State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that deputies have passed a law that expands the powers of the President of Russia to protect the country. Wrote about him about it telegraph channel.
“Additional powers are given to the President of the Russian Federation to protect our country and our citizens in case foreign structures take illegal decisions or take actions against the Russian Federation,” Volodin said.
In addition, according to the new amendments, a 5-year prison sentence is introduced in order to facilitate the execution of decisions of interstate organizations on criminal prosecution. We are talking about the persecution of Russian military personnel and volunteers, public officials.
Former State Duma accepted Amendments to the life sentence for treason. The amendments were adopted in article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Betrayal”.
Now, according to the law, for treason you can get a fine of up to 500 thousand rubles, as well as a prison sentence of up to 20 years.