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Russian Officials Propose Overthrowing Putin, Charging Him With Treason

BY GIULIA CARBONARO ON 9/8/22 AT 10:53 AM EDT

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https://www.newsweek.com/russian-officials-propose-overthrowing-putin-charging-treason-1741085

A group of Russian officials has appealed to the country's State Duma to remove President Vladimir Putin from power on the charge of high treason, a document shared by one of the Russian deputies who co-signed the proposal reveals.

In a tweet published on Wednesday by Nikita Yurefev, a municipal deputy for Smolninskoe in St. Petersburg, the official wrote that the Council of the Smolninskoye Municipal District "sent a proposal to the State Duma demanding to remove Putin from office based on the charges of high treason."

The treason charge appears to be directly related to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which in Russia is still referred to as a "special military operation" by the Kremlin and its propaganda machine.