Russians disseminating false information about coronavirus infection can receive up to three years of restriction of freedom, said Andrei Klishas, chairman of the Federation Council committee on constitutional legislation.
As the parliamentarian RIA Novosti said, fakes about the coronavirus “have a high degree of public danger.” According to Klishas, such actions are “a challenge to the whole society” from people who deliberately spread disinformation. He noted that there are more and more fake publications on the Internet about vaccination and its consequences.
As for legal entities, for them for the dissemination of false information about the coronavirus, liability is provided in the form of a fine from 1.5 to 3 million rubles, Klishas said.
Earlier, in the Kirov region, a man was caught who, under a pseudonym, wrote on the Internet about the residents of Kirov who allegedly died due to the coronavirus vaccine. For fake comments, he will pay a fine from 30 to 100 thousand rubles.
The site kp.ru wrote about the main fakes about the coronavirus on the Web.
