![]() |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
|
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.* SEE ALSO: WTF? Russia bans swearing in jails 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... More about Vladimir Putin, World, Russia, and Moscow |
|
|