webfact Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 New Russian anti-terrorist law sparks sharp criticismBy Robert HackwillMOSCOW: -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law an anti-terrorist bill that has been fiercely criticised both at home and abroad for offering huge powers to the security services and administration.The Russian opposition, some businesses, human rights organisations, mobile phone operators and internet providers add the law is far too vague and open to abuse.Other critics say it smacks of a return to darker times.“There are certain articles in this law that take us directly back to the laws of Stalin, notably the lowering of the age of penal responsibility to 14. Under Stalin you could face a firing squad aged 12. How can you punish people this age? We should be saving them from punishment,” says Historian and Journalist Nikolai Svanidze.Supporters of the legislation insist it is an appropriate Russian law for Russian people and will crack down on incitements to violence and fascism.“This law reinforces the feeling of fear and goes in absolutely the opposite direction from reinforcing civil activity. So either we foster civil society or we foster fear, which weakens civil activity and citizens are steered away from citizenship. This law has no relevance to terrorism and the fight against it, unfortunately!” adds Svanidze.One provision is that phone companies store all information for up to three years, and they complain the cost of this will be very expensive and could force some to the wall. -- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-07-08 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usernames Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 What the hell, the Russians are used to living under the likes of Ivan the Terrible and Stalin. Let them be. The world was a better place when they were behind their Iron Curtain. I wish Putin would put them behind a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
car720 Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 well, love him or hate him but he gets the job done. A bit like Saddam. I once had a Russian girlfriend and I asked her to describe Russian men in one word. She said, ................."remorseless." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALLSEEINGEYE Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Sum Num Na, the Russians love this psycho so let them live with what they asked for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitker Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Sum Num Na, the Russians love this psycho so let them live with what they asked for. Except those laws are meant to target precisely the minority that doesn't love him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggt Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Do these critics of the New Russian anti-terrorist law have a better solution...please step forward and give us your best shot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwiken Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Sum Num Na, the Russians love this psycho so let them live with what they asked for. Yes they seem to like him. They admire he seems to represent manly Russian values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughing Gravy Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Well they can always vote him out the next time eh? But it would seem the majority love him, So why are people moaning and complaining. Personally he has his faults but at least he seems patriotic even though corrupt to the core and hates the west. He does seem to have some more backbone than western leaders.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexStepashkin Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 He just signed it, law itself was prepared by other uneducated people. I hope this law package would be reconsidered, as at the moment it can't be executed properly on the tech side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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