[goldstategop]

Russia has now amended the federal criminal code to introduce criminal sanctions for the rehabilitation of Nazism, effective from Wednesday, May 7, 2014.

Fines and prison terms are contemplated for violation of the new law. Freedom of speech has clear limits in Russia.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Freedom of speech has clear limits in Russia.

Considering all the dead and beaten journalists and editors, news organizations closed down or taken over, with Russian "journalists" receiving awards from Putin for "objectivity," and then go on and have interviews wherein they declare "propaganda" as a legitimate form of "journalism," and this new journalism as an "effective weapon" for their cause, what was your first hint that there are "limits," extreme ones, on freedom of speech in Russia?

[Nifster]

Ah the communists find a new way for the thought police to throw people into the gulag

[melsec]

Is Putin a Democrat? Unlike Democrats he just doesn’t point out and scream at everyone he says is a Nazi he jails them! Coming soon to a Democrat Party near you?

[Freelance Warrior]

Freedom of speech has clear limits in Russia.

This is true. But, to my mind, freedom of speech must go with a certain responsibility for spoken words.

[grania]

What Russia is saying here is that if there's any talk of restoring Nazism in Russia, those who do so will be fined and thrown in jail.

I suspect if Ukrainians came to visit relatives around here and in public advocated forming right wing Nazi type militias to enforce the law, it would be labeled gang activity and they'd be thrown in jail.

[RedHeeler]

Wow. Now, socialist fascism is a crime, in the USSR? If Germanic borne? Good grief. The ant keepers- know, no bound.

[DTA]

In the United Nations, U.S. Canada and Ukraine voted AGAINST U.N. resolution to ban promotion of Nazism.

200 000 Americans who died in WWII are turning in their graves.

Die Fahne Hoch flies high in Washington, DC.