Russian lower house to hold pension reform hearings
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E-mail Xinhua, August 3, 2018
Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament, will interrupt its summer holidays to hold "large scale" hearings on a pension reform bill on Aug. 21, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said Friday.
"Given the importance of this bill, it would be right to discuss it thoroughly before the autumn session," he said in a statement.
Members of the government, representatives of the legislative and executive authorities of the Russian regions and republics, civil society institutions and experts are also expected to take part in the hearings.
The State Duma on July 19 passed the pension reform bill in the first reading to raise the retirement age to 65 from 60 for men by 2028 and to 63 from 55 for women by 2034.
The bill has to be passed in three readings by the State Duma, then approved by the upper house and signed into law by President Vladimir Putin.
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