Russian politician files legal challenge over Putin's reference to Ukraine "war"
Source: Reuters
A St Petersburg politician has asked prosecutors to investigate Russian President Vladimir Putin for using the word war to describe the conflict in Ukraine, accusing the Kremlin chief of breaking his own law.
Putin has for months described his invasion as a special military operation. He signed laws in March that prescribe steep fines and jail terms for discrediting or spreading deliberately false information about the armed forces, putting people at risk of prosecution if they call the war by its name.
But he departed from his usual language on Thursday when he told reporters: Our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict, but, on the contrary, to end this war.
Nikita Yuferev, an opposition councillor in the city where Putin was born, said he knew his legal challenge would go nowhere, but he had filed it to expose the mendacity of the system.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-war-idCAKBN2T70O3
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,834 posts)No film at 11.
RockRaven
(14,962 posts)Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)Back in the USSR.
oldsoftie
(12,533 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)damn, way to call out Putin on his BS
yaesu
(8,020 posts)kimbutgar
(21,137 posts)republianmushroom
(13,590 posts)Martin68
(22,794 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)also might want to buy a canary.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)He believes the majority of Russians understood what was really happening in Ukraine.
War, in Russian society, is a frightening word. Everyone is brought up by grandparents who lived through World War Two, everyone remembers the saying Anything but war, he said.
That is something to ponder. The word war is tossed around in America like a salad.