http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/wo.../28russia.html
MOSCOW — Russian lawmakers are considering extending new powers to the F.S.B., the successor to the Soviet-era K.G.B., allowing its officers to summon citizens and issue verbal or written warnings that their activities are “unacceptable” and leading toward a crime, even if no violation has occurred.
...would also impose fines or 15-day jail terms on citizens who did not comply with demands made by the F.S.B., or Federal Security Service.
Issued at a moment of high anxiety about terrorism, the proposals could strengthen the agency’s ability to control information or activities considered “extremist,” a term that has been applied to religious and political groups as well as to journalists.
The note contends that print and electronic media “openly facilitate the formation of negative processes in the spiritual sphere, propagate the cult of individualism, violence and mistrust in the government’s ability to protect its citizens, in effect drawing youth to extremist acts.”
The proposal recalls a practice of “official warning” that the K.G.B. frequently employed against dissidents.
“In the Soviet times, there really were warnings issued for anti-Soviet activity. But even then, the warnings were delivered only by prosecutors. Now, they spit on all that. Any citizen can be called an extremist for taking a public position, for political activity. A warning can be given to anyone who criticizes the powers that be. If you print this interview, they will announce that Ilyukhin is an extremist.”
Propagating the cult of individualism, in MY Russia???
MOSCOW — Russian lawmakers are considering extending new powers to the F.S.B., the successor to the Soviet-era K.G.B., allowing its officers to summon citizens and issue verbal or written warnings that their activities are “unacceptable” and leading toward a crime, even if no violation has occurred.
...would also impose fines or 15-day jail terms on citizens who did not comply with demands made by the F.S.B., or Federal Security Service.
Issued at a moment of high anxiety about terrorism, the proposals could strengthen the agency’s ability to control information or activities considered “extremist,” a term that has been applied to religious and political groups as well as to journalists.
The note contends that print and electronic media “openly facilitate the formation of negative processes in the spiritual sphere, propagate the cult of individualism, violence and mistrust in the government’s ability to protect its citizens, in effect drawing youth to extremist acts.”
The proposal recalls a practice of “official warning” that the K.G.B. frequently employed against dissidents.
“In the Soviet times, there really were warnings issued for anti-Soviet activity. But even then, the warnings were delivered only by prosecutors. Now, they spit on all that. Any citizen can be called an extremist for taking a public position, for political activity. A warning can be given to anyone who criticizes the powers that be. If you print this interview, they will announce that Ilyukhin is an extremist.”
Propagating the cult of individualism, in MY Russia???
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