The founder of the private military company Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, sent a letter to the Head of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin with a request to amend the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and to protect the volunteers who participated in the special operation, including the previous ones. was convicted.
“I urge you to urgently work on the introduction of article 280.5 “On discrediting fighters, volunteers, including ex-convicts” to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which prohibits public actions aimed at discrediting volunteers, including ex-convicts. while using them to protect the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens,” the letter states.
Prigozhin stressed that a large number of volunteers, including those previously convicted, participated in the special operation, adequately performing their combat duties and ensuring the security of the state, while “total discredit” individual media and bloggers.
The Wagner PMC founder has proposed changes to the law that would ban “any publication and criticism of a negative nature” by SVO participants, as well as prison sentence-related information about past crimes of ex-convicts participating in a special operation. up to five years.
In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed it. live Criminal sanctions and calls for sanctions for fraud against the RF Armed Forces.
Source: Gazeta
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