Russia's Crime Rate Hits 12-Year High, Official Data Shows - SDF Chatter

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/40882844 [https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/40882844] > Archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20250822090209/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/08/20/russias-crime-rate-hits-12-year-high-a90295] > > Crime in Russia has hit its highest level in 12 years, the exiled news outlet Vyorstka reported, citing Prosecutor General’s Office data. > > According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, Russia registered 27,124 crimes in the first half of 2025 — 3,747 more than in the same period a year earlier and the highest figure since 2013. > > The figures also mark the first time that the the tally exceeded 23,377 in a six-month span since 2014. > > The agency did not disclose the types of crimes. > > The figures come as more than 130,000 veterans of the war in Ukraine — including thousands of former prison inmates — return home. > > […] > > The government has long debated how to manage returning ex-combatants, particularly those recruited from prisons. > > Last year, Nina Ostanina, head of the State Duma’s Family Protection Committee, urged the authorities to establish permanent oversight of former inmates returning from the front. > > But Andrei Alshevsky, a lawmaker on the Duma’s Security Committee, rejected the idea, arguing that “heroes of the [special military operation]” had already “atoned for their guilt with blood” and deserved the state’s care. > > […]