At the mountains of madness, part 2
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.6 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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This is part 2 of our recap. Please, check out part 1, otherwise this will make no sense. Also, lots of love to our Patrons, artists, and everyone who supports the show. Happy New Year to you and yours! (This is basically insane Russian news, just in case you missed part 1)
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast? Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. It's up to you how much you give, and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:28.6 | Thank you. Okay, let's go straight down to the business then. |
| 0:39.3 | On December 25th, Russian senators approved a law that allows for ordinary citizens and informal organizations, ones that are not registered as legal entities, to be deemed foreign agents, if they are involved in political activity |
| 0:45.1 | in Russia and receive assistance from abroad. |
| 0:47.2 | For example, if I was in Russia, not in Lafayette, and you'd be a Patreon supporter of mine, |
| 0:52.7 | which I implored you, please do become, this has been a top year for me, and you'd be a Patreon supporter of mine, which I implored you please do become. |
| 0:55.2 | This has been a tough year for me, and, well, due to COVID, life's not getting an easier. |
| 1:00.5 | But that's a side note here. |
| 1:02.4 | The main thing is that if you even receive a single dollar from PayPal to a Russian account, |
| 1:10.4 | even a faked one, set up to you by FSB, like you can be |
| 1:14.6 | deemed a foreign agent. And that involves some interesting donations. We'll get to that |
| 1:20.3 | with Navarney's part, obviously. But yeah, this is kind of a bizarre thing, because you see, |
| 1:26.5 | the new law refers to more than just financial assistance and offers a broad interpretation of what constitutes, what even is political activity. |
| 1:38.0 | What's more? |
| 1:39.0 | Potential foreign agents are responsible for registering their status themselves, and, under yet another law, |
| 1:47.7 | failure to do so can threaten not only a fine, but also up to five years, real years, in prison, |
| 1:56.5 | not just to spend the sentence. |
| 1:58.6 | Now, all that's left is for, well, our good old buddy Vovichka, |
| 2:03.3 | oh, Mr. Putin, I love you so much, to sign these new measures into law, which, well, |
| 2:09.1 | he will. He definitely will. I mean, there's no even talking about that. You know, when you talk |
| 2:14.7 | about police violence in your own country or some issues that you might have, |
| 2:19.2 | always remember that I'm on the eastern border and things, well, I'm going to visit Russia at some point |
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