PRESS: Senator Klishas revokes bill legalizing alcohol online sale

MOSCOW, Jul 13 (PRIME) -- Andrei Klishas, head of the constitutional committee of the Russian parliament’s upper house Federation Council, has revoked the bill submitted to the government on legalization of online sale of alcohol, business daily Vedomosti reported on Thursday.

A representative of the office of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko, to whom the senator addressed the document, told the daily that Klishas withdrew the bill for its deliberation on June 19.

The bill was about the right to sell alcohol online with delivery for the companies licensed to purchase, store, and deliver alcohol products and/or licensed to sell it upon the condition of putting the seller’s website on the special register.

A person from an industry association said the senator revoked the document after observations by the Finance Ministry.

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