Comments by "R Johansen" (@rjohansen9486) on "Rebellion Against Zelenksy Regime? Ukraine Pres Sacks Envoy To UK After Minister's Resignation" video.
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@biancaenera2500 Wiki: Although Russia's regions enjoy a degree of autonomous self-government, the election of regional governors was substituted by direct appointment by the president in 2005.
Russia has suffered democratic backsliding during Putin's and Medvedev's tenures. Freedom House has listed Russia as being "not free" since 2005.
The Economist Intelligence Unit has rated Russia as "authoritarian" since 2011, whereas it had previously been considered a "hybrid regime" (with "some form of democratic government" in place) as late as 2007. The Russian Federation states itself that Russia is a democratic federal law-bound state with a republican form of government, which has been proven of not being acted upon today. Political scientist Larry Diamond, stated in 2015 "no serious scholar would consider Russia today a democracy"
Natalia Arno, former head of the International Republican Institute's operations in Russia, describes elections in Russia's "managed democracy" thusly,
Political actors who support the president are permitted to put their name on the ballot and to nominally run against him, but whenever a person arose who actually wanted to challenge the system, they always ran into bureaucratic barriers.
Maybe the Central Election Commission would find a problem with the signatures that the candidate collected in order to register, or maybe the candidate would be charged with a crime based on questionable evidence, but something would always happen”.
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@alphabogeyman7462 "how many priests have been arrest by Putin?."
Ioann Burdin is a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Russian village of Karabanovo in the Kostroma region. During one of his sermons, he announced that he would pray for the war's end. According to him, however, that was not the point of his sermon. "It is a deeper call to people to retain humanity in their hearts; so that they do not feel hatred for either Ukrainians, Russians or the Americans."
Furthermore, the priest did not want to comment on the speech of the Russian Patriarch Kirill. Burdin: "I will die and stand before God. The Patriarch will not answer God for me. I will answer for myself, for what I did and said. The same applies to the Patriarch: he will appear before God, and I will not be responsible for him, but he himself."
Burdin's statements, however, led to his arrest. He was summoned to the police station, heard and charged with "discrediting" Russia's war in Ukraine, Dagen reports. The new law made it illegal to question the Russian invasion. Violating this legislation can lead to imprisonment or a fine.
@alphabogeyman7462 , do you need more examples??
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@neverknowsbest2879 So all these cases are a bluff?: Do you guys really know nothing??
F.Times: Russian law bans journalists from calling Ukraine conflict a 'war' or an 'invasion'.
In order to control what the Russian public knows about invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that imposes stiff sentences on journalists who air "false information."
Journalists could be jailed for up to 15 years.
Standing in the metal cage of a Siberian courtroom, Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko this week closed her trial, triggered by a social media post about the war in Ukraine, by dismissing the entire process as a sham.
“What is happening to our country? If there’s a war, call it a war,” she told the judge. The next day, Ponomarenko, a mother of two, was sentenced to six years, becoming the first journalist imprisoned under Russia’s tough new censorship laws, which include a ban on the word “war”.
Across Russia, hundreds of other cases related to antiwar speech and protests are now going through the courts, making the past 12 months the worst period for political repression in the country’s modern history.
Around 20,000 people were detained for political and antiwar protests last year, according to human rights group OVD-Info. Most were held only for short stints and issued a minor offence, but receiving a second leaves them open to as much as a five-year jail term.
At least 440 people — artists, priests, teachers, students and doctors — have had criminal cases opened against them, according to OVD-Info. Many are awaiting trial in jail, and some face sentences of up to 15 years. Others have fled the country.
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@pp38pp There are a ton of examples of persecution of both opposition and freedom of speech, can't name them all. It would take a year!
F.Times: Russian law bans journalists from calling Ukraine conflict a 'war' or an 'invasion'.
In order to control what the Russian public knows about invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that imposes stiff sentences on journalists who air "false information."
Journalists could be jailed for up to 15 years.
Standing in the metal cage of a Siberian courtroom, Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko this week closed her trial, triggered by a social media post about the war in Ukraine, by dismissing the entire process as a sham.
“What is happening to our country? If there’s a war, call it a war,” she told the judge. The next day, Ponomarenko, a mother of two, was sentenced to six years, becoming the first journalist imprisoned under Russia’s tough new censorship laws, which include a ban on the word “war”.
Across Russia, hundreds of other cases related to antiwar speech and protests are now going through the courts, making the past 12 months the worst period for political repression in the country’s modern history.
Around 20,000 people were detained for political and antiwar protests last year, according to human rights group OVD-Info. Most were held only for short stints and issued a minor offence, but receiving a second leaves them open to as much as a five-year jail term.
At least 440 people — artists, priests, teachers, students and doctors — have had criminal cases opened against them, according to OVD-Info. Many are awaiting trial in jail, and some face sentences of up to 15 years. Others have fled the country.
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