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Road Safety Russia NGO takes part in Frankfurt Motor Show

10 September 2013

All motorists are eagerly awaiting for the Frankfurt Motor Show -2013. One of the biggest international car shows will be opened on September12. Inconnection with this event the Road Safety Russia NGO is preparing a special project which collects the most important innovations in the field of car safety. Environmental protection and fuel efficient cars and other vital items for environmental safety are among the basic topics of the latest motor shows. This time the organizers will get on with this subject to raise it to the absolute. The keynote of the Frankfurt Motor Show is a live issue forRussiaas well for the production of green cars in...

Sixfold increase in fine for failing to use a child restraint when transporting a child

10 July 2013

In St Petersburg today, at the final meeting of its spring session, the Federation Council approved amendments to the Law on Road Safety. The amendments include the introduction of a higher penalty for failing to use a child restraint when transporting a child under the age of 12. The fine is to be increased to 3000 roubles. Prior to this, the NGO Road Safety Russia, together with the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre, had surveyed Russians to ascertain their views on child safety in cars. More than a third of respondents (37%) supported the idea of increasing the fine for non-use of child restraints to 5000 roubles. More than half of...

Road Safety Russia is certain that concerted action can save millions of lives.

05 April 2013

Today, on the second day of the Global Meeting of NGOs for Road Safety, Anastasia Bakhmutova and Alexander Revskiy from Road Safety Russia presented a paper on “The Russian Experience of Road Safety Public Awareness Campaigns”. They spoke about the nature of their organisation, the themes which it has been addressing recently, and its plans for the immediate future. The Road Safety Russia representatives informed their audience that in the last few years their organisation had campaigned against drunk driving (“Had a Drink? Don’t Start Up!”) and speeding (“No Rush”), advocated the rights of...

Results of Russian child safety programme presented at WHO meeting

27 March 2013

The seventh meeting of the Advisory Board for the Road Safety in 10 Countries Project (RS10) was held in Moscow on 27 March. Several pertinent issues were on the agenda: the WHO global report (2013), the federal programme “Improving Road Safety in 2013-2020”, the results of implementation of the RS10 project and proposals for 2013, and the results of social advertising aimed at improving road safety. The following were among the invited guests and WHO experts in attendance: the president of the NGO Road Safety Russia, Natalia Agre; the WHO Special Representative to the Russian Federation, Dr Luigi Migliorini; the head of...