{"id":146889,"date":"2025-07-15T18:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/146889\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"russian-mps-vote-to-allow-belarusians-to-participate-in-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/146889\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian MPs vote to allow Belarusians to participate in local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>July 15, <em>Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Russia\u2019s Duma has approved a bill to allow Belarusian permanent residence holders in Russia to vote and run in local elections, its press office reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is an important step, which will allow nationals of both states to participate more actively in solving local issues that concern them as residents,\u201d it quoted Duma\u2019s Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The amendment to an agreement on equal rights of citizens was deigned to further strengthen integration and cooperation between Belarus and Russia, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move balances existing regulations, as Belarusian laws allow Russians to participate in local elections in Belarus. Last year, more than 95,000 Russian citizens were included on the voter lists for local elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Integration of Belarus and Russia dates back to 2000 when the Union State treaty entered into force after ratification by the parliaments of the two countries. The deal is of unlimited duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Russia launched an upgrade of the Union State to bind the two countries together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November 2021, Minsk and Moscow signed 28 Union State programs focusing on macroeconomic, industrial and agricultural policies, tax and customs harmonization and a common energy market, which reportedly were implemented by 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka and Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a security guarantees deal that provides for defending the Union State territory and border with \u201call available forces and means,\u201d including the use of Russian tactical nuclear weapons stationed in Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, Pozirk. Russia\u2019s Duma has approved a bill to allow Belarusian permanent residence holders in Russia to vote and run in local elections, its press office reports. \u201cThis is an important step, which will allow nationals of both states to participate more actively in solving local issues that concern them as residents,\u201d it quoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[14],"class_list":["post-146889","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Russian MPs vote to allow Belarusians to participate in local elections | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 15, Pozirk. 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