The State Duma deputies at a meeting on April 8 adopted in the second and third readings a package of three laws tightening the Criminal Code and legislation on “foreign agents”, Kommersant writes. According to parliamentarians, these legislative initiatives are aimed at “ensuring the protection of sovereignty and preventing the intervention in the domestic policy of Russia.” The first law allows us to declare “foreign agents” of persons who assist foreign organizations “acting contrary to the interests of the Russian Federation”, and also involve citizens in the collection of military-technical information about Russia. types of crimes. Previously, correspondence courts were possible only by serious and especially serious crimes. Now the deputies have made an exception for some crimes of small and moderate severity. Such new compositions of crimes include “fakes” and “discrediting” of the Russian Army, calls for terrorism, extremism, violation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, mass riots, unreasoning aggressive war, rehabilitation of Nazism. Through the law, the law tightens the punishment for a number of anti -war accusations. In particular, the document provides for up to seven years in prison for “selfish assistance” to international organizations in which Russia is not involved. The punishment is also introduced for a period of up to five years in prison for “discrediting” the army of the Russian Federation and calls for sanctions against Russia made of self -interest or hiring. The authorities want to more (and tougher) to judge the left Russians and distribute even more labels of “foreign agents”. Who is threatening the next repressive initiatives of deputies? Disappointing spoiler: anyone (Tagstotranslate) News
