Posted on 02/14/2024 9:49:29 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
Associated Press — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law Wednesday that will allow authorities to confiscate money, valuables and other assets from people convicted of spreading “deliberately false information” about the country’s military.
The bill sailed through the lower and upper houses of the Russian parliament, and was unanimously endorsed by the upper house last week.
The speaker of the lower house, Vyacheslav Volodin, said the measure includes harsher punishment for “traitors who sling mud at our country and our troops” and would “strip those scoundrels of honorary titles, confiscate their assets, money and other valuables.”
Russian officials have used the existing law against “discrediting” the military that covers offenses such as “justifying terrorism” and spreading “fake news” about the armed forces to silence Putin´s critics. Multiple activists, bloggers and ordinary Russians have received long prison terms.
The new confiscation law would also apply to those convicted of publicly inciting “extremist activities” and calling for actions harmful to state security or “discrediting” the armed forces. Discrediting the Russian military became a criminal offense under a law adopted as part of a sweeping government crackdown on dissent after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
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Okay Cornyn.
“Who the hell cares when we have drug traffickers, sex traffickers, Chinese nationalists and potential terrorists crossing open borders? If you’re so damn obsessed with Russia, MOVE THERE. Only a liar or idiot thinks Russia is more of a threat to the US than the politicians allowing open borders.”
So don’t question Ruzzia, look over here! SQUIRREL!!!!
LOL.
This is the Cognitive Dissonance propaganda technique. Probably fits a few other categories as well.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4211213/posts
“Yet more confirmation that Russia continues to suck on the battlefield!”
Hey, wait a second there! Russia’s Navy absolutely DOMINATES the bottom of the Black Sea! No other navy has as many forces occupying the bottom of the Black Sea as does the Great Superpower Ruzzia!!!
Says the Soros cozy-upper.
And Marxist Canada continues to suck in general. But we always appreciate Canadians like you giving us guidance.
10 Days!
And Putin’s “simple 1-month conquest” begins YEAR THREE of Seven
“Special Military Failure” indeed ...
Fixed it for ya.
Cultural genocide: the shameful history of Canada’s residential schools
A Ukrainian neo-Nazi living in Canada obviously can't relate to any of that.
Tell that to all those dead new Uke conscripts being readied to commit forced suicide in Avdeiivka. Either way, they got dead.
All the chest beating you do today will disappear after the retribution for the ship arrives.
None of you knotheads be it Russians or Ukes give a crap about the people dying, you just can never get over the history even if it kills you.
The US, EU, UK just have to have their New World Order and they use Uke knotheads to do the dying for them. Good pick because they chose the right suckers who always carry never ending grudges to fall for it. In the end it will be either Russia, China, or the NWO enslaving Ukraine.
The stupid never ceases. I just don’t want to pay for it when we are being invaded on on home turf.
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Ukraine is far closer to what the Soviet Union was and WE'VE SPENT over $100 billion on it with 22 Republicans voting to give $61 billion more to it.
“Putin Signs Law That Will Confiscate Assets From Critics of Armed Forces”
So people can still be critical of Mother Russia, this shows Putin’s determination to guarantee free expression. :)
Russia bad on human rights. Thanks for the heads up. Otherwise I’d have never known.
Russia still not a bigger threat to the US than our own home grown Zeepers.
You people are insufferable.
He did an interview with a foreign leader. That’s his damned job.
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“Never mind that Ukraine is the country that has banned all opposition parties, banned opposing media outlets, imprisoned opposition leaders, destroyed churches and imprisoned and murdered dissents, including American citizen Gonzalo Lira.”
And... as Bongino is talking about now... Zelensky was in on the framing of Trump....complicit with the DS. He is one of them now.
Oh, piss off. This is AP. Been years since that was reliable past “it is light outside.”
That’s one of the best capsule descriptions on East Europe I’ve seen. Same shyt went on during the Bosnia/Serbia war under Clinton. Populations steeped in hatred.
Isolate them and let them have at it. They just poison everything.
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