Penza, 1 October 2021. PenzaNews. Since the beginning of 2021, police officers drew up 8 404 administrative offence reports against visitors to Penza shopping centres and stores under Art. 20.6.1 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, “Failure to comply with the rules of conduct in an emergency or threat thereof” for failure to comply with the mask regime. This was stated in a message of the press service of the city administration.

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“The region has a high alert regime in place, which prescribes a mask regime and social distance, introduces a ban on catering from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., security measures in retail and food courts, restrictions on public events and a number of other measures,” the text says.

It adds that compliance with these requirements is checked during inter-agency raids.