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A Russian government bill submitted on July 15 to the State Duma proposed broader criteria as to under which condition Russian citizens may be added to the country’s list of terrorists and extremists. In a effort to continue to crackdown on political dissent on Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the proposed legislation would allow the Russian Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring) to add individuals convicted of spreading “false information” about Russia’s military to the list – provided it is motivated by broadly defined “hatred.” If enacted, the new measures would…

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