Prochrevsky activists will check the use of the St. George ribbon

The project of the Youth Chamber at the Moscow City Duma "Patrol of Victory" will hold raids on the May holidays to check how respectfully citizens and organizations use patriotic symbols. It is reported by Kommersant.

According to the chairman of the Youth Chamber at the MGD of Vladimir Mokhta, the activists of the Victory Patrol will hold conversations with those who wear St. George ribbons on their clothes or fix it on a car, but does not show proper respect for the symbol. “Sometimes the ribbon is hung on the car, and it turns into a dirty rag. Sometimes they tie the St. George tape on the belt, this is disrespectful,” said Mokhta.

Participants of the patrols intend to tell violators how "you need to wear a St. George ribbon correctly." In addition, it is supposed to complain about disrespect for this symbol in local councils of veterans.

The Victory Patrol will also check the organizations using patriotic symbols. According to Mokhta, some shops and clubs abuse the offers of "front -line hundred grams" to each client. “This is wrong, because the front -line hundred grams is quite significant from the point of view of the Great Patriotic War,” he said.

In April last year, a member of the State Duma Committee on Defense, the chairman of the Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice, Igor Zotov proposed to introduce criminal liability for the desecration of victory symbols in the Great Patriotic War, such as the Banner of Victory, the Order of Victory or the St. George ribbon.

“For most of my one -party members, the victory banks are the Banner of Victory, the Order of Victory, the St. George ribbon,” Zotov explained. The deputy added that the punishment for abuse or desecration of victory symbols is supposed to establish by analogy with punishment for the same in relation to the symbols of the state. He proposed to amend Article 329 of the Criminal Code ("Abuse of the state emblem or state flag).

The current federal legislation currently provides for administrative liability for violation of the procedure for using state symbols and criminal - for abuse of the flag or emblem of the country.