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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The only difference between us and Russia is that Russia can do it legally.
The US just does it illegally and nobody who can do anything about it, bothers to stop it.
ROFL!!!
Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.Hmm . . . the fourth plank of communism. And all the propaganda says Puti-put is not one . . .
“It’s good to be king.”
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.
Now do the Canadian truckers. And Germany getting ready to ban AfD and seize bank accounts and passports.
You cozy up to the Biden regime and EU leftists. You are no better. Canada already does this.
It isn’t right no matter who does it.
If this is true because anything coming out of a Zeeper needs further investigation.
Tucker lives rent free in your heads, He is over the target.
Here it will be MAGA soon.
Excellent!
All Homosexuals and Transsexuals and Pedophiles in the US Military should be allowed to seize assets of their critics, now they'll be able to continue doing it Legally.
Putin took a lesson from Trudeau..
“This is the regime that Tucker Carlson cozied up to.”
Yeah, but... the other regime is just as bad. And come to think of it... I don’t see the O’Biden regime as any better. So what’s a self-serving panderer gonna do?
Yea, the law enforcement in this country never seizes citizens property, no sir. Just don’t try traveling with any cash, the police here, in the USA will steal it from you. FREEDOM!!! Lol!
Next door to you? No thanks.
We have a government that spies on it’s citizens, jails political dissidents, controls the media and stifles free speech. So how exactly is Putin dangerous to the U.S. ?
We love seeing you Putin apologists angry and frustrated in the morning
Yet more confirmation that Russia continues to suck on the battlefield!
lol
We love seeing you Putin apologists angry and frustrated in the morning
Yet more confirmation that Russia continues to suck on the battlefield!
lol
Vladimir Putin: Making Russia Soviet Again!
DO NOT GIVE BIDEN ANY IDEAS
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