{"id":32256,"date":"2025-05-21T18:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=32256"},"modified":"2025-05-22T09:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:51:37","slug":"how-crimes-are-justified-in-russia-by-moral-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/how-crimes-are-justified-in-russia-by-moral-values\/","title":{"rendered":"How crimes are justified in Russia by &#8220;moral values&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian government has begun discussing the possibility of exempting criminals from criminal liability if they broke the law while &#8220;defending moral values.&#8221; This could even apply to acts of murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fThis initiative was voiced by russia\u2019s minister of justice, konstantin chuychenko, who claimed there should be no &#8220;contradiction between law and morality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>russian minister\u2019s proposal is yet another propagandistic manipulation surrounding so-called &#8220;spirituality&#8221; and &#8220;moral-ethical values&#8221; \u2014 narratives used by russian propaganda to justify war crimes committed by its armed forces in Ukraine and the participation of convicted criminals, including rapists and murderers, in the so-called &#8220;special military operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The main goal of such legal innovations is to create a framework that justifies real crimes committed by russians against Ukraine\u2019s civilian population under the pretext of defending mythical \u201cmoral values.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian government has begun discussing the possibility of exempting criminals from criminal liability if they broke the law while &#8220;defending moral values.&#8221; This could even apply to acts of murder. \u25ab\ufe0fThis initiative was voiced by russia\u2019s minister of justice, konstantin chuychenko, who claimed there should be no &#8220;contradiction between law and morality.&#8221; russian minister\u2019s proposal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}