An expert group to study possible measures against Russians who have gone abroad and publicly discredited it is being formed in the State Duma, the Izvestia newspaper writes.

According to the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, Elena Yampolskaya, representatives of all departments related to the humanitarian and security spheres will be invited to work on the measures already in force in the country and prepare changes to the legislation. She clarified that "we are not talking about the fact that for some words you just need to deprive something."

According to Yampolskaya, the first meeting on the relevant issue is scheduled for mid-February. Currently, a number of proposals from deputies of various committees of the lower house have been identified, including the idea of confiscation of property, as well as the deprivation of titles and a ban on the distribution of content in the Russian segment of the Internet.

Earlier, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin proposed to confiscate the property of those who left Russia and openly support the rehabilitation of Nazism, extremism and discredit the Russian Armed Forces. Following Volodin, Vice Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Anna Kuznetsova proposed using the property of citizens who left Russia to solve the problem of providing housing for orphans.

At the same time, the head of the Constitutional Committee of the Federation Council Andrei Klishas emphasized that this issue cannot be dispensed with “without serious amendments to the Criminal Code, since leaving the country is not a crime.