Russia has been creating a war threat from The West for at least the past year. There is the Russian Speaking People thing, the registration dual citizens and now there is the idea Russia is under threat for attack. I worry about Russia's potential for being stupid about war, but, I worry more about the people of Russia and the potential for human rights violations.
September 19, 2014
...The measure (click here) is aimed at strengthening the Russian segment of the World Wide Web (Runet). A special internet administration could be put in place to be able to cut off Russia from the global network in order to avert any breaches in its work in the event of an “unfriendly attack”.
That is not about being permanently cut off , the providers say, but how the equipment could be aligned, so that it could be rapidly shut down in the event of an emergency situation..
Such emergency situations would include any military activities against the country or any serious mass protests within the country, says one of the newspaper’s sources. He gave Egypt as an example, which cut off the internet and cellular phone communication during its mass disturbances in 2011.
The second issue to be discussed is the policy of shifting responsibility for the administration of domains to the state from its current administrator, which is currently a public organization: “The Coordination Center for TLD RU, RF (top national domains)”.
The purpose of this move is to protect the Russian Internet from being forcibly isolated by the US, in the event that Washington wants to cut Russia from the IP-address system.
Presidential press-secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the meeting of the Security Council is scheduled for Monday, September 22. However he did not specify what issues are set to be discussed, as part of the agenda of similar meetings has, as a rule, been closed to the public....
If any group of Russians have the potential to carry dual citizens it would be the oligarchs.
March 31, 2014
If any group of Russians have the potential to carry dual citizens it would be the oligarchs.
March 31, 2014
Lawmakers (click here) have prepared two bills that forbid senior state officials having dual citizenship and make it a criminal offence to conceal one.
State Duma deputy Aleksey Kazakov of the Fair Russia caucus submitted the bill banning foreign citizenship for “all officials whose position allows making decisions considering Russia’s sovereignty and national security”, their spouses and underage children. They would also be banned from possessing permanent residence permits in foreign countries or any documents allowing permanent residence.
On the same day MP Sergey Ivanov of the nationalist party LDPR submitted a bill which makes any Russian criminally responsible for concealing their foreign citizenship.
When presenting his draft Ivanov said that the constitutional right to obtain foreign citizenship without rejecting the Russian one will remain. Life will become more difficult only for those Russians who face certain restrictions concerning foreign citizenship – mainly those who work in secret spheres but also those who run for various political posts....
Some of the people most capable of running for office in Russia, is the wealthy. Not that, but, when language such as "work in secret spheres" is introduced to the Russian paranoia about the larger world, it provides a platform to arrest anyone that can be labeled with such interests. There is every reason to believe Russia politics will become danger in the near future.
...Another move was the law that obliged all non-government organizations that received foreign sponsorship and were engaged in political projects to register as foreign agents....
When presenting his draft Ivanov said that the constitutional right to obtain foreign citizenship without rejecting the Russian one will remain. Life will become more difficult only for those Russians who face certain restrictions concerning foreign citizenship – mainly those who work in secret spheres but also those who run for various political posts....
Some of the people most capable of running for office in Russia, is the wealthy. Not that, but, when language such as "work in secret spheres" is introduced to the Russian paranoia about the larger world, it provides a platform to arrest anyone that can be labeled with such interests. There is every reason to believe Russia politics will become danger in the near future.
...Another move was the law that obliged all non-government organizations that received foreign sponsorship and were engaged in political projects to register as foreign agents....
