Russian activists assail government treason bill
Wed Dec 17, 7:50 am ET
MOSCOW – Russian rights activists say that a new law drafted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Cabinet would allow authorities to label any government critic a traitor.
The draft extends the definition of treason from breaching Russia's external security to damage to the nation's constitutional order, sovereignty or territorial integrity.
A group of prominent rights activists, including head of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alexeyeva and head of Civic Assistance Svetlana Gannushkina, said in a statement Wednesday that passage of the bill would return the nation's justice system to the times of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's purges.
The government systematically rolled back Russia's post-Soviet political freedoms during Putin's eight-year presidential tenure.
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And from Russia / Putin, we waste our time listening to them lecture us on ... anything.
Bush and his - looking into souls. Please. Russia is ever more the resurrection of an earlier time. We all see it, not as bad, not as insidious ... yet, but it is happening, and some misguided, naive individuals in this country want to cut the military. You are begging for a military confrontation that you arenot prepared to stand up to.
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