Fri. Nov 22nd, 2024
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The chairman of Russia’s parliament says those who fled the country to side with Ukraine should be charged with treason and sent to work in mines, in parts of Russia where there is no summer if they return home.

Russia’s war in Ukraine, something it calls a “special military operation”, and a subsequent mobilisation campaign, prompted several hundred thousand Russians to leave their homeland, though it is unclear exactly how many.

Moscow has tried to encourage some specialists, such as IT workers, to return and says some Russians have come back.

But Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the Duma, the lower house of parliament, made it clear on Wednesday that the authorities were less keen to see Russians whom he and others regard as traitors return.

“If they start returning now but have made statements against the country and financed the armed forces of Ukraine then of course we must choose a place to send them immediately,” Mr Volodin told parliament.

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