russia to punish for distribution of maps without occupied Ukrainian territories
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In the first reading, the russian parliament adopted a draft law that provides punishment for the distribution of maps that "deny the territorial integrity of russia," i.e., do not contain Ukraine's territories that russia considers "annexed."
The russian media Meduza and the russian BBC service reported about it.
Changes will be made to the article "Production and distribution of extremist materials" of the code of russia on administrative offenses.
According to this document, citizens will be fined up to 3,000 rubles or arrested for up to 15 days for distributing maps of russia on which Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions of Ukraine and Crimea are not marked.
Officials will be charged up to 5 thousand rubles, and legal entities will be fined up to one million.
If this draft law is adopted, any map on which the territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by the russians are not marked as part of russia may come under its influence.
The ban and penalties will apply to maps and images intended for distribution or public display.
We will remind you that russia announced the annexation of Ukrainian regions even though no area is completely occupied. Fighting continues in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Ukraine's armed forces continue their counteroffensive. In November, they liberated Kherson, and in October, Lyman in Donetsk region.
