Andrey Nechaev: "The absurdity becomes the law"

"Our glorious State Duma unanimously adopted in the second (mainly) reading the absurd law on foreign citizens. We are not at all about foreign spies, as we can assume at first glance. We are talking about you with you," the former Minister of Economy writes onFacebook .

"Along with NPO-foreigners, media-foreigners and foreign people are now appearing.
These will be recognized as media that receive foreign financing. These are not only all sorts of BBC and Deutsche Welle. For this category, for example, the Channel of the Khodorkovsky MBH-Media and the like will almost certainly fall. Journalists who write for these media become outcasts and objects of repression and sanctions.

With citizens, it is still more tragicom. I quote literally: "In accordance with the amendments of foreign agents, individuals who distribute the materials of the media - foreign agents or participate in their creation can be recognized as the amendments of the media, and also receive money or property from the border or from Russian legal entities financed from foreign sources."

I translate from Duma into Russian: I like a tweet of a foreign publication or the same MBH, get to the pencil of the authorized stateganese. And if you also get a salary from the inofirm, then your business is a pipe.

And everything is by no means as harmless as it might seem at first glance. The sad experience of NPO-foreign agents is already available.

A citizen fell into the list of foreign agents of the Ministry of Justice, is obliged to indicate in any publication that he is a foreign agent. Do you write a tweet of 280 signs, take a place to the ad that you are a foreign agent (I wonder if the reduction will be allowed?). And God forbid did not indicate, get ready for giant fines. The Duma instructed the specific criteria for violations and the size of fines to develop. Be sure, it will develop!

In fact, the objectionable authorities of the media and just active citizens will elementarily ruin these fines, forcing to shut up or emigrate. And for those who still do not shut up, use the locking tool. Fortunately, they trained on a telegram.

By the way, about how to stop being in the agent, not a word in the law, i.e. While this honorary title is supposed to be lifelong. NPOs can be closed and new. It is more difficult with a person. "