Wartime laws.
Six constitutional rights that have been nullified in Russia in two years.
During the two years of war in Ukraine, the authorities adopted dozens of repressive laws that abolished the rights and freedoms of citizens guaranteed by the Constitution. Accordingly six basic standards have been reset:
1️⃣ Freedom of speech (Article 29).
In March 2022, liability was introduced for “discrediting” the army, military “fakes” and calls for sanctions. In July a law was passed on the extrajudicial closure of media outlets. The Investigative Committee opened 273 cases of “fake news” and 81 cases of “discrediting the army.”
2️⃣ Prohibition of discrimination (Article 19).
In the fall of 2022, the ban on “gay propaganda” was tightened, and in 2023, the Supreme Court declared LGBT people an extremist organization. According to Meduza estimates , up to 15 million LGBT people live in the Russian Federation: an entire segment of the population is deprived of their rights.
3️⃣ Inviolability of private property (Article 35). Since February, a law on the confiscation of property of those accused under “political” charges has come into force; security forces have the right to seize apartments immediately after charges are filed. During the seizure of the property of those who left, about 20 large enterprises were nationalized.
4️⃣ Freedom of movement (Art. 27).
In the spring of 2023, the State Duma legalized the forced relocation of people from the occupied territories. In the summer, she introduced a ban on the departure of conscripts and those called up for mobilization.
5️⃣ Right to freedom of creativity (Article 44).
Military censorship penetrated music, cinema, theater and literature. Opinion leaders are included in lists of extremists and terrorists, declared foreign agents and their books and performances are banned. The authorities admitted that by September 2023, 170 artists had left the country.
6️⃣ Right to life (Article 20)
Extrajudicial executions became commonplace at the front, Putin openly approved executions “for patriotic reasons,” Prigozhin and Navalny were killed without trial. The murder of Kuzminov in Spain, who was shot several times and then run over by a car, was admitted on state TV.
According to lawyer Ivan Pavlov, Article 29 suffered the most: “The most important goal for the regime during the war is to achieve control over the dissemination of information so that it does not reach the Russian audience from the free environment.”
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