Potentially good news for the Siberian tiger, from the President of Russia’swebsite, with the prospect of making tiger offenses crimes rather than merely ‘administrative’ offenses …”Sergei Ivanovheld a meeting on the conservation of Siberian tigers.
“The Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office noted that currently, keeping, buying, selling and transportingrare animals and their derivatives is subject to administrative penalty only.”Sergei Ivanov suggested introducing criminal sanctions for capturing, selling and transporting animals listed in the Red Data Book as well as their derivatives, and for their transportation across the Russian state border.”The National Siberian Tiger Programme was adopted in 2010. Russia is the only nation where the number of tigers has grown significantly since the mid-20th century and has been stable for the last ten years.”
Original article at http://eng.state.kremlin.ru/face/4549
In Russia, administrative punishment is intended as an educational corrective to less serious offences and penalties include a warning (public censure), fine, correctional tasks, confiscation of property, arrest, and temporary deprivation of some special rights.
