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If you are not constantly posting fake and not recieve money from foreign entities you are not being arested at all in Russia. You may get a fine, and that's not always the case.



Claiming people are being funded by "foreign entities" is one of the commonest excuses dictatorships use for persecution.

I do not know what the state of free speech in Russia is, but that explanation is not credible.


In today's world, it's all complicated, to tell the truth. If you think very deeply, then with the help of foreign money, if there is a lot of it, you can even destroy the country without doing anything illegal, just paying for advertising and comments with coverage of only facts that are beneficial to you and excluding the unprofitable ones.

People often think that bot farms are only from Russia and China, but on the other side, paid commenters are also used. Unfortunately, it will only get worse with modern AI.


"Fake" like calling the "special military operation" a war of aggression?


For me, there is not much difference between these names. Anyway, choosing a name doesn't change the actual events... Yes it's not good. But it's bad saying only about war aggression and not saying at all about bloody coup and bloody nationlist crimes.


It's all very complicated there is no ideal side. I'm sorry if I offended anyone.


It's not very complicated. Russia invaded Ukraine, occupied large parts of its territories, and forcibly annexed it. Russia is the aggressor and the war criminal. These are all objective facts.




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