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The State Duma adopted in the third and final reading a law providing for a punishment of up to ten years in prison for "telephone terrorism". This is reported by Interfax.

Now the maximum punishment under Article 207 of the Criminal Code (knowingly false message about the act of terrorism) is five years of the colony. Now in the article there will be four parts instead of two. The smallest liability is provided for a false message made from hooligan motives (part 1). It will be punished with a fine of 200 to 500 thousand rubles, or forced labor for a period of two to three years.

For the "mining" of social infrastructure facilities, such as schools, hospitals, stations, recreation houses, etc. (part 2), a fine of 500 to 700 thousand rubles or the terms from three to five years of the colony are provided. The same sanction is established in case of damage exceeding 1 million rubles.

False reports of terrorist attacks aimed at the destabilization of the activities of government bodies will be punished with a fine of 700 thousand to 1 million rubles or a period of six to eight years of the colony (part 3). If the message will entail the death of a person or “other grave consequences” (part 4), a fine of 1.5 to 2 million rubles or a term of 8 to 10 years of the colony is provided for the perpetrators.

One of the authors of the amendments, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation, Pavel Krasheninnikov said that their adoption was due to a wave of telephone terrorism, which overwhelmed Russia in September. “More than 160 cities were subjected to such an attack, only more than 10 million people were evacuated,” he said. The total damage from false reports of terrorist attacks amounted to billions of rubles.

According to Krasheninnikov, the current norms of the Criminal Code did not provide for punishment for such system attacks and were "absolutely ineffective." “The simplest thing that could be done was simply to increase the term of punishment, but in this case we went all the same as a different path,” he said. The authors of the bill were also the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and the head of the Security Committee Vasily Piskarev.

In early October, unofficial sources claimed that most bombs are made from Ukraine . Meanwhile, according to other reports that appeared at the same time, the calls were made from the IP addresses in Brussels. On October 5, FSB director Alexander Bortnikov said that the organizers of the wave of "telephone terrorism" are four Russians living abroad.

In addition, in different regions, the police and the FSB detained several people who left false messages about bombs. However, as it turned out, they began to make calls, already learning about the mass telephone attack from the media and social networks. Unlike the organizers of the action, these citizens used ordinary phones, not IP telephony.

On December 12, the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Zubov said that most of the false anonymous calls about bombs allegedly laid down on various objects in different cities of Russia came "from the places of concentration of terrorists in Syria." In addition, an official added, bomb reports came from Turkey, from Ukraine, the USA and Canada, as well as from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. "In terms of intensity, we can say that in fact it was a cyber rescue to the territory of the Russian Federation," Zubov noted. Criminal cases have been instituted on the facts of 2700 anonymous calls, the official said.