Earlier this month, Duma deputy Pavel Krashenninikov and Senator Andrey Klishas, both known for their radicalism, calls for the addition to the Russian criminal code of a new paragraph, 280,2, that would impose sentences of up to 10 years in prison for actions directed at “the alienation of territory of Russia.”
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A woman walks in front of a tower of the Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry building in downtown Moscow on July 30, 2020.
