MOSCOW, July 20 (RAPSI) – A member of the United Russia party Adalbi Shkhagoshev has submitted a bill to the State Duma envisaging more severe punishment for recruiting terrorists, including life terms, the lower house of the Russian parliament informs on Thursday.

According to an explanatory note attached to the bill, the bill is aimed to amend the Criminal Code to make efforts targeting recruitment or other forms of involvement into organizing and financing of crimes of terrorist nature and, in more general terms, extremist and terrorist activities more efficient.

It is proposed to expand a provision of the Criminal Code dealing with assistance to terrorist activities and setting forth life term as the maximum punishment for such crimes by the inclusion of such formal elements of offence as preparation, inducement to, recruitment, or involvement in other forms into committing a crime of terrorist nature.  

The author of the bill believes that terrorism has become a global profitable business incompatible with democratic values and therefore abetting in terrorist activities and public justification thereof present extreme danger to the society. The lawmaker notes that every day over 1,000 people on average are recruited in terrorist organizations.