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MOSCOW, June 18. /TASS/. the Number of false reports regarding the upcoming nationwide vote on amendments to the Constitution, in the last week grew six times in just two weeks revealed more than 1,5 thousand of fakes, their number will continue to grow.

On Thursday said the Chairman of the Commission of the Public chamber of the Russian Federation (OP RF) on development of information community, media and mass communications Alexander Malkevich during the meeting of the working group on preparation of amendments to the basic law.

“I Want the alarm to notice that for last week the number of false alarms, stuffing increased six times. Over the past two weeks we have detected over 1.5 thousand of fake messages. There are at least 15 of the original stuffing, which is then creatively developed, replicated,” said Malkevich, who heads the expert consulting group of public chamber on public control over electronic voting on amendments to the Constitution.

According to him, “is very actively used to promote political content platform TikTok. “Worldwide, this entertaining short video, where dancing, singing and fooling around, but in Russia it is also a channel of political messages, with a negative connotation and false”, — stated the member of the public chamber. In addition, in this direction is conducted “coordinated work” media-registered as foreign agents and foreign publications, he said.

for Example, spreading a false belief that the citizens of Russia will lose the opportunity to appeal to international courts.

According to the Malkevich, to promote stuffing involved, “fake heroes, freaks, who act as experts for media-registered as foreign agents, then it drags on social networks”. “The level of so-called expertise prohibitively low. something tattooed instagram models tell you why they don’t like amendments to the Constitution”, — stated the head of Commission OP.

“We see that there is a tendency to increase, you have to be prepared for the fact that the number of fakes will grow in the already clear directions to compromise the voting procedure the amendments to our Constitution and create a powerful negative background in social networks, which then would allow to connect media-registered as a foreign agent and the media abroad to spoil the impression of a very significant event for our country, which will be held on July 1,” said Malkevich, assuring collected materials will be transferred to the Commission of the state Duma and the Federation Council on studying of facts of interference in the internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. He also expressed the hope that in respect of persons who distribute fakes systemically, followed by legal action.

In turn, the head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutionomu legislation and state construction, co-chair of the working group on amendments to the Constitution Andrei Klishas noted that the stuffing of such quantity of fakes is not accidental.

According to him, “when you can’t find the real problems of legal gaps in the procedure, the content of the amendments, when there is no real of these claims, then we have to invent” fakes.

on 1 June, Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the leadership of the CEC and members of the working group on preparation of amendments to the main law of the country supported the proposal to hold a vote on July 1. Later, the President signed the corresponding decree.

In January 2020 in his address to the Federal Assembly, Putin proposed to amend the basic law a number of amendments that would make the document more relevant to the contemporary reality and would perpetuate the results achieved. After discussion of the amendments by the ad hoc working group on 11 March the state Duma adopted in the final reading the presidential bill. On the same day it was approved by the Federation Council, then the document was supported by the legislative assemblies of all subjects of the Russian Federation. The outcome of this examination on 14 March, the Federation Council adopted a resolution and sent it to the President.

Putin has signed a decree, appointing a nationwide vote on the amendments on April 22. However, due to the pandemic coronavirus President in a televised address to the citizens on 25 March said that the vote should be postponed.