"Dry Law" may cancel this year, the newspaper Week Arguments referring to its source in the State Duma.Duma's Committee on Transport has already begun to develop appropriate amendments to the Law On Road Traffic Safety and the Code of Administrative Offences, which will increase the rate of the maximum permissible level of alcohol in the driver's blood to 0,2 - 0,3 ppm.
"Our legislation must be brought into line with international requirements. Thus, in the Vienna Convention clearly indicated that the natural rate of ethanol content in the blood can reach 0.2 ppm. Now in the Russian courts are very much disagree with the claims of deprivation of rights for those violations. Drivers win lawsuits, "- said the source publication. He also said that the "zero rule" leads to a rise in corruption on the roads.
However, these amendments have not yet received the approval of higher authorities. In addition, they must be consistent with the government or the presidential administration. Although the initiator of the introduction of "dry law" for drivers performed the country's president, Dmitry Medvedev, analysts note that in an election year, these amendments may be adopted.
