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Putin signed a law that introduces criminal liability for desecration of the St. George ribbon
Vladimir Putin signed a law clarifying the legal status of the St. George ribbon: now it refers to “symbols of military glory,” and therefore its desecration can be prosecuted (rehabilitation of Nazism). Interfax is about this.
hh. 3 and 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code writes the SOVA Center that the absence of such a law has not previously prevented law enforcement officers from initiating criminal cases under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism for the desecration of the St. George ribbon.
So , in November, the coordinator of the organizing committee “For the removal of Lenin” Mikhail Nalimov was sentenced to three years of forced labor because of publications with the symbols of Victory Day, including the St. George ribbon, and pentagrams.