Freedom of speech “made in Russia”

This article is intended to serve as one more cold shower for the hotheads in the sovereignist, anti-globalist, sometimes even anti-Atlanticist camp, who insist on the error of presenting the Moscow political regime as an alternative to the collective West. Some do it out of naivety, others out of political miscalculation, and some have simply assumed the role of mercenaries paid by the Kremlin. However, the glorification of an oligarchic regime, which has usurped power in this country for over a quarter of a century, pushes the anti-globalist camp down a wrong track of false hopes. In other words, the text below can also be seen as a remedy against petty-mindedness, against oneiric thinking in perceiving the realities in this country. I write these lines in total solidarity with the suffering of the Russian people and making a clear distinction between the rulers and the ruled.

Last night, 24.05.2026, I commented on OTV the latest feat of the Russian State Duma (one of the two chambers of parliament), which aims to strangle any critical information from Russian citizens living abroad. The measures are part of the complex action of draconian suppression of freedom of expression in this country. 

Thus, on May 24 this year. The State Duma voted in the second and third reading a series of amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses that surpass any artistic fiction from the famous dystopias. I will carefully reproduce all the proposed amendments that target, as I said, the "relocants", that is, Russians living abroad. And to understand the political and moral nullity of the Russian parliament, I mention the following result of the vote in the third reading: “In the third reading, the bill was supported by 384 deputies, with no votes against or abstentions” (source: RBK). Pay close attention to the downright hallucinatory wording of these tyrannical legislative innovations:

· Article 13.14.1 (illegal obtaining of restricted information);

· Article 13.15 (abuse of freedom of the media);

· Articles 13.36 and 13.37 (violations in the field of dissemination of information, including to children, as well as materials containing incitement to terrorism);

· Article 13.48 (public equating of actions and decisions of the leadership of the USSR with those of Nazi Germany);

· Article 17.13 (violation of the dissemination of information about protected persons);

· Article 19.34 (violation of the procedures for the activities of a foreign agent);

· Parts 3-5 of Article 20.1 (minor hooliganism with special characteristics);

· Article 20.29 (production and distribution of extremist materials).

These changes will come into force on September 1, 2026. 

Commenting on the patriotic vote of the regime’s servants in the legislative assembly in question, the Chairman of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, stated the following: 

“This is about protecting the interests of our country. And those who left and continue to harm the Russian Federation, making insulting statements about the defenders of Russia or discrediting our country, may find themselves without property after the adoption of the proposed law for the third reading.” (source: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/26/05/2026/)

These legislative amendments must be correlated with other innovations adopted by the “voting machine” of the Presidential Administration, the State Duma, which are primarily aimed at suppressing any criticism of the regime’s military actions on the territory of Ukraine. If someone says that this slaughter should be stopped, or on the contrary, that those who lead the army are unable to achieve tangible results on the battlefield, or those at the front complain about the lack of ammunition, equipment, sufficient food, or the mothers and wives of those at the front demand that their men be returned home, etc., etc. for all this, the regime has provided for penalties of up to 7 (seven) years of deprivation of liberty. I quote below Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code, entitled as follows:

"1. Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the purpose of protecting the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens, maintaining international peace and security, exercising powers by state bodies of the Russian Federation, providing assistance by volunteer formations, organizations or individuals in fulfilling the tasks assigned to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation or the troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation.

2. Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the purposes of protecting the interests of the Russian Federation and its citizens, maintaining international peace and security, including public appeals to prevent the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for the aforementioned purposes or to discredit the exercise by state bodies of the Russian Federation of their powers outside the territory of the Russian Federation for the aforementioned purposes, and also resulting in the death by negligence and (or) harm to the health of citizens, property, mass violations of public order and (or) public safety or the creation of obstacles to the functioning or cessation of the functioning of life-support facilities, transport or social infrastructure, credit institutions, energy facilities, industry or communications, shall be punishable by a fine in the amount of three hundred thousand to one million rubles or in the amount of the salary or other income of the convicted person on for a term of three to five years or by imprisonment for a term of up to seven years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for the same period”.

(source:https://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_10699/1aa9268e7d3bd57bcbd46a3016641c5af64b9c87/)

That is, after undertaking a military adventure on the territory of Ukraine that has already resulted in an estimated minimum of one and a half million human lives on both sides, plus at least fifteen million Ukrainian refugees and massive destruction of the infrastructure of both countries, having a critical opinion about the actions of the political power represents a particularly serious crime.

This is what the “crime of opinion” looks like in Russia today. In fact, a fairly large number of people who were imprudent enough to post something on a social network or redistribute an opinion that does not conform to the “party line” are already being thrown into prison. And the conditions of detention are no milder than during the Soviet regime. 

In addition to the above, it is also worth remembering that recently the Kremlin regime has blocked all applications that allowed the circulation of information and, implicitly, the exposure of critical attitudes towards the rulers, such as YouTube, WatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, etc., these being replaced with the MAX application, controlled and censored by the state, but more precisely by Sergei Kirienko (Israitel), no. 2 in the Presidential Administration and no. 1 in promoting technocratic tyranny. Here is the summary information about the digital mega-project that imposes total control over private life in Russia:

”MAX is a Kremlin-backed, multifunctional instant messaging "super-app" developed by VK. Positioned as a state-mandated alternative to foreign platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, it combines messaging, digital ID verification, document signing, and mobile payments”. 

So, welcome to the Brave New World! The replacement of the democratic political-legal facade with the digital GULAG is also in full swing in mother Russia. 

Also take into account the increasingly frequent and increasingly extensive disconnection, sometimes for several days, of the internet in cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg and others under the pretext of defense against Ukrainian drones. This is also a measure to block the circulation of alternative information. 

In the same vein, the Ministry of Truth is always on the alert, and Big Brother is constantly watching you. Thus, using the eternal strategy of tension (the interminable and strange (non)war in Ukraine), the Moscow regime is fully establishing technocratic tyranny. And just like in the US, the EU and pretty much everywhere else, the pretext is ensuring the security of citizens.

So, nothing new for those who have a big picture and understand the purpose of false flag operations such as Operation GLADIO, 9/11, the "war on terror" pLandemic Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and those in the Middle East. Their purpose is first of all to provoke a state of shock, panic, insecurity, and using the "shock doctrine" to impose tyrannical measures under the pretext of protecting citizens. That is, our fundamental freedoms are taken away in exchange for the alleged safety. We saw this after the "inside job" of September 11, 2001 through the adoption of the "Patriot Act" of October 26, 200, which established a regime of generalized surveillance of American citizens under the pretext of combating terrorism.

Here, in Russia, too, the imposition of digital imprisonment is taking place at an accelerated pace precisely under the pretext of “demilitarizing and denazifying” Ukraine. And the Kiev regime is taking the same measures to establish a satanic technocracy, as in the country with which it is at war. 

Once again, I invite the readers of this text to give up the false dichotomies and the horse-drawn glasses that offer a certain psychological comfort to those who still hope that there would be any state free from the control of the globalist plutocracy, which has joined forces with the moguls of Silicon Valley in the effort to enslave humanity through the means of high technology.

The maneuver is terribly effective. While we position ourselves in belligerent camps "horizontally", both in the domestic political game (allowing ourselves to be antagonized by the parties) and in the international one (being on the wave of the two camps, USA/NATO/EU versus Russia/China/BRICS), the technocratic oligarchy enslaves us "vertically" through technical methods in a war fought with non-military weapons, but with a much greater efficiency of destroying humanity than classical weapons.

P.S.: I cannot refrain from commenting on a point of the recent amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses in Russia of enormous significance. It unquestionably exposes the essence of “Putinism” as a state ideology of a neo-Soviet nature, the task of which is to preserve and glorify the communist regime, the figures of such monsters as Lenin, Stalin and others from the cohort of “red demons”, who are guilty of a real genocide against the Russian people. By the way, to understand the immense tragedy of the Russian people after the Bolshevik coup of 1917, it would be enough to translate into several languages ​​​​the latest work of the writer and political activist Boris Mironov “The Burden of the Dead: How the Russian People Was Reforged” (https://www.ozon.ru/product/bremya-mertvyh-kak-perekovali-russkiy-narod-mironov-boris-sergeevich).

The new provision I refer to below should wake up from their reverie those who still daydream, seeing today's Russia as a country that defends traditional values, Orthodoxy, Russian culture, etc. I recall this phrase: Article 13.48 (public equating the actions and decisions of the USSR leadership with those of Nazi Germany).

Now it becomes clearer why in Russia after 1991 there has been no trial of communism, why the demonic mummy of the most monstrous political figure of the last century, Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin), continues to lie in the mausoleum on Red Square, emanating paralyzing energies on the Russian people. And why the names of the criminals guilty of the murder and imprisonment in the GULAG of many tens of millions of people are carried by cities, regions, streets, public squares, etc., why monuments to Lenin and Stalin grow everywhere like mushrooms after the rain. But also why the Putin regime assumes all the territorial expansions committed by the USSR over time, all the robberies committed in relation to the peoples of Europe and beyond.

Returning to that perfidious formulation, it is worth noting that its authors specifically aim to rehabilitate Soviet power and, implicitly, the "liberating role" of the Red Army, which also made us Romanians happy several times, in 1940 and, later, in 1944. In other words, Nazism is to be condemned (that's what the victors established), and communism is not even allowed to be criticized, let alone equated with the former.

Simply put, the clique usurping state power in Russia is Bolshevik in essence, representing a disgusting amalgam of communist nostalgia and capitalist greed, which transformed the former nomenclature and its cronies into billionaires holding key positions in the Russian State. We could use here an ad hoc political term that would perfectly characterize the identity profile of the Kremlin administration: Sovieto-liberalism. The cult of Soviet Power combined with greed as the engine of the liberal economic system.

I'll end with the icing on the cake. Did you know that the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation currently has over 10,000 book titles on its index? That is, banned, withdrawn from circulation, removed from libraries and from sale. I assume that this figure far exceeds the list of books banned under the communist regime. 

Now that you have learned the truth, how will you look at the "dissidents" on duty, who seem so happy when they are invited with pomp to the Russian embassy, ​​courted by Sputnik radio or the Russia Today TV channel? Everyone is free to decide which of them are simply deceived, and which are mercenaries receiving discreet payment from their "comrades". 

Dixi.