Overview

• Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin submitted the cross‑faction draft and referred it for priority review to the Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation.
• The bill adds qualifying elements to Criminal Code Articles 281.1 and 205.1 to criminalize inducing, recruiting, or involving a minor in sabotage or terrorist activity with penalties of 10–20 years, fines of 500,000–1,000,000 rubles, or life imprisonment.
• Provisions would lower the age of criminal responsibility to 14 for specified grave offenses, including sabotage, assistance to sabotage, training for sabotage, participation in a sabotage community, and terrorist activity.
• Sentencing rules would be tightened by barring suspended sentences for participation in a sabotage community, requiring 75% of a term to be served before parole eligibility, and prohibiting punishments below statutory minima.
• The Council of the Duma has included the bill in the October work program with comments accepted until October 23, according to a parliamentary source.