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In the future, property of citizens convicted of “fake news” about the Russian army, calls for extremism and the imposition of sanctions against the aggressor state can be confiscated. Changes to the Criminal Code are planned that will expand the criminal offense of confiscating assets. The deputies demand the punishment of crimes related not only to the discrediting of the Russian army, but also public calls and actions directed against national security, including all kinds of sabotage, as well as calls for the introduction of sanctions against Russia and “Rehabilitation of Russia”. Nazism”.
Russian courts tend to consider as “fake news” and “discrediting the army” any information about the invasion of Ukraine that does not correspond to the official propaganda of the Kremlin, especially about the attacks on civilian objects and the murder of Ukrainian citizens.
The hated State Duma member Vitaly Milonovs, who became famous for his years-long fight against non-traditional sexual relationships, said that the new law is necessary, first of all, to punish people who have left Russia, as the current penalties do not threaten those who are already outside the embrace of the loving Motherland. “The punishment for spreading false news about the Russian army and, in principle, discrediting our country is usually the payment of a certain fine, but the perpetrators usually live abroad,” he explained. Milonov called the bill on asset confiscation a “precautionary norm” and people accused of discrediting should be deprived of all rights to property, deposits and savings.
One of the authors of the bill, the chairman of the State Duma’s Security and Anti-Corruption Committee, Vasilijs Piskarjov, considers the planned punishment to be fair. “Why do I think it’s fair? Each of them had a choice – to act according to their conscience, to stay with the Motherland in a difficult moment, to be with the people, with our army, or to run away cowardly. And not just running away, but openly siding with the enemy,” he explained, emphasizing that Russian citizens who sided with the enemy deprived themselves of the opportunity to return to their homeland and keep their property.
Very soon after the invasion of Ukraine, on March 4, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law making spreading “fake news” about the occupying army punishable by up to 15 years in prison. In an effort to become a dictator and eliminate all criticism of the regime, the members of the State Duma very soon began to propose increasing punishments. Later, the status of inviolable “sacred cows” included not only Russian military personnel, but also all participants in “special operations,” including volunteers and infiltrators recruited in prisons.
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