The State Duma adopted in the second and third readings a bill that introduces the concepts of “mobilization,” “martial law,” and “wartime” into the Criminal Code.

State Duma deputies adopted in the second and third readings a bill that introduces the concepts of “mobilization,” “martial law,” and “wartime” into the Criminal Code. The broadcast is carried out on the website of the lower house of parliament.

The authors of the bill were State Duma deputies Dmitry Vyatkin, Ernest Valeev, Vasily Piskarev, Andrey Kartapolov, Leonid Slutsky, Oleg Nilov, Vladislav Davankov, Viktor Sobolev, Nikolay Kolomeytsev, as well as senators Andrey Klishas and Olga Kovitidi. The fact that they proposed such amendments became known today .

The bill involves amending paragraph “l” of the first part of the article on aggravating circumstances (Article 63 of the Criminal Code). The parliamentarians decided to replace the words “in conditions of armed conflict or hostilities” with “during mobilization or martial law, in wartime, or in conditions of armed conflict or hostilities.”

In addition, deputies want to add to the Criminal Code articles on looting (Article 356.1 of the Criminal Code) and voluntary surrender (Article 352.1 of the Criminal Code) with maximum sentences of up to 15 and 10 years in prison, respectively, as well as articles related to violations of the terms of a government contract for a defense order (Articles 201.2, 201.3, 285.5, 285.6 of the Criminal Code).

As stated in the draft law, its authors plan to increase the sentences for leaving a unit during mobilization and martial law from a maximum of five to 10 years (Article 337 of the Criminal Code).