Law Against Rehabilitation of Nazism | |
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Federal Assembly | |
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Territorial extent | Russia |
Signed by | President Vladimir Putin |
Signed | 5 May 2014 |
Legislative history | |
Introduced by | Irina Yarovaya (YR) |
First reading | 23 April 2014 (State Duma) |
Second reading | 29 April 2014 (Federation Council) |
Amends | |
Criminal Code of the Russian Federation | |
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Memory laws | |
Status: Current legislation |
The Federal Law no. 128-FZ of May 5, 2014 "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation", usually referred to as the Law Against Rehabilitation of Nazism is a Russian memory law of 2014. It also known as Yarovaya Law, after a Russian politician (Irina Yarovaya) who was instrumental in passing it.[1]
The law was originally proposed in 2009. It was approved by the Russian parliament in April 2014, and signed into law by President of Russia Vladimir Putin in May that year.[2]