it is important that various authorities, including different political forces suggest bloggers unite into all sorts of associations,” Tolstoi said.

He said that every blogger has his own interests and “a set of measures” that should be elaborated in teamwork with the lawmakers.

“It may require certain legislative solutions at the federal level. I can assure you that we are ready for it,” Tolstoi said.

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