The plenum of Russia's Supreme Court put forward a bill to soften the punishment for keeping drugs for personal use and, in some cases, to replace prison with treatment for addiction. In 2024 about 50,800 people had been convicted under Article 228, roughly one in ten of all convictions.[1]
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