21 October 2025
by Anna Karetnikova
Source: Facebook
Somehow everything has become tediously predictable. An excellent new bill that is bound to pass!
A bill to defend Russia’s citizens against sabotage.
Lower the age of responsibility for sabotage for minors to 14 (even now it starts at 14 for terrorist acts in general, but the devil is in the details). Indeed, by age 14 it’s perfectly clear from any minor how carefully he paid attention in ‘classes about what is important’. After that he immediately comes under FSB jurisdiction, under previously enacted legislation. If at 14 you wind up in an FSB prison, at 18 you’re hardly going to be singing ambiguous songs on the street.
Judging by all the positive responses there have already been there, the bill will pass. Over there only Eva Merkacheva is wrestling, reasonably wondering why, if a minor at 14 knows what harm to ‘defense capability’ and ‘economic security’ are, then why can’t he vote until he’s 18?
I personally would add: kill and die, too.
And here we have these happy, carefree deputy-people who are voting for the bill, butterflies and dragonflies. They are certain they always know and always will know where and what their daughter or son is doing at every specific moment in time. And their granddaughter, and their grandson. According to their logic, the new bill is supposed to affect others’, children in whom they have no interest, children of poor and doubtless drunken parents, children who roam the embankments in some kind of wild band wearing raggedy pants trying to figure out the handiest way to make some money: put together a stash or derail a freight train? While their own, deputy children meekly await parental permission, MGIMO [Moscow State University of Foreign Affairs], or at least an enemy foreign country?
But children can surprise you.
Source: Facebook
Political activist Mikhail Kriger has been on a hunger strike in an Orel Oblast penal colony for nearly a month, protesting his frequent placement in the ShIZO [punishment cell]. Why prisoners declare hunger strikes and how effective such protest is. How the hunger strike and coming out of it are regulated in Russian penal colonies and prisons. I talk about this at length and in detail to Radio Svoboda here.
(Next week, Aleksandr Cherkasov will talk about how this was before).
Source: Facebook
The shortage of staff in Russian penal colonies and prisons has reached a critical level. FSIN [Federal Penitentiary Service] Deputy Director Aleksandr Rozin spoke about this on 15 October at a session of the State Duma Security Committee. Previously, he had reported that in many regions the shortfall of service employees was 50 percent; in Tula, 70.
I’ve already told the media what this in fact means, and now I am recommending material on Lenta.ru on the reasons why this is happening. The link is here, I don’t agree with a lot of it, but it has interesting observations and is clearly written.
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Translated by Marian Schwartz
