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“Of course, these measures will be unable to stop single fanatics and even small groups consisting of several like-minded friends, if they, privately or individually, suddenly want to go to fight in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, but they are quite capable of stopping the stream of those who want to shoot, numbering in hundreds and thousands,” the political analyst said.

“Proceeding from the experience of my previous professional activity, I know quite well the methods of the response of the security and law enforcement bodies of Russia in such situations,” the political analyst said. “I completely exclude the possibility of the appearance of thousands of Russian Armenian volunteers in Nagorno-Karabakh region, as Deputy Head of the Union of Armenians in Russia Ruben Vardyanian said at the beginning of the battles."

Kuznetsov emphasized that the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation contains article 359, envisaging liability for "recruiting, training, financing or other material support of a mercenary, as well as the use of a mercenary in an armed conflict or hostilities" in the form of imprisonment from 4 years to 8 years.

"This article, as the experience of suppressing the flow of Russian mercenaries to Syria shows, is "working", that is, there is the experience of bringing real people to justice upon this article and sentencing them to real terms of imprisonment,” the political analyst said. “So neither the law enforcement bodies nor the courts will have any problems with its application if such a need arises due to the facts of the participation of mercenaries among Russian citizens in the hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. If nevertheless, anyone goes there, then this person must understand that this is a one-way ticket."

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