The register will be posted on the Justice Ministry's website, modeled on the register of "foreign agents," Sviridenko said. It will state the grounds for each restriction.
The ministry will decide on inclusion in the list on the recommendation of the Interior Ministry, the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Federal Bailiff Service, the Federal Tax Service and the Prosecutor General's Office.
Vladimir Putin signed the law imposing restrictions on Russians who have left the country. It applies to people convicted under any criminal article, as well as under certain administrative ones, including discrediting the army, violating legislation on foreign agents and participating in undesirable organizations.
The document provides for 14 types of restrictions. Convicted emigrants will have their accounts and property blocked and will be barred from taking out loans, obtaining new foreign passports through consulates, registering apartments and cars, and receiving many government services online. The authorities will also be able to block registration as an individual entrepreneur or self-employed person.
Income received by such citizens will be transferred to a special ruble account, limiting access to the funds for as long as the restrictions remain in force.
Sviridenko stressed that the restrictions will be lifted once the sentence has been served, and the person must be removed from the public register.
Lawyer Valeria Vetoshkina previously said such measures were unlikely to make emigrants return to Russia, The Moscow Times reported. In her view, the law may be applied primarily against prominent people persecuted for political reasons. Yevgeny Smirnov, a lawyer at First Department, believes the new rules will hit especially hard those who still have property or sources of income in the country.