Posted on 09/08/2014 1:54:30 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
Russia has reopened 25-year-old cases that may lead to criminal charges against young people who refused to serve in the Soviet army in 1990-1991, shows a request for legal assistance received by the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.en.delfi.lt ...
“the Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office”
Should respond:
“The Soviet what?”
"We have received such request for legal assistance. As the activities, which Russia lists among criminal deeds, is not criminalized in Lithuania, the request for legal assistance will not be processed," Vilma Mažonė of the Prosecutor General's Office told BNS.Stuff it, Ivan.
Estonian security officer kidnapped, Lithuanian govt receives request for prosecution...
Next up...Latvia
Things must be really going to hell in a hand basket inside Russia for them to get this provocative.
Just drop the price of oil 10 bucks a barrel and tell Pooty-Poot it keeps dropping until he stops getting stupid.
The worrisome thing is what/who comes after Putin. Bet it’s a raging nationalist.
What a bunch of D-bags.
What’s next? Germany trying to collect delinquent taxes from Ostmark?
Thank you for the post. I honestly didn’t remember the kidnapping, and it was only a few days ago (I am tired ans stressed).
The problem is that we have an Uber-Communist running foreign policy, and America is the only thing he hates more than cost efficient energy.
They would be kinda old, by now....................
If the Lithuanians correctly file Putin’s lunatic request in the circular file, will he again dispatch his kidnappers?
Not for conscription, for prosecution.
Who’s gonna stop him?
It will be somewhat harder there for dirtbag Vlad to pretend his crap is local.
Russians can still make trouble for those Lithuanians. It is not the first time they have been abusing Interpol red notice system and even European countries have fallen for it.
http://euobserver.com/justice/121207
When Petr Silaev, a Russian journalist, got political asylum in Finland in April 2012 after escaping a crackdown in his home country, he felt safe and began a new life.
But in August the same year, he found himself handcuffed and shoved face-down on the floor of a police car on a seven-hour trip from Granada, Spain, where he went on holiday, to a detention centre in Madrid, where he risked extradition.
“The Spanish police treated me in a mind-breaking way … They kept saying: ‘You’ll be deported.’ They kept abusing me, saying: ‘You’re a Russian terrorist’,” he told EUobserver.
http://news.err.ee/v/politics/b8639300-0770-4998-90e4-135e8df50b44
With 24 hours to go before local elections, a notice depicting IRL politician Eerik-Niiles Kross and saying that he was wanted by Russia for “prosecution/to serve a sentence” appeared on Interpol’s site late yesterday.
Contrary to initial reports, it is the first time the notice has showed up, although the Russian warrant it is based on goes back to 2012 and has been widely considered not to be credible.
The Center Party seized on the story, with political secretary Mailis Reps saying that Russia’s interest in questioning Kross over an incident where a ship was said to have been seized left a stigma on Kross and anyone who associated with him.
And party chairman Edgar Savisaar, whose Tallinn mayor post is being challenged by Kross, told Postimees it could even precipitate a government crisis. “How can Prime Minister Andrus Ansip continue with a government whose interior and defense ministers belong to a party that has put an international fugitive on its coat of arms in Tallinn?” Savisaar asked.
But the context - Kross has made sizable gains in the polls in recent weeks following a high-profile campaign, and the incumbent Center Party, still poised to win a majority of seats on Tallinn’s city council, has close ties to the Russian Federation’s ruling party - is leading many to dismiss the reappearance of the ad as a provocation.
It was also reported last week that members of a pro-Moscow group participated in organizing a recent Center Party demonstration in Tallinn.
Interesting. Another drawback to countries surrendering sovereignty and decision-making to EU bodies, INTERPOL, etc.
Interpol red notice system does not work well, but the decision to arrest or extradite is still in the prevue of the host countries. The police in these cases was just too lazy to check properly.
In fact it is a symbolic reciprocal act as Estonia opened such cases against Russians who served in Estonia at that period of time.
It was a reason behind a travel ban for all Russian military and security personnel a few months ago.
They could have mentioned it in this article if it wasn’t just a piece of agitprop.
The Evil Empire is back!
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