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Eugene

(62,657 posts) Tue Sep 24, 2024, 12:57 PM Sep 24

Russia is hunting down exiled citizens at an alarming rate

Source: Semafor

Russia is hunting down exiled citizens at an alarming rate

Paige Bruton and Diego Mendoza
Updated Sep 24, 2024, 8:40am EDT
Europe

Russia is quietly targeting exiled citizens across the world in a repression campaign that deserves more global attention, an investigative reporter for Meduza argued in The New York Times.

Moscow began targeting high-profile opposition figures and journalists after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but low-profile Russian dissenters, from school teachers to toy-shop owners, have also been surveilled or kidnapped in several countries.

“The Kremlin is hunting down ordinary people across the world, and nobody seems to care,” Lilia Yapparova wrote, noting the lack of protection for Russians abroad and that host countries are often complicit.

Read more: https://www.semafor.com/article/09/23/2024/russia-targets-exiled-citizens

Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/news/russia-targets-exiled-citizens-231359791.html

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Russia is hunting down exiled citizens at an alarming rate (Original Post) Eugene Sep 24 OP

Sure sign that Russia is a great place to live. Whyisthisstillclose Sep 24 #1

Yes, more MAGA Russian sympathizers should move there Envirogal Sep 24 #2

The West has always coddled Putin, a ruthless psychopath who has stolen most of Russia's wealth Irish_Dem Sep 24 #3

Whyisthisstillclose

(86 posts)

1. Sure sign that Russia is a great place to live.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2024, 12:59 PM

Sep 24

Envirogal

(169 posts)

2. Yes, more MAGA Russian sympathizers should move there

Reply to Whyisthisstillclose (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 24, 2024, 01:44 PM

Sep 24

And the report back how wonderful it is and what a heroic leader Putin is!

“Arend and Anneesa Feenstra, a couple from Canada who moved to Russia this year with their eight children to get away from “LGBT ideology”, ran into difficulties when their bank accounts were frozen. Anneesa posted an angry video to YouTube saying that she was “disappointed” in Russia and was ready to “jump on a plane and get out of here”. The couple, who remain in Russia, later deleted the video and apologised.”

https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/the-american-families-moving-to-russia-to-flee-moral-decline-of-us-k9975x2nj

Irish_Dem

(57,531 posts)

3. The West has always coddled Putin, a ruthless psychopath who has stolen most of Russia's wealth

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2024, 03:12 PM

Sep 24

and treats citizens brutally.

He is a dictator and mob boss. The West pretends he is a legitimate leader
and gives him respect and status.

The West loves cheap Russian oil.
This is all that matters.

The West even refuses to let Ukraine win the war.
We should hang out heads in shame.

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