A new bill to address denial of genocide during the Great Patriotic War is set for submission to the Russian State Duma. The report from a major newspaper outlines the plan and links to the official document.
The publication states that the bill will be presented to the State Duma on February 20. The report underscores that a set of similar cases has already been identified by courts across multiple regions since 2020, including the metropolitan area, Sevastopol, and the regions of Krasnodar, Stavropol, Novgorod, Pskov, Oryol, Bryansk, Leningrad, Belgorod, Voronezh, Smolensk, and Moscow.
Earlier in February, sources indicated that the Kursk Regional Court reached a decision in a case involving crimes attributed to Nazi forces and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War. The court acknowledged these acts as genocide and noted that the proceedings were initiated on behalf of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. Official statements from the project Without Limitation Statute confirmed that the Nazi invaders in the Kursk region between 1941 and 1943 committed actions intended to exterminate local populations as part of a plan to colonize the area.
In related developments, Minsk has recently featured school materials describing the genocide of the Belarusian people. Analysts emphasize that the ongoing legislative effort aims to clarify accountability for denial of genocide and to bolster recognition of historical crimes across regions and institutions.