Earlier, Sergei Mironov, the head of the pro-government Just Russia party criticized two Russian regions for refusing to bury with military honors Wagner fighters killed in Ukraine.
The founder of the mercenary company Wagner asked the Russian parliament to ban the media from publishing negative reports about its men, amending the criminal code so that the “defamation” of fighters of being punished with imprisonment of up to five years.
THE Yevgeny Prigozhin he made this request in a letter to Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the State Duma (Lower House). Prigozhin’s press office released the letter today.
Volodin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has already advocated amending the criminal code to allow authorities to seize assets of Russians living abroad who publicly insult Russia and its armed forces.
Prigozhin in his letter accuses “certain media, bloggers and Telegram channels” of defaming his men, including ex-convicts he recruited from prisons, portraying them as “evil and criminals”. This is a reference to the fact that in some cases the criminal or dark past of some of them has been revealed. The convicts accepted his offer to fight in Ukraine for six months and, if they survived, would be pardoned, even if they had originally been sentenced to life in prison.
Prigozhin asks parliament to criminalize slandering his men and to ban the disclosure of their criminal pasts. “In essence, people who are in the most dangerous places on the front line and daily risk their lives and die for the country, are presented as second-class people, denied the right to atone for their crimes and consciously downplay their achievements “, he writes in this text.
So far there is no reaction from Volodin.
Earlier, Sergei Mironov, the head of the pro-government Just Russia party criticized two Russian regions for refusing to bury with military honors Wagner fighters killed in Ukraine. “These decisions are unethical, you cannot judge what a person has done in the past. Especially if this man died with a gun in his hands, defending our motherland,” he commented.
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