[cuban leaf]

...or to the health of the population.

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So much for McDonald’s in Russia.

[Beowulf9]

The ACLU! Oh, in Russia...darn.

[Oliviaforever]

IBTPBLLD

In Before the Putin Boot Licking Lap Dogs.

[wideawake]

Coincidentally, Putin's hero Stalin achieved the height of his domestic power 16 years into his reign as well - right after the victory at Stalingrad when he went on the offensive against Germany.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

We call these Executive Orders. It makes totalitarianism more efficient, without all those messy political votes.

[DesertRhino]

“allow the government to label as “undesirable” — in effect, to outlaw — any foreign or international organizations deemed a threat to the “defensive capabilities or security of the state, to the public order, or to the health of the population.”

If foreign and international orgs are working to change a nations government, or to spread homosexuality (the biggest goal) it would seem natural to ban them.
For example, I want the UN banned here. And I would support Kenya banning American NGOs and government state dept types who are working to spread homosexuality.

But I guess now foreigners have a right to undermine the stability and morals of their host. I wish we had a similar law.

[dfwgator]

Can we do that here so we can kick out the UN?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

While Putin is going about it in the wrong way, in all fairness, what are the NGOs and foreign organizations he wants to boot out?

There is a very long list of harmful NGOs and other organizations that have made themselves obnoxious around the world:

Anything connected with the leftist billionaires such as George Soros, Teresa Heinz-Kerry, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Tom Steyer, Jim Simons, Michael Bloomberg, etc.

How about banning Planned Parenthood?

[Ohioan]

Forget Putin. Forget the EU. Forget our State Department, which was second only to the former Bolshevik Comintern in meddling in other peoples' internal affairs. (I am specifically referring to our State Department's working to overthrow Conservative Governments, in the days of Dean Rusk, for example; certainly not our actions to help people resist Communist takeovers.)

It is a basic principle of the Law of Nations, all the way back to Vattel, that every nation must be the judge of its own internal affairs.

Repression? What is more repressive than allowing foreign meddlers to undermine your culture?