Russia wants to outlaw bad-mouthing Putin
In a throwback to the Soviet days, a Russian lawmaker is preparing a bill that*would make insulting*the country's president*a*crime punishable by up to six years in prison.*
Roman Khudyakov, a lawmaker from the nationalist LDPR party, decided to put forward*the bill after watching YouTube videos of people bad-mouthing Vladimir Putin, according to the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper.
Khudyakov*said he modeled the bill, titled*"On the protection of the ho**r*and dignity of the President of the Russian Federation" after a 1990 law protecting the leader of the Soviet Union from insults. Read more...
03-16-2016, 08:52 PM
Russia wants to outlaw bad-mouthing Putin
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