🇷🇺 Russian lawmakers have prepared a bill allowing for the confiscation of money and property from people who spread "deliberately false information" about the country's armed forces, a senior member of parliament said on Saturday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-consider-law-property-confiscation-fakes-about-army-2024-01-20/
@rvps2001 People must be starting to question the war!
@Doreen32128
People have started questioning the war long ago, not many dare do it openly. This is about confiscating property of those who have left — this is supposed to prevent people from leaving.
Some expect a full mobilization after the elections in March — last time it made many flee the country and this time it's expected to be way worse than before.
This looks like countermeasures taken in advance.
@rvps2001
@Doreen32128
Sanctions do work, but not the way some expected them to. Some experts are mislead by GDP growing, but it's just a bad benchmark for the type of economy in which the state buys military equipment from state-owned companies and itself sets the prices.
Not a collapse and hardly enough to stop the war, but it was a serious blow. On top of that most Russians don't like to admit that their life got worse — this makes it look like sanctions didn't make a dent, but they did.
@Doreen32128
Then again, people fleeing the country — a lot of the ones who left are highly qualified specialists, migrants can replace unqualified workers, but they can't replace those who have left. This is of course reported as a huge economic success as unemployment rates are record low, but in fact it's a ticking time bomb.
Here is a good insight on what's happening economy-wise: https://theins.ru/en/opinion/igor-lipsitz/268146
@rvps2001
@m0xee @rvps2001 Very interesting!! So many of the brain trust has gone. That has to hurt the country. Thanks for sending this article.