The State Duma of Russia adopted a number of laws, which secured the repression of its own citizens and the violation of human rights, said the former Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Gunduz Mammadov.

If there are theses that #Ukraine is fighting for democratic values, the price is for just words. In our eyes, the authoritarian political regime #RF is transforming into a totalitarian. State Duma? closed the reprisals on the appeal to their own citizens, that destruction of the rights of the people on the legislator's level? pic. twitter. com/7Wa3Uyn3KY.

— Gunduz Mamedov/Gyunduz Mamedov (@MamedovGyunduz) July 8, 2022.

Earlier it was reported that amendments to Russian legislation adopted in March 2022 introduced liability for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.. Innovations in the Code of Administrative Offenses threaten with fines from 30,000 to 1 million rubles, and changes to the Criminal Code allow imprisonment for up to 15 years. In the same month, the courts began to apply the new rules. Honest independent journalists and bloggers have become the number one target.

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In particular, after the adoption of the law in Moscow, a public figure and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza was arrested, suspected of allegedly spreading fake news about the Russian army.. The arrest was made after he, in a speech to members of the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the United States spoke about the Russian bombing of residential areas and social infrastructure in Ukraine. In addition, a criminal case was opened against the well-known journalist Alexander Nevzorov, who also informed the Russians about the crimes of their compatriots in Mariupol..