Legally there is no penalty for being against the war or against the government. Actually it is the opposite - calling for war or helping to start it might be illegal.
The law punishes for spreading falseful information or discrediting use of armed forces in interests of Russia. For example, for falsefully claiming that special military operation against West-supported neo-nazis preparing an attack against Russia is actually a war or that army allegedly attacks civilian buildings and infrastructure. For this you can get to jail. For the same reason, posting messages like 'no to war' online will get you in legal trouble (and replacing 'war' with asterisks won't help; there was someone who got a fine for holding a poster with asterisks only). Holding Ukranian flag obviously will get you in trouble too although I don't know how exactly this discredits armed forces.
Recently I read that a protester with a poster "arrest me if you are agaisnt the war" was arrested. Better not joke with police.
I assume many countries also have laws against spreading falseful information. And holding Russian flag in many countries might get you arrested as well.
Can provide a link to relevant legislation if needed.
You can read the Moscow Times, an English language newspaper.
They relocated to Amsterdam iirc and is owned by Derk Sauer who was booted out of Russia. He also writes interesting opinion pieces in het Parool about the re Stalinisation of Russia. Fascinating stuff.
Ofcourse I have no idea if the majority of Russians really care- Stalin was very popular.
_visgean|2 years ago
well apart from the from the article on which you are commenitng, you can read this https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/03/russia-studen...
> At the same time - convicted murderers are freed to volunteer to fight against Ukraine and are given state honors
e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/world/europe/wagner-fight...
codedokode|2 years ago
The law punishes for spreading falseful information or discrediting use of armed forces in interests of Russia. For example, for falsefully claiming that special military operation against West-supported neo-nazis preparing an attack against Russia is actually a war or that army allegedly attacks civilian buildings and infrastructure. For this you can get to jail. For the same reason, posting messages like 'no to war' online will get you in legal trouble (and replacing 'war' with asterisks won't help; there was someone who got a fine for holding a poster with asterisks only). Holding Ukranian flag obviously will get you in trouble too although I don't know how exactly this discredits armed forces.
Recently I read that a protester with a poster "arrest me if you are agaisnt the war" was arrested. Better not joke with police.
I assume many countries also have laws against spreading falseful information. And holding Russian flag in many countries might get you arrested as well.
Can provide a link to relevant legislation if needed.
VincentEvans|2 years ago
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-moscow-government-...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ilya-yashin-valdimir-put...
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/dmitry-ivanov-sergei-sm...
Here’s one about Wagner:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1741299/Russia-Wagner-G...
Again, all these are just top results of a google search.
bazoom42|2 years ago
eitland|2 years ago
WeylandYutani|2 years ago
They relocated to Amsterdam iirc and is owned by Derk Sauer who was booted out of Russia. He also writes interesting opinion pieces in het Parool about the re Stalinisation of Russia. Fascinating stuff. Ofcourse I have no idea if the majority of Russians really care- Stalin was very popular.