MOSCOW, December 26 (RAPSI) – The Federation Council, the upper house of Russia’s parliament, on Tuesday approved a bill toughening punishment for recruiting terrorists up to life sentence.

The document was adopted by the State Duma on December 14.

The bill is aimed to tighten counteracting financing and organizing terrorist and extremist activities. Crimes related to such financing or any form of inducing people to commit crimes of terrorist nature may result in penalties ranging from fines of up to 700,000 rubles (nearly $12,000) to life sentence.

The draft law also extensively defines “terrorism propaganda” term. Committing this crime would be punishable by up to 5 years in prison.

Currently, punishment for recruiting terrorists may only reach as high as 10 years in prison.