Secretary of the Russian Security Council Patrushev has called for sending unreliable teenagers to camps, Putin has proposed giving the Investigative Committee the power of judicial expertise, a book critical of the Communist Party of China is to be banned in St. Petersburg, and a former bodyguard of Akhmat Kadyrov has died in a Russian colony. All of this is just the «cherry on top» of the news coming out of Putin’s Russia every day.
Thus, the country’s top leadership is seriously concerned about «the manipulation of minors’ minds through social networks,» and measures are planned to combat this, not only by filtering traffic, but also by sending young people «inclined to commit crimes» to military-patriotic camps, Lenta.Ru reported. The criteria for identifying such inclinations, on what basis those who have them but have not committed any crimes will be sent, and what kind of camps they will be sent to, have not yet been reported. However, we would like to remind you that after young people began to participate more and more often in protest actions, which in the context of Putin’s Russia can be called «crimes», teachers were ordered to carry out work in schools to neutralize such feelings. As part of this work, those who are «inclined» will undoubtedly be identified and may be sent to learn to «love the motherland,» in other words, to re-education camps like those in China.
Speaking of China, against the backdrop of recent Russian news, it should come as no surprise that the St. Petersburg Prosecutor’s Office is demanding the banning of the book «Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,» written and published by Chinese dissidents. As we reported earlier, Chinese diplomats have already interfered in the activities of Russian media, demanding that critical materials about China not be published, which clearly illustrates how «independent» Putin’s Russia is today. Now, presumably at the request of senior Chinese comrades, the authorities are beginning to ban literature critical of them on Russian territory.
And now it will be even easier to ban. According to Putin’s draft law, the Investigative Committee of Russia will be included in the list of federal agencies authorized to establish state forensic institutions. In other words, a completely closed circle: the Investigative Committee accuses of committing a crime, it conducts an investigation of its own accusation, the only thing left is to give it the right to make decisions based on its own accusations. But let’s be realistic — this has been happening for a long time, given the lack of independent forensic expertise and independent courts in Putin’s Russia.
But it is naive to hope that all that is happening will only affect ordinary mortals, and that they, like «gods,» will be immune to it. Such «gods» certainly exist in Putin’s Russia, but the arrests of regime officials, including high-ranking ones, that have begun due to the drying up of the regime’s resource base are significantly narrowing their circle. Not to mention the cogs in the executive branch. Recently, a former officer of Akhmad Kadyrov’s security service, Ayub Tuntuyev, who had repeatedly complained of torture, died in the Vladimir region’s Correctional Colony No. 6. Apparently, when he was no longer needed, they remembered his participation in armed resistance before joining Akhmat Kadyrov’s service and convicted him as a participant in an illegal armed group. What happens to such people in Russian colonies is well known.
These are the most characteristic news about the Russian «Big Brother» and its relationship with the Chinese «Big Brother», which could go on for a long time.