INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
New legislation that punishes organization, financing and recruitment for acts of sabotage with stiff sentences of up to life imprisonment
was approved by Russia's State Duma in its first reading on Wednesday, state-owned news agency RIA reported.The legislation, which
supplements an existing law with three new articles, mandates severe punishments including life imprisonment for anyone forming a group for
the purpose of commiting sabotage
ruling United Russia party and one of the bill's authors, along with the leaders of each of the other factions in the Duma and a total of
380 of the chamber's 450 total deputies."Given that the Russian Federation is conducting a special military operation and at the same time
accepts refugees and remains open to the entry and exit of foreign nationals, the adoption of the bill is a fundamentally important step
24, there have been regular reports of explosions at ammunition depots and damage caused to railway tracks, some of which the Russian
authorities have blamed on saboteurs.The reading is the first of the three required for legislation in the lower house of parliament before
it advances to both the Federation Council and then the president for approval.
