“On the Internet / Telegrams, a discussion has resumed about how to deal with traitors who have gone over to the enemy and want their Fatherland to perish,” he wrote on Telegram.

We are talking about those who recently considered themselves "to the so-called intellectual elite," Medvedev said.

A serious conversation on this topic began and "between the chiefs," the official said.

According to him, the question is how to act: “according to the law” or “justice”.

“We have to clarify.

Of course, only by law.

But if the law does not work or does not reach the goal, then according to the special rules of wartime.

Let us recall the experience of the Great Patriotic War, and other countries as well.

In times of war, there have always been such special rules.

And quiet groups of impeccably inconspicuous people who effectively perform them, ”concluded the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council.

State Duma deputy Sultan Khamzaev said earlier that he plans to apply to the Investigative Committee with a request to initiate a criminal case against actor Artur Smolyaninov, who in a recent interview claimed that if he had participated in the conflict in Ukraine, he would have fought on the side of Kyiv.