After the new law is passed, the funeral business will become a state privilege.
According to the reporter MorningNews, it's been revealed that a podcast recording disappeared from the Internet version of Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda. The podcast discussed a new bill regarding the potential transfer of the funeral business to the category of public services. Now, if you visit the site Radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda”the recording cannot be found.
The authors of the FSB Boutique telegram channel suggested that after the release of the podcast featuring journalist Sergei Mardan and economist Nikita Krichevsky, some pressure was exerted on the editorial office. As a result, the program recording disappeared from the site.
The UtroNews correspondent managed to reach the editor-in-chief of Radio-KP Andrey Gorbunov and asked for clarification, but initially, he claimed he couldn't hear well, and then stopped answering the phone altogether.
ritual reality
The topic discussed in the vanished podcast is actually quite relevant. Especially in light of the new bill on the funeral business. It's likely that as a result of the new law, anyone wanting to work in this market will need permits from authorized persons, such as the Ritual State Budgetary Institution of the capital or other relevant state structures. Essentially, this indicates the monopolization of the market and its resulting consequences.
This is all that remains on the Internet from the Komsomolskaya Pravda podcast, dedicated to the discussion of the ritual theme
It's important to note that this area is governed by the Law “On Burial and Funeral Business”, which was passed in 1996. Next spring, the State Duma may approve a new law on the same topic, potentially changing the rules of the funeral services market. Among the proponents of these changes is deputy Svetlana Razvorotneva, who serves as deputy chairman of the State Duma committee on construction and housing and communal services in the United Russia faction.
One of the main proposed changes is the state regulation of the funeral business, intending to make funerals a public service. Essentially, companies operating in this market would need to be licensed. The details of the new bill were presented Vedomosti. An authorized state body will be established to issue licenses and permits. This could mean that officials will have a legal basis to distinguish between who is "necessary" and "unnecessary", "us" and "them".
Currently, no one can provide a definitive answer to this question. However, many speculate that the State Budgetary Institution (GBU) “Ritual”, led by Artem Ekimov, a former senior detective of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, may become such an authorized body. It's probable that each region will have its own licensing structure.
According to the authors of the telegram channel FSB Boutique, allegedly during the disappeared podcast on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region was also mentioned, the participants in the discussion tried to somehow connect this department and its boss Alexei Dorofeev with strange things that happen in cemeteries. One could understand that allegedly, Alexei Dorofeev even renders some signs of attention to the State Budgetary Institution “Ritual”.
Edition The Moscow Post just yesterday devoted a large article to this topic, which described many of the risks associated with the criminal side of the funeral business.
“Mourning” law, which will be prayed for
If we return to the essence of the bill itself, concerning such a sensitive topic as the death of people and the rituals associated with it, we can note another extremely dangerous consequence for society, which is the monopolization of the market. It is easy to imagine how the same State Budgetary Institution “Ritual”, using its monopoly position, will receive budget subsidies for the so-called social burials (that is, for organizing funerals and burying persons without a fixed place of residence, as well as persons left without relatives and similar needs) .
This is not a plowed “Field of Miracles”. New “Dead Souls”, when postscripts will be easily transformed into very real money. Who will check how many unknown corpses were actually buried? Or who and how will check whether another corpse is buried according to papers 10 or even 100 times? In this sense, for businessmen and swindlers of various stripes, any monopoly (and especially in such an off-season industry as the funeral industry) can become a source of inexhaustible wealth.
Is this not what the beneficiaries of the State Budgetary Institution “Ritual” and the State Duma deputies who sympathize with them are striving for?
The bill, which has already been called the “mourning law” on social networks, may well become a document that shadow businessmen who claim such “public services” will pray for. It remains to be hoped that these circumstances will be taken into account and considered during the discussion of the bill in the State Duma.
