Senators helped mobilize by deed - Newspaper Kommersant No. 175 (7376) of 09/22/2022

Senators helped mobilize by deed - Newspaper Kommersant No. 175 (7376) of 09/22/2022



The first meeting of the autumn session of the Federation Council (SF) opened on Wednesday in the context of the just announced partial mobilization. Federation Council speaker Valentina Matvienko also began her opening speech with the theme of the special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine. In particular, she stated that “we must end this war, even though we did not start it,” and the residents of Donbass and the “liberated territories” have the right to self-determination. The senators supported her words with deeds, almost unanimously approving a law toughening criminal liability for military crimes during the period of mobilization and martial law.

Opening the autumn session, Valentina Matvienko first of all commented on President Vladimir Putin's decree on partial mobilization. According to her, we are talking about protecting the independence and freedom of our country, and all those mobilized will be “unconditionally provided with all the means we have”: “The President believes in our support, I have no doubt that it will be so.” The speaker also recalled that residents of the people's republics of Donbass, as well as "liberated territories of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions" took the initiative to hold referenda on joining the Russian Federation and "have every right to do so." “This popular initiative is the most striking indicator of the collapse of the policy of Kyiv and the West to create the Anti-Russia project,” Ms. Matvienko added, warning the senators that they would soon have “a lot of hard work” to join new subjects.

Noting that the past months had "convincingly confirmed" the correctness of the decision to start the SVO, the Chairman of the Federation Council stated that "we must end this war, even though we did not start it," and following the President, she stated that the West was pumping weapons to Ukraine, therefore, "in fact Russia is fighting against NATO", and "the collective West, through the hands of Ukrainians, is implementing plans to destroy Russia." Valentina Matvienko lamented that “our Ukrainian brothers succumbed to massive processing, anti-Russian zombies, falsification of history,” but expressed the hope that “sooner or later this dope will pass and the realization of a monstrous crime will come - a betrayal committed by the puppet regime of Kyiv against its people.” “It is our soul that hurts for Ukraine, and it is alien to the West,” said the head of the Federation Council, assuring that the senators will continue to do everything to support the members of the NWO (including those mobilized), their relatives and friends.

Ms. Matvienko finished by reminding that "Russia has always won with the whole world."

A high degree of consolidation of society, in her opinion, is shown not only by opinion polls, but also by the results of recent elections in the regions. “Today, more than 90% of citizens call themselves patriots. This is the highest figure in the history of the new Russia, and such solidarity will definitely lead us to victory, ”the speaker of the Federation Council promised. She also added that, "despite the realities in which we live, not a single national program, not a single social obligation is removed from the agenda" and "the development of the country is not put on pause."

Shortly thereafter, the senators had the opportunity to demonstrate their own solidarity around the topic of mobilization. They submitted a law introducing new and tightening the existing articles of the Criminal Code, which provide for punishment for crimes against military service under martial law, mobilization and hostilities. Recall that the day before, this document was adopted immediately in the second and third readings and without discussion by the State Duma.

In the morning, in parallel with the President's speech, these amendments were considered by the relevant committee of the Federation Council on constitutional legislation and state building. Its chairman, Andrei Klishas, ​​explained that it was possible to create a sectoral law that would only apply in wartime, since the criminal law doctrine was written for peacetime. But in the end, it was decided to extend the effect of the Criminal Code to all regimes through qualifying signs, since there are no terminological novels in them.

“There is no clumsiness in terms of using the terms “wartime”, “armed conflict” and “military operations,” agreed Deputy Minister of Justice Andrei Loginov. will have to be done."

Already during the plenary session, Mr. Klishas said that back in the summer, parliamentarians held consultations with the security forces on the adoption of an industry law, but due to its “rigidity and repressiveness”, it was decided to amend the Criminal Code. “We need to explain this to people, talk more, tell, because these fears (in people.— "b"), as a rule, are groundless,” Ms. Matviyenko said after his speech. Senator Lyudmila Talabayeva asked if it was looting when servicemen pick up the helmets of dead soldiers. In response, Andrei Klishas spoke about the established practice: “If a serviceman takes possession of weapons or equipment on the battlefield, this is not considered looting, the amendment is aimed at protecting civilians.”

“We do not have martial law, while some measures of the law are taken “for growth”, for the future. When will that time come?" asked Lyudmila Narusova.

In response, the head of the committee "was forced to explain" that the articles of the Criminal Code were all written "for growth", since they contain a prevention: "Their first task is to tell what not to do." As a result, the law was adopted by 147 votes, only Senator Narusova was against it.

Discussing the accumulated issues and laws, the senators did not fail to congratulate Vice Speaker Konstantin Kosachev on his recent 60th birthday. He himself took the floor to say that he felt in Vladimir Putin's address "the determination to defend the Russian people by all available means." “In the special operation zone, of course, first of all. But we are talking about protecting our Fatherland," the senator emphasized. In his opinion, this is a warning that “war games with a nuclear power are unacceptable”: “Everyone who has retained the remnants of common sense should be aware that this is no longer about the temperatures in the apartments of Europeans, but about the safety of all people without exception in Europe. It's not a bluff."

Andrew Ashes



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