In Volodin's words, the Duma Council on Monday took the decision to invite the authors of the draft to Duma factions and deputy associations.
He is sure that the need for such a meeting is due to the many questions stockpiled on this matter. "We would like to hear from the authors - the cabinet - what they see as the solution of disputable questions, now in discussion in society," Volodin stressed.
The draft was prepared by the cabinet and adopted by the State Duma in the first reading on March 31. It was actually unanimously voted for by the majority members of the Duma - the United Russia party faction, of which Volodin is a member.
Other factions and parliamentary groups, including communists, liberal democrats and the right-wingers, are flatly against the law.
Vladimir Putin said that the meetings and rallies draft should not lead to limiting civil freedoms.
"It is an obvious fact. I hope deputies will proceed from that," the Russian president said at the meeting with the State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov.
The speaker assured the president that deputies will "amend" the draft, which bans the holding of rallies in front of the presidential residence, buildings of organs of state power, diplomatic missions, hospitals, schools, cultural centers and sports facilities, churches and mosques, or just where rallies are usually held.
