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Crime in Russia has hit its highest level in 12 years, the exiled news outlet Vyorstka reported, citing Prosecutor General’s Office data.

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, Russia registered 27,124 crimes in the first half of 2025 — 3,747 more than in the same period a year earlier and the highest figure since 2013.

The figures also mark the first time that the the tally exceeded 23,377 in a six-month span since 2014.

The agency did not disclose the types of crimes.

The figures come as more than 130,000 veterans of the war in Ukraine — including thousands of former prison inmates — return home.

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The government has long debated how to manage returning ex-combatants, particularly those recruited from prisons.

Last year, Nina Ostanina, head of the State Duma’s Family Protection Committee, urged the authorities to establish permanent oversight of former inmates returning from the front.

But Andrei Alshevsky, a lawmaker on the Duma’s Security Committee, rejected the idea, arguing that “heroes of the [special military operation]” had already “atoned for their guilt with blood” and deserved the state’s care.

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