RUSSIA’S SUMMER OFFENSIVE: THE 500 LAWS OF SODOM

July 26, 2023 -Durt Fibo

Yesterday we were harried by other stories, but had this done and are publishing it now. The 26^th of July was the last sitting day of the Russian Federation’s Duma [Parliament], and they smashed through approximately 500 new pieces of legislation before fleeing away to their vacations. While the Duma members absent themselves until September 5^th, much of their bill-busting will be enacted into practice by courts, cops and clerks, the changes affecting all Russian citizens and far too many people in the rest of the world.

A slew of laws and amendments were laid down to further contain political activity, such as expanding the repression of whatever is designated a “foreign agent” to include the impromptu investigations and consequent financial and legal penalties of any individuals ‘associating’ with said “foreign agents.” Concentrically, new laws were put forth to punish individuals deemed to be participating in the activities of a foreign non-profit or non-governmental organizations sanctioned in Russia. Penalties will include high fines and imprisonment up to three years.

The punishment for treason was raised from a maximum of 20 years imprisonment to life without a chance of parole; although Putin had affixed his signature to this in April, the Duma juggled some updating of the Criminal Code to prevent anything falling through its fingers. In tandem came the retooling of procedure and penalties for the updated law on citizenship. Amendments were added to allow depriving acquired citizenship when a person was found guilty under the articles of this law in regards to cooperating with an “undesirable organization”, “discrediting” the RF Armed Forces, “violating the territorial integrity of Russia”, or evading the regulations of a “foreign agent”

There was, of course, a solidifying of the laws against transgendering and all tendencies towards it, as we had detailed in our July 24 article.

Media and information was lassoed and hogtied with bills forbidding registering on Russian sites with foreign e-mails; beginning December 1, 2023, internet resources must authorize Russian users using one of four permitted ways: with one’s telephone number, through the State Services, via the country’s Unified Biometric System, or through an existing account on another Russian service. Hosting providers will be required to notify the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, aka the РКН [RKN] (Роскомнадзор = Roskomnadzor ), at the commencement of activities, and ensure that all the requirements for information and interaction with authorized departments are adhered to.

This is closely connected to the decreed introduction of a “Digital Ruble” to be issued by the Russian Central Bank. Digital wallets can only be be created for it on the Central Bank platform, which will be fully able to monitor all activity.

But before summering in the style to which they pray they’ll remain accustomed to, the Duma deputies had to settle matters of war, and those were hard and plentiful. Starting with the quotidian, the Donbas was to be more tightly embraced, with some 54 of the 500 bills dedicated to establishing total integration of the Donetsk and Luhansk separatist republics into the Greater Russian bureaucracy. An offshoot of that was the introduction of laws granting governors all over the Russian Federation the right to create “state unitary enterprises” (i.e., militias) to “protect public order” during mobilization, martial law or wartime -to be subsidized by the federal budget. That itself was a natural branch of the expansion of the age range for military conscription, which was rooted in laws enlarging the penalties for non-compliance; those are being enacted as amendments to existing regulations, but, as the Duma sponsor of them inadvertently revealed: “The amendments to the law on mobilization preparation and mobilization are very sensitive. They are sensitive in that this law was written for a major war, for a general mobilization. Which this big war already smacks of.”

One final bill stands out as another retroactive sanctification of the war-time Russian Federation: an initiative to remove existing laws prohibiting the involvement of students in labor without their consent or the consent of their parents. This is one of the most concerning justifications insofar as it follows an expose’ just this week by the underground Russian investigative group Протокол [Protokol] about students at Alabuga Polytech being directed to assemble drones for use against Ukraine. Alabuga is in Tartarstan, set up as as a Special Economic Zone to fecundate and foster engineers who will then lead the future of high-tech. But, after being recruited, its students found themselves forced to put together components of Iranian-origin Shahed kamikaze drones, and subjected to a quasi-military lifestyle.