Obama quietly nods in approval.

Via Moscow Times:

Lawmakers from the Communist Party faction in the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, have drafted a bill that would introduce a 10-year prison sentence for comparing the Soviet regime to Nazi Germany, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Monday.

The bill was a response to the “clearly emerging international tendency to change the post-war world order and rewrite the results of World War II,” a note accompanying the bill said, RIA Novosti reported.

Accusations of foreign or domestic foes’ attempts to “change world order” by seeking to rob Russia of its supposedly rightful sphere of influence have become a common theme in Moscow’s anti-Western rhetoric amid the Ukrainian crisis.

Meanwhile, praise for Russia’s Soviet past has enjoyed a revival.

The latest bill — proposed by Duma deputies Valery Rashkin and Sergei Obukhov of the Communist Party — would add amendments to another law adopted last year that introduced five-year prison terms for “rehabilitating” Nazism, RIA Novosti reported.