Correspondent in Moscow
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The Russian government continues to ramp up a legal arsenal designed to suppress the few voices that speak out publicly against the war in Ukraine. Last week, the Duma deputies adopted in the second reading the changes of up to 15 years of imprisonment (compared to the previous 5 years), which can be punished for the expressions “discrediting” the Russian forces involved in the “special military operation”. The changes, which are still under legislative debate but are not in doubt, also impose sanctions for criticism of Russian “volunteers”, a term that specifically refers to the mercenaries of the Wagner paramilitary group, which is in the Battle of Bakhmut in the Donbass. : . Among these militiamen are quite a number of prisoners, often heavily convicted, who were recruited from prisons on a six-month contract at the front, with the promise of amnesty… if they returned alive…
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Source: Le Figaro
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