On 28 December, Russian ruler Vladimir Putin signed a collection of legal guidelines that toughened penalties for armed insurrection and crimes in opposition to army service and accepted a brand new technique to counter extremism, which lists the elimination of threats emanating from Ukraine as one in all its principal duties.
Supply: Russian state company TASS, Medusa, Centre for Countering Disinformation on the Nationwide Safety and Defence Council of Ukraine
Particulars: One of many signed legal guidelines toughens the punishment for armed insurrection as much as life imprisonment. The decrease restrict of the sentence for insurrection has elevated from 15 to twenty years. The identical legislation excludes the appropriate to parole for these sentenced to life for terrorism and insurrection. It additionally introduces a sentence of as much as 15 years for foreigners for "aiding the enemy".
The Prison Code of the Russian Federation was additionally amended to make members of "volunteer formations" answerable for disobeying orders, resisting a superior, leaving a unit or place of service with out permission, desertion, voluntary give up and different crimes dedicated by the army.
One other legislation in Russia has additionally expanded the record of grounds for together with folks within the record of extremists.
The Russian Federal Service for Monetary Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring) additionally now has entry to info on the accounts of residents who financially assist "extremism and extremists".
Putin additionally signed a legislation renaming the town of Rostov as Rostov Velikii (Rostov the Nice)
As well as, Putin accepted a new technique for countering extremism. The technique states that the Russian Federation considers one of many principal duties within the struggle in opposition to extremism to be "the elimination of the supply of threats emanating from the territory of Ukraine".
It additionally states that Russia will take measures for the "socio-cultural integration" of the occupied territories of Ukraine.
Involvement in uncoordinated protest actions is known as within the technique as one of many methods to destabilise Russia and unfold extremism. The Russian Federation considers "initiating color revolutions, falsifying historical past, and terrorism" to be extremist threats.
In response to the textual content, "extremists" are intensifying the nationwide disaster by propagating the notion of "decolonisation" of the Russian Federation. It’s deliberate to vigorously propagate the notions of the "historic unity of the peoples of the Russian Federation" as a part of the struggle in opposition to "extremism".
In response to the Heart for Countering Disinformation at Ukraine's Nationwide Safety and Defence Council, Putin's signing of legal guidelines aimed toward tightening inside management is an try and protect the federal government from new risks reminiscent of Yevgeny Prigozhin's march on Moscow.
"The adoption and signing of those legal guidelines confirms that the Kremlin is more and more afraid of inside threats and is making an attempt to guard itself from them by legislation. Nonetheless, this stress will eventually result in the destabilisation of the home political scenario and, finally, the autumn of the Putin regime," the Heart for Countering Disinformation mentioned in a press release.
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