MOSCOW. Nov 30 (Interfax) - A group of Russian Duma deputies on Friday introduced a bill banning the public demonstration of images of WWII criminals.
The bill proposes equating public representation of images of persons found to be war criminals by the Nuremberg trials, other national, military, or occupational tribunals, as well as trials held during the Great Patriotic War, with extremism and banning them.
Similar to the ban on demonstrations of Nazi symbols, an exception would be made for images which do not contain signs of propaganda or justification of Nazism and instead "form a negative attitude toward Nazi ideology," the authors said.
The amendments are proposed to the laws "On countering extremism" and "On perpetuating the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
The bill was introduced by a group of deputies led by Yelena Yampolskaya, head of the culture committee, Vasily Piskaryov, head of the security and anti-corruption committee, and Pyotr Tolstoy, deputy speaker.