In response to the publication in the US of a list of officials and businessmen close to the Kremlin, the Federation Council drafted a bill on the protection of Russian state sovereignty. It refers to the inadmissibility of interference in the country's domestic policy. Experts see a direct link between this initiative and the publication of the "Kremlin report", although the senators deny this. According to the author of the draft law, Senator Lyudmila Bokova, the appearance of the document is justified by the need to introduce the concept of "interference in sovereignty". In February, a meeting of the Interim Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty should be held, where various wordings of this term will be proposed. Most likely, as a result, it will not be a separate law, but amendments to the current legislation, which will be formulated based on existing precedents, the "Newspaper. RU". So far, the following wording has been adopted as a working word:.

"Foreign interference in internal affairs is understood not to be based on the general principles of international law and international treaties, the activities of foreign states, legal entities and individuals, their associations, aimed at changing the foundations of the constitutional order, territorial integrity, composition and structure of state and municipal authorities". In Sovfed they say that the "Kremlin report" and the draft law on the protection of state sovereignty are not related to each other.

Like, this idea was discussed last year, and then the concept of sovereignty in the Constitution of the Russian Federation is fixed, and about his defense there is not said a word. "The situation with the law on media-inoagents was a point story. There is no question of any mirror measures at this stage, "said a source familiar with the work of the commission. Experts, however, do not doubt that we are talking about the immediate reaction of the upper house to the output of the "Kremlin report". But they point out that in such steps there is no need. The concepts of the sovereignty enshrined in the Constitution are quite enough, believes Gleb Kuznetsov, a member of the board of directors of the Institute of Social Research (EISI), close to the Kremlin,. "It seems to me that here all the same we are talking about the eternal administrative heat in logic:" everyone somehow answered, and we should ". But while I do not see what can really be achieved by this. Russia is already a sovereign state. Just active and indifferent citizens want to do something, "the political scientist said. The law on sovereignty already exists and he is called the" Constitution of the Russian Federation, "the head of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy Fyodor Lukyanov agrees with Kuznetsov. According to him, if you really want retaliatory measures, it's better to do without "loud words", but to take "concrete and applied measures", as in the case of the law on media - foreign agents. A truly effective response to the "Kremlin report" of Russia will be difficult. You can print a list of US officials up to the level of deputy minister and attach to him the American list of Forbes, but it will be more "political trolling". "Unlike the United States, Russia is not a major operator of the international financial system," Lukyanov said, and therefore the persons listed in the Russian response list will hardly suffer any damage. Now, any response to the report will be rather a PR-action, believes political scientist Vyacheslav Smirnov. According to him, in the Russian people, sanctions are taken positively - it turns out that those who fall under them are working for the "good of Russia". The Kremlin report, which included more than 200 high-ranking officials and prominent Russian entrepreneurs, including almost the entire government led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, was prepared in the framework of the law adopted last August on "Countering America's opponents through sanctions".

By itself, getting on the list does not mean that sanctions will be imposed against its defendants, but potentially such a danger is. According to observers, the publication of the report just before the start of the active phase of the presidential campaign in Russia should be regarded as an attempt to influence the internal political processes. It's not about changing the political regime, but about a potential attempt to adjust the course of the Kremlin, which Washington does not like.