r/worldnews • u/DownWithAssad • 5d ago

Russia sentences 15-year-old schoolboy to 5 years for criticizing Putin regime and war against Ukraine Russia/Ukraine

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u/KevinsOnTilt 5d ago

Total obedience or you lose your freedom.

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u/SignifigantZebra 5d ago

you dont have freedom in russia.
you are born as an expendible asset to the mafia.

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u/Neat-Opportunity1824 5d ago

Russia is a large gas station between Europe and China, owned by mafia.

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u/Ilovekittens345 5d ago

Sounds amazing! I am voting for his employee Trump! There is nothing more American then bending the knee to Russia! Make America Vassal Again! /s

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u/eat_dick_reddit 5d ago

I just can't understand people in the West looking at Russia and thinking "wow, we need to copy that in our country".

It's a mafia run shithole that would have been gone by now if it didn't have nukes ... there is absolutely nothing positive about Russia at all. Nothing.

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u/MrNobleGas 4d ago

It's quite pretty in some places, so there's that I guess?

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u/Neat-Opportunity1824 4d ago

Yes there are insanely beautiful places in nature. Baikal lake, Ural Mountains, Altai mountains, Kamchatka nature preserve.

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u/MrNobleGas 4d ago

When my family fled Ukraine to get away from the Nazis, my dad's branch settled in Altai, which you mentioned, and my mum's branch in Karelia, which is also like improbably beautiful.

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u/GTACOD 4d ago

They think they'll be the oligarchs or equivlant of their country.

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u/WhatEvenIsHappenin 5d ago

For real though, it’s unbelievable isn’t it

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u/Ilovekittens345 5d ago edited 5d ago

It's like if Hitler campaigned in Israel and tells the rich he is going to boost the economy and make them more rich by building concentration camps and ovens and then he tells the orthodox Jews they were right that the nation of Israel was founded without the approval of the Messiah but guess what He is the messiah and he will finally make the Torah Great Again! And then he wins the elections and starts hanging out with his new buddies in Qatar, all of them hamas and travels to Iran to make a deal to start selling them Israeli nukes all while him and his supporters proudly wear a yellow Judenstar and fly Israeli and Nazi flags hand in hand. And then he publishes the names and addresses of all familly members of the Mossad on twitter and when he finally gets sued for it he shows up in court screaming "I am being persecuted by Jew haters!"

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u/Viper67857 5d ago

And then 74M people vote for him again...

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u/FawnSwanSkin 5d ago

Oh I haven't heard that before, that's good.

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u/Jackbuddy78 5d ago edited 5d ago

I mean they literally had a Democratic government from 1991-2000. Already Corrupt and ineffective which of course led to the return of authoritarian rule. 

It's fucked up but Russians willingly chose dictatorship over democracy. 

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u/Ghost9001 5d ago

The Yeltsin regime was not democratic and free of authoritarianism.

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u/Jackbuddy78 5d ago

It was Democratic for certain, very corrupt but at the end of the day he stepped down because he would have been voted out in 2000. 

Rather give Putin get a shot than have the  Communist Party be elected. 

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u/LinuxF4n 5d ago edited 5d ago

Not to mention he had less than 10% approval rating in 1996 and rigged the 1996 elections with the help of oligarch money (Loans For Shares program) and using CIA assistance. He literally sold out the Russian people's assets for pennies on the dollar. Dude was a traitor to the Russian people. Literally didn't care about his own people and was too busy getting drunk every day.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/22/1087654279/how-shock-therapy-created-russian-oligarchs-and-paved-the-path-for-putin

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u/Masark 5d ago

Yeltsin issued an order to dissolve the parliament which the constitution did not allow him to do

It should be noted that the parliament in question was also trying to start a war with Ukraine.

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u/Jackbuddy78 5d ago

It's more complex than that, when the Soviet Union dissolved elements of the Russian RSFR still existed like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Soviet_of_Russia

It was not technically part of the Russian Federation and Yeltsin demanded they were dissolved so it could be reformed into the State Duma. They refused and called for hos resignation which led to the conflict.

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u/Jackbuddy78 5d ago

Technically a Parliament that does not recognize the country which has the constitution isn't exactly subject to any laws. 

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u/TJ5897 5d ago

Backwards ass western liberal logic. Yeltsin was a drunk traitor who sold out the USSR

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u/NutSoSorry 5d ago

People love to shit on Russians. A lot of brave folks here behind key boards thinking they'd speak out like this 15 year old did. There's a reason people don't speak out. People don't know what it's like to live in a country like Russia but feel free to comment a bunch of horseshjt

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u/southernNJ-123 5d ago

Nobody’s “shitting” on Russians. I think most people genuinely feel sorry for them. They’re stuck. I’ve had a bunch of Russian students who were THE smartest students I’ve ever known.

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u/NutSoSorry 5d ago

Nobody? That's just objectively false. Maybe you aren't, but reddit generally does

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u/Zilskaabe 5d ago

It was a lot better than what they have now.

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u/Dorkseid1687 5d ago

Better than this, literally a fascist mafia state

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u/Dorkseid1687 5d ago

I’m aware of the 90s in Russia. It’s gotten worse

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u/The_Wayward 5d ago

There are a lot of Americans trying to make that same mistake

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u/owls42 5d ago

The GOP is the only party running on a platform of taking away rights. They are the only party in the last 50yrs to come after settled law. They are the exact same as the Russians.

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u/fiduciary420 5d ago

Republicans. Particularly Christian republicans. Call them by their names.

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u/Prestigious-Wolf8039 5d ago

I prefer calling them Christ Nazis. Christian nationalist is too long to type.

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u/LightTrack_ 5d ago

I'm pretty sure this 15-year old did not get a vote on what he "chose as a member of the Russian people".

Just saying. Some people seem to forget that the phrase "people got what they asked for" really translates to "the masses of idiots and bigots won while the decent folk get to live forced to accept that their say means nothing".

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u/Jackbuddy78 5d ago

That's how ot usually goes

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u/desertwanderrr 5d ago

And American's might do the same this year, thanks to Russian carpet-bombing of mendacious bullshit.

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u/Random_frankqito 5d ago

Yeah…. That’s not true. It maybe what they claimed to be but it’s wasn’t true.

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u/Altruistic-Car2880 5d ago

But people of no other country would ever choose this? Right?!

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u/abellapa 5d ago

They never really had Democracy in Russia

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u/jumpyg1258 5d ago

It's fucked up but Russians willingly chose dictatorship over democracy

It's almost like how some people want Trump back in office.

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u/SafetycarFan 5d ago

Relevant lecture on the subject.

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u/CurrencyFit7659 5d ago

Right. That child chose it? I mean, he wasn't born yet just like majority of 20s, or how my generation - I also chose dictatorship when I was 7yo? I mean, I got you, you don't think Russians are humans. But can you at least stfu? You're probably American and you know what? At least my country don't have real elections my whole adult life. You actually chose Trump and you're about to do it again. And you have you democracy for centuries. You had democracy when you didn't want to get involved with WW2 bc your ideas weren't that different. You had democracy when you started all the wars. You had democracy when you banned abortions

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u/nevertfgNC 5d ago

The MAGA model

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u/octopiLa 5d ago

A lot of America seems ready to make the same choice

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u/why_does 5d ago

we gon do it too

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u/mjduce 5d ago

Feels like the USA & Canada are slowly hobbling down a similar path. Scares me to think my grandchildren may be treated just like this boy someday.

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u/alex61821 5d ago

Isn't that what 73 million Americans are doing now.

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u/JL671 5d ago

It's fucked up but Russians willingly chose dictatorship over democracy. 

God I hope Americans don't do the same..

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u/Livid_Camel_7415 5d ago

1991-2000

Those numbers should tell you everything. Airports take longer to build than that. Start ups have changed the world in more significant ways than this period changed Russia. Democracy is a tradition, the did not ''have'' anything, they were just testing the waters and it failed the litmus test of the Russian society.

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u/Livid_Camel_7415 5d ago

No, that is nonsense. Russia in the 90's was the continuation of the 80's, steal as much as you can, before everything goes tits up. The same thing that happened in the 90's in Russia, happened in every post-Soviet state. The difference was, that for the nations that escaped the Soviet sphere, it was a renewal, a new epoch, a new national awakening.

For Russia, it was just a smaller version of their previous empire. There could never be a new beginning, because even after the end of the Soviet union, Russia is still not a country, but an empire and it can only be kept together by force.

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u/SignifigantZebra 4d ago

I haven't been there since 2011.

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u/Evergreen_76 5d ago

Project 2025

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u/No_Philosophy_7592 4d ago

Project 2025

Scares the absolute hell out of me.

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u/descendency 5d ago

Imagine basically executing a 15 year old because he criticized you and your government…

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u/Welfdeath 5d ago

Yeah exactly . Now imagine what kind of sentence an adult would get .

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u/VarunDM90 5d ago

Just look at what happened to Navalny. You don't have to imagine.

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u/moonshotengineer 5d ago

Coming to America compliments of Donald Trump.

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u/BeautifulType 5d ago

Already came to America once. Apathy is a disease

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u/Sisko2024 5d ago

Are we describing the GOP agenda for the US, or something else?

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u/Ghost9001 5d ago

And what crimes are those?

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u/Beginning_Ad_6616 5d ago

Imaginary ones put out there by Russian disinformation farms.

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u/RiffsThatKill 5d ago

Even those they can't articulate. Did they finally state what high crime or misdemeanor they want to charge? I tuned out after realizing they really had absolutely nothing, and it was clear they were still looking for something credible to pin on Biden. And I don't like Biden much, I was totally open and willing to believe he committed an impeachable offense. But I'm not willing to believe total bullshit just because I want it to be true.

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u/IowaKidd97 5d ago

Deemed unfit by one bias guy despite displaying perfectly stellar mental faculties, at least publicly.

Also what does that have to do with losing your freedom? Don’t think we didn’t notice that sudden change of topic lmao

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u/DefinitelyNotDEA 5d ago

Pretty sure anyone with a brain is talking about the guy that started the insurrection, asked a secretary of state to help him "find" the amount of votes he needed to win, and is a convicted felon. Trump supporters are in a cult.

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u/thequeenofcake 5d ago

If you actually read the special counsel report instead of conservative propaganda, you would know that Biden was not deemed unfit to stand trial.

He wasn't charged because the crime is to KNOWINGLY take confidential documents. The special counsel could not find evidence of intent.

Compare that to Trump refusing to give up the documents in violation of a court order and ordering the deletion of cctv footage to hide the evidence.

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u/YNinja58 5d ago

At this point? Pretending to themselves because they can't admit they've been wrong the whole time and that they've wasted their lives.

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u/florkingarshole 5d ago

ROTFLMFAO!!!

I'm dying over here LOL

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u/Golden_Hour1 5d ago

Do tell. Give us a reliable source champ

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u/SkYeBlu699 5d ago

Why didn't anything happen?

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u/Flomo420 5d ago

tHE DeEP stAtE

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u/PezRystar 5d ago

So, you literally can't name a single crime. You are just talking out of your ass?

Zoidberg: "I'm acting astonished"

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u/Even-Willow 5d ago

lol you’re a fucking loser bro

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u/cactusboobs 5d ago

Still can’t name a crime. A simple ask and you can’t answer. Fascinating. 

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u/RodneyDangerfieldIII 5d ago

Tell us plevs something to enlighten us. Pweeze, intelligent manly man with high t and the appropriate canthal tilt.

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u/RiffsThatKill 5d ago

The report existing isn't evidence of guilt. What did the special COUNSEL report state it found as evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor?

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u/fiduciary420 5d ago

This is what republicans, especially Christian republicans, want for America.

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u/MyBallsSmellFruity 5d ago

That’s putting it mildly.  It’s almost guaranteed that this kid will be beaten and raped.  Their penal system is horrifying.  

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u/reggie_700 5d ago

You can do whatever you want as long as it's exactly what we say.

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u/BaphometsTits 5d ago

Total obedience means you don't have freedom in the first place.

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 5d ago

Putin is making the Soviet Union look warm and fuzzy.

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u/hugazow 5d ago

What freedom?

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u/ComfortableBasis3046 4d ago

Sound like my mom

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u/Bic_wat_u_say 4d ago

As it should be

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u/thenonallgod 5d ago

Love this sentence

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u/Fusciee 5d ago

It’s what Trump would like the US to look like in a year

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u/netchemica 5d ago

Are you free to take photographs of your military bases in your country and send them to foreign intelligence services?

In the US? Yes, you can photograph anything that is in public view and share it with anyone you want.

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u/K-tel 5d ago

You cannot lose what you never had.

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u/Wonder1st 5d ago

Not much different here in the US...

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u/modest-decorum 5d ago

Sounds like murica

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u/SpicyEla 5d ago

Categorically untrue.

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u/DuchessVonDucki 5d ago

Not really. All he had to do was just not criticise the government. This is awful, but let's not pretend it's north Korea. His fate could have been avoided by putting self-preservation above ideals.

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u/Eyes_Only1 5d ago

This is quite possibly the least self aware comment I’ve seen in a very long time. That’s exactly what North Korea asks of people too, to not criticize the government. You just described something North Koreans have to do out of self preservation.

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u/DuchessVonDucki 5d ago

You're being obtuse if you argue the demands of the Russian government are anywhere near as extreme and complete as the North Korean government. They have completely different mechanics of repression and wildly different standards of devotion. You, yourself could survive in Russia if you kept your head down, just knowing what you know now. The same is not true if you were in north Korea. The Russian government does not demand performative patriotism anywhere near the extent the Korean government does.

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u/Eyes_Only1 4d ago

The difference between surviving in Russia and North Korea is waving a flag every now and then, got it.

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u/FitPermission3151 5d ago

Like with Covid?

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u/RefrigeratorFit3677 5d ago

Not at all, being anti-vax doesn't land you in prison, neither does criticizing the president, if you were talking about the US that is. In China where they welded people's doors shut, that's a different story.

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u/FitPermission3151 5d ago

Didn’t mention a vax