Russian State Duma to consider lifting ban on Taliban activities
Kyiv • UNN
A bill has been introduced in the State Duma of the Russian Federation to end the ban on terrorist organizations. The initiative is aimed at removing the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations.
The Russian State Duma has introduced a bill that would allow the ban on the activities of terrorist organizations to be lifted. This will make it possible to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorists, Russian media write, UNN reports .
According to rosmedia, a group of deputies and senators introduced amendments to the state Duma that would allow suspending the ban on the activities of organizations recognized as terrorist in Russia. The relevant draft law was published in the database of the lower house of parliament.
The explanatory note states that the mechanism of judicial prohibition of the activities of terrorist organizations and their inclusion in the relevant register is provided for by the federal law “On Countering Terrorism.
At the same time, the deputies and senators assume that “over time, a situation may arise” in which an organization declared a terrorist organization in Russia has ceased its activities “aimed at propaganda, justification and support of terrorism or the commission of the above crimes.” But, as the authors of the initiative note, Russian legislation does not provide for a mechanism that allows for “suspension of the ban on the activities of such an organization.
The authors of the amendments propose to terminate the ban on the activities of a terrorist organization by a court decision based on a statement by the Prosecutor General or his deputy “if there is relevant information.” After the court decision comes into force, the organization will be removed from the list of terrorist organizations.
It is noted that the draft law will allow to exclude the Taliban movement from the register of terrorist organizations.
Russian authorities have repeatedly spoken in recent years about plans to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations. In particular, in October 2021, after the US withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban seized power in the country, Vladimir Putin said that Russia was approaching a decision to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations, but that this should be done first by the UN Security Council.
Taliban delegations have visited Moscow many times.
On November 25, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, during a meeting with Afghan Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, reiterated his plans to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations.