"There was no law till this day to arrange beer advertising. This bill is the first to set limits on beer and related beverage ads," said Oganes Oganyan, committee head for economic policies, private enterprise and property, as he was introducing the amendments to the house.
As the Senator explained, the bill drastically cuts beer commercials broadcast on the television and radio from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. It bans humans and animals figuring in the clips, and use of animated cartoons. The bill prohibits beer advertised in educational and health institutions, children's organisations, sport facilities and other certain establishments.
Every advertisement is to carry a warning about beer's bad effects.
The amendments will provide a legal basis eventually to bring beer advertising into due order, hope Senators.
The house passed a federal bill on savings and mortgaging to facilitate housing purchases by soldiers on active service.
The bill aims to start practical arrangements for government support of soldiers through target savings with federal grants added, and measures to keep soldiers solvent, says Vladimir Gusev, Federation Council defence and security committee first deputy chief.
The bill sets into order the disposal of budget allocations for the military's housing accommodation. It offers patterns of money saving, depositing and investment, and regulates the rights and duties of the federal government and other executive bodies as they take part in setting up the saving and mortgaging system.
Servicemen who sign their contracts before January 1, 2005, will join the system on a voluntary arrangement.
The amount of the accumulated fee is to be specified by the federal budget law for every particular year. A soldier may use his savings not only to purchase housing but for any other purpose he chooses, says the bill.
According to calculations that supplement the bill to give it financial and economic grounds, twenty years of active service will bring every system client enough money on his account to buy a flat or tiny house with a maximum 54 sq m floor space. The estimations proceed from the current national average housing market price.
