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Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a law<\/a> punishing \u201cfake news\u201d with up to 15 years in prison. The rule will impose<\/a> fines or jail terms for spreading false information about the military, as well as fines for people who publicly call for sanctions against Russia. Courts would mete out the harshest sentences for fake news that leads to \u201cserious consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to earlier coverage from The Moscow Times<\/em><\/a>, the bill is meant to penalize people who knowingly \u201cdistort the purpose, role and tasks of the Russian Armed Forces, as well as other units during special military and other operations,\u201d including people who spread unapproved information about Russian war losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiterally by tomorrow, this law will force punishment \u2014 and very tough punishment \u2014 on those who lied and made statements which discredited our armed forces,\u201d said Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of Russia\u2019s State Duma legislative body, in a statement quoted by Reuters<\/em>. Putin signed an earlier \u201cfake news\u201d law in 2019<\/a> that includes fines and jail time for disrespecting the Russian government, but the penalty was a far lighter 15 days.<\/p>\n

Russia has already cracked down on news outlets and social platforms amid its invasion of Ukraine, disputing<\/a> external death reports<\/a> that far exceed its own count and objecting to descriptions of the invasion as a war rather than a \u201cspecial military operation.\u201d The tech and communications regulatory agency Roskomnadzor partially blocked Facebook<\/a> for allegedly restricting the accounts of state-owned media, then blocked Twitter<\/a> soon after. It demanded that Wikipedia remove<\/a> supposedly false reports of casualties among Russian military troops as well as Ukrainian civilians, including children<\/a>, although it hasn\u2019t appeared to follow through on a threat to block it.<\/p>\n

Most recently, it blocked access<\/a> to the BBC and other news sites for \u201cundermining the Russian stability and security\u201d \u2014 leading the British outlet to broadcast over short-wave radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The BBC subsequently announced that it was suspending the work of its journalists and supporting staff in response to the law\u2019s passage. \u201cThis legislation appears to criminalize the process of independent journalism,\u201d said BBC director-general Tim Davie in a statement. \u201cOur BBC News service in Russian will continue to operate from outside Russia. The safety of our staff is paramount and we are not prepared to expose them to the risk of criminal prosecution simply for doing their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Update 11:15AM ET: <\/strong><\/em>Added statement from the BBC.<\/em><\/p>\n

Update 3:15PM ET: <\/strong><\/em>Story has been updated to reflect that President Vladimir Putin has signed the law after it was passed by the State Duma.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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