Putin calls for Web activities of some firms to be monitored
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[QUOTE]MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the Russian authorities should monitor the activity of “some companies” on social media during next year’s presidential election and assess the extent of their involvement in domestic politics.
He did not name the companies or say if he was concerned about the activities of foreign or local firms, but Russia has been accused by the United States and other Western nations of meddling in their elections.
“We need to look carefully at how some companies work in internet, in social media, and how widely they are involved in our domestic political life,” Putin said, speaking at a meeting with leaders in Russia’s parliament about a new “foreign agents” law.
Putin signed a law last month allowing the authorities to designate foreign media outlets as “foreign agents” in response to what Moscow said was unacceptable U.S. pressure on Russian media. Once designated, such firms need to provide details to the authorities on, for example, their sources of funding.
“It should be carefully analyzed how they are operating and will be operating during the presidential election,” he said, but said this should not “narrow the space” for freedom on the Internet.
Russia has already designated Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Voice of America (VOA), both U.S.-backed organizations, as “foreign agents”.
Polls show Putin, 65, who has dominated Russia’s political landscape for the last 17 years, on course to be comfortably re-elected in March, 2018, making him eligible to serve another six years until 2024, when he turns 72.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was barred on Monday from running in next year’s presidential election after officials ruled he was ineligible to take part due to a suspended prison sentence he says was trumped up.[/QUOTE]
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Kind of frightening how openly corrupt the Russians are
[QUOTE=Persecution;53005355]Kind of frightening how openly corrupt the Russians are[/QUOTE]
*The Russian government
[QUOTE=Persecution;53005355]Kind of frightening how openly corrupt the Russians are[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Funion;53005421]*The Russian government[/QUOTE]
It's soo corrupt it kinda goes over maximum affordable number and shifts back to zero.
Like when corrupt FSB agents arrests corrupt minister for getting too greedy with them, soo they give him a bribe that he took confident in their corruption but in fact it was all a scheme by his corrupt colleagues to take possesion of his assets and power he achieved through other corrupt means.
And they probably will get arrested next and cycle goes on.
That and the fact that despite all l33t hacklords appearance most of official goverment internet censorship structures are money drains that hardly can block anything besides direct links to website.
Freedom through Corruption and Inefficiency, yey.
[QUOTE=karimatrix;53006305]It's soo corrupt it kinda goes over maximum affordable number and shifts back to zero.
Like when corrupt FSB agents arrests corrupt minister for getting too greedy with them, soo they give him a bribe that he took confident in their corruption but in fact it was all a scheme by his corrupt colleagues to take possesion of his assets and power he achieved through other corrupt means.
And they probably will get arrested next and cycle goes on.
That and the fact that despite all l33t hacklords appearance most of official goverment internet censorship structures are money drains that hardly can block anything besides direct links to website.
Freedom through Corruption and Inefficiency, yey.[/QUOTE]
Nuclear Ganhdi of corruption
[QUOTE=karimatrix;53006305]Freedom through Corruption and Inefficiency, yey.[/QUOTE]
There's an old saying that goes "The strictness of Russian laws is compensated by the non-requirement of complying with them"
[QUOTE=lexus04;53006336]There's an old saying that goes "The strictness of Russian laws is compensated by the non-requirement of complying with them"[/QUOTE]
Until they decide they don't like you, and then you're fucked.
Did Russia ever have a "good" government? Maybe the duma before the revolution but I don't know.
[QUOTE=TheBorealis;53007127]Did Russia ever have a "good" government? Maybe the duma before the revolution but I don't know.[/QUOTE]
That depends on what you consider "good".
And before what revolution? If before 1917 - fuck no, this was a shitty time to live (if you make a short version of what happened - basically a few angry people, who couldn't even buy some bread, managed to overthrow Nickolas II just by asking him).
If before 1991 - it was hard, sure, but what followed was even worse.
I think I read that before Nicholas II was deposed, he tried to appease the people by creating a legislative body called the duma. That timeframe.
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