The Unseen Assembly: Russia’s Final Blackout on Parliamentary Transparency

The absence of an official end date for this ban suggests that it may become a permanent fixture of Russian political life. While some sources speculate it might be lifted after the September elections, the history of "temporary" restrictions in Russia suggests otherwise. Once a tool of transparency is removed, it is rarely returned. The precedent has now been set: if a politician is embarrassed by their own behavior, the solution is not to change the behavior, but to ban the record of it. This logic creates a feedback loop of unaccountability that eventually erodes the very legitimacy the ban was supposedly designed to protect.