Criminal penalties are being introduced for providing assistance to the enemy.
Moscow. December 28. INTERFAX - The President of the Russian Federation has signed a law on toughening responsibility up to life imprisonment for organizing an armed rebellion in the Russian Federation and participating in it, the official portal of legal information reports.
Currently, article 279 "Armed rebellion" of the Criminal Code does not provide for any differentiation of measures of responsibility for organizing and actively participating in an armed rebellion, including depending on the public danger of the acts. The Law sets out article 279 in a new wording. Thus, for organizing or leading an armed rebellion in order to overthrow or forcibly change the constitutional order of the Russian Federation or violate the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, the penalty is imprisonment for a term of 15 to 20 years with restriction of liberty for up to two years.
Participation in such an armed rebellion will be punishable by imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years with restriction of liberty for up to two years.
If the above-mentioned crimes have resulted in the death of a person or other grave consequences, they will be punishable by imprisonment for a term of 15 to 20 years with a fine of 500 thousand to 1 million rubles or life imprisonment.
The law also introduces an amendment to paragraph 2 of the notes to Article 275 "High Treason" of the Code, providing for the possibility of exemption from criminal liability for armed rebellion if a person voluntarily and timely informed the authorities or otherwise helped to prevent further damage to the interests of the Russian Federation, as well as if his actions do not contain other elements of a crime.
Such a decision will motivate the participants of the armed rebellion to refuse to continue their illegal actions, the explanatory note to the law says.
HELPING THE ENEMY
In addition, the law introduces a new article into the Criminal Code - 276.1 "Assistance to the enemy in activities deliberately directed against the security of the Russian Federation."
According to the law, the provision of financial, logistical, consulting or other assistance to an enemy located on the territory of the Russian Federation by a foreign citizen or a stateless person in activities deliberately directed against the security of the Russian Federation, in the absence of signs of espionage, will be punishable by a term of 10 to 15 years, a fine of up to 500 thousand rubles or the amount of the convicted person's salary for three years. of the year.
According to the law, an "opponent" will be understood as "a foreign state, international or foreign organization directly opposing the Russian Federation in an armed conflict, military operations or other actions involving the use of weapons and military equipment."
In addition, the law expands the current definition in Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation of "defecting to the enemy's side" - it will mean not only participation in the enemy's forces (troops) in an armed conflict, military operations or other actions involving the use of weapons and military equipment, but also "voluntary participation in the activities of authorities, institutions, enterprises, organizations of the enemy, deliberately directed against the security of the Russian Federation."
The law stipulates that a person who has committed these crimes "is exempt from criminal liability if he voluntarily and promptly informed the authorities or otherwise helped to prevent further damage to the interests of the Russian Federation and if his actions do not contain any other corpus delicti."
PAROLE
The Law stipulates that those convicted of armed rebellion, an act of international terrorism, facilitating terrorist activities, undergoing training in order to carry out terrorist activities, organizing a terrorist community and participating in it, and organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and participating in the activities of such an organization are not subject to parole.
