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The deputies of the State Duma in the second and third reading adopted a resolution on amnesty in honor of the anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War.
In the final reading of the draft 442 deputies voted for the order of application – 443.
In the course of today’s meeting of parliament rejected the proposed deputy from the “Fair Russia” Dmitry Gudkov amendment, according to which the amnesty would apply to defendants in cases brought under Article 212 of the Criminal Code (“participation in mass riots»).
As chairman of the Duma Committee on Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov, the Amnesty Act does not go to the Federation Council – it is signed by the Speaker of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin, published in “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” and immediately thereafter enters into force. According to Krasheninnikov, the document can be published today or tomorrow. “Those citizens who have committed a crime after its publication, are not subject to amnesty” – he says.
The draft resolution on amnesty was introduced by President Duma April 9th. According to estimates of the Kremlin, the amnesty will affect a total of 260 thousand. Man. Deputies come from greater numbers. Krasheninnikov said that the amnesty can relate to 350-400 thousand people.
The proposed version of the amnesty President may exempt men over 55 and women over 50 years (600), as well as disabled groups I and II, patients with active phase of tuberculosis and cancer III or IV clinical group (478 people). But the most large category of persons covered by the amnesty (up to 50 thousand. People) – is convicted, the sentence which remained at the end of the amnesty decree is less than one year. Amnesty touches and at least 200 thousand. Probation.
The second reading of the draft amnesty, in particular, the Fixed n. 6, according to which terminated criminal cases pending before the courts, which have not initiated court production. Deputies still in the discussion document at a meeting of the relevant committee, and when considered in the first reading at the plenary session emphasized the need to exclude from this point last words, or an amnesty would not apply to those in respect of which there is already a lawsuit. Krasheninnikov supported this proposal.
The result will be terminated are in the production of bodies of inquiry, preliminary investigation agencies and courts of criminal cases concerning crimes committed before the date of entry into force of the decision.
Amnesty touches prisoners who first committed crimes small and moderate, who participated in the fighting in Afghanistan and other countries and awarded Soviet and Russian orders and medals. Thus amnesty will affect not only the order-bearers, but also received honorary titles such as People’s Artist or honored doctor, forester or transport workers. Under the amnesty also covered the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident and the accident at the plant “Mayak” in Chelyabinsk region in 1957.
As he wrote RBC, lawyers agree that the amnesty will affect combatants, including during the Chechen campaigns, as well as a number of politicians and bureaucrats. In particular, the amnesty is subject to United Russia deputy Tambov Regional Duma Vladimir Toporkov who got killed by a road worker in the center of Moscow and received three years in prison for a crime of negligence.
Some groups of defendants in criminal cases were excluded from the -under the amnesty. This applies, in particular, persons who are intoxicated violated rules of the road that led to the death of the person, as well as those whose actions on the road led through negligence in the death of two or more persons.
When discussing the draft amnesty for the 70th anniversary of the Victory MPs from the opposition factions announced yesterday criticized the prosecutor’s sentence supernumerary main criminal case of embezzlement in the “Oboronservis” Yevgeny Vasilyev to eight years’ probation. Communist Valentin Romanov regrets that this happens at the threshold of the Victory Day. “It will be perceived as veterans stunning cynicism. How can you say such a thing to the people who robbed the army! “- MP said.
« We are here to argue with you, or not to release a man who stole a sack of potatoes or who accidentally on a dark road made a tragic event that killed people, not drunk, and we deprive him vypushennyh reason to be pardoned, and here we are the queen, who sit in the 11-room cameras, draw a picture, they go on probation. On the next anniversary, 75th anniversary, the Victory is sure to be amnestied, “- commented the deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party Sergei Ivanov.
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