The State Duma adopted bills on expanding the grounds for recognition as a “foreign agent” and the possibility of trial in absentia in cases of “discrediting” the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
In addition, “foreign agents” will be prohibited from working as teachers. State Duma deputies immediately passed a package of bills in the second and third readings, which, according to them, “are aimed at ensuring the protection of sovereignty and preventing interference in the internal politics” of Russia. Two of them concern “foreign agents”, two – criminal cases under articles of calls for terrorism, “discrediting” the Russian army and spreading “fakes” about it and others.