The State Duma has approved in the first reading a bill to fine up to 1 million rubles for distributing maps challenging Russia’s territorial integrity.
Citizens who distribute maps and other similar products will be fined from 1,000 to 3,000 roubles or arrested for up to 15 days. Officials will be fined from 2 thousand to 5 thousand rubles, legal entities – from 100 thousand to 1 million rubles.
In 2018, Ukraine organised an investigation over the display of a map with Russian Crimea by the head of the State Service for Transport Safety, Mikhail Nonyak.
Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which a majority of the peninsula’s residents voted in favour of reunification with Russia.
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