Comments on the Internet can become a serious crime - the government presented amendments to the criminal law to the State Duma. For calls for mass unrest, justification of terrorism and violence against government officials using the Internet or the media, they plan to introduce a new part of the article with a penalty of up to 6 years. Lawyers explained that this would make it possible to send citizens to pre-trial detention for comments, and human rights activist Yevgeny Smirnov linked the changes to the general line of harsher punishment for words.