MOSCOW, September 18 (RAPSI) – Chairman of the State Duma Committee on state building and legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov has submitted a bill proposing to reorganize military courts in Russia to the lower house of parliament.

According to Krasheninnikov, the bill was drafted to bring the military court system in line with a recently passed federal constitutional law establishing appeal and cassation courts of general jurisdiction, including military ones.

The bill also reads that military and navy courts are to be renamed in accordance with current military division as well as location and number of newly formed district directorates of Russia’s National Guard.

Authors of the bill also propose to establish a jurisdiction of new garrison military courts spreading it to territories with garrisons, military formations, agencies and institutions with military service.

Krasheninnikov also proposed to rename military courts in another bill to sort their powers as first instance courts for criminal cases, including ones on terrorism.