Russian State DumaAmendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offenses on the introduction of liability for discrediting OSV members, including volunteers, have been submitted to the State Duma. This was announced by the speaker of the lower house of parliament Vyacheslav Volodin.He clarified that any distribution of fakes, as well as other actions aimed at discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, volunteers, organizations and persons helping in the performance of tasks during the OSV are unacceptable.In accordance with the amendments, the maximum penalty for such a charge is imprisonment for up to 15 years and a fine of five million rubles.Earlier, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin sent a letter to Volodin asking him to introduce an article into the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation prohibiting defamatory actions against volunteers participating in the OSV.
