Thursday, September 13, 2007

Russian Extremism


INTERESTING...

Recently, we were made aware of Russia's recent law regarding extremism: [jurist.law.pitt.edu]

The part about the illegality of "humiliating national merit" is especially noteworthy. Precisely because it is so vague and all-encompassing. (By that definition most of the books written about Stalin's Russia are "humiliating [of] national merit" and therefore illegal.) But then I suppose practically everybody on Bob Atchison's history forum (himself included) the Alexander Palace Time Machine and elsewhere on the web is guilty to some extent or another of "humiliating" Russian "national merit" ...

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