Against the backdrop of the SVO in Ukraine, the State Duma proposed to reduce the time, which, according to the current legislation, are established for the recognition of missing military personnel as dead.
Currently, missing servicemen are officially recognized as dead only two years after the end of hostilities.. The authors of the bill propose at the legislative level to recognize the dead military personnel two years after they were given the status of missing, regardless of the timing of the end of hostilities. State Duma deputies are ready to support the initiative of the authors of the bill and even call for reducing the time required for this up to six months.
Izvestia reports..
The authors of the bill propose to amend Art.. 42 and 45 Civil Code, which will allow for a shorter time at the official level to recognize a serviceman as missing, and in the case, if the person is not found, two years after the recognition of a serviceman as missing, officially recognize him as dead.
As of November this year, in the Russian branch of the bureau of the Central Agency for Tracing of the ICRC on issues, related to hostilities in Ukraine, reported, that they received more 40 thousand hits and 5 thousand applications from citizens, searching for the missing during the armed conflict. but, how many of them are Russian, and how many Ukrainian military personnel, The Red Cross does not specify. Author:Maxim Svetlyshev
