The Russian State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill allowing the use of armed forces abroad by decision of the President of the Russian Federation to protect Russians who are being prosecuted. This was reported by Deutsche Welle, informs UNN.
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It is noted that the amendments to the law propose to grant the President of the Russian Federation the right of "extraterritorial use" of the armed forces "to protect Russian citizens who are arrested, detained or subjected to criminal or other prosecution by decisions of foreign courts or international judicial bodies in which Russia does not participate."
The bill was prepared by the Ministry of Defense and applies only to the actions of courts in which Russia does not participate and whose jurisdiction is not based on an international treaty with Russia or on a resolution of the UN Security Council
At the same time, in the explanatory note, the authors of the initiative acknowledge that the federal law "On Security" already provides for similar duties of the president to protect citizens of the Russian Federation, and the proposed changes are being introduced "in development of this norm." The authors do not specify what situations could lead to such measures.
"Lawyers assumed that it could be about tribunals, the creation of which is initiated by individual states or international associations for criminal prosecution. Experts ... assumed that it could be about "legislative formalization" of the protection of "shadow fleet" courts," the publication writes.
Recall
Earlier, the head of the President's Office, Kyrylo Budanov, met with the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Mattias Guyomar. He reminded that the ECHR has already established Russia's responsibility for systemic human rights violations in Ukraine since 2014.