A Russian court sentenced a 15-year-old student to five years in a juvenile detention centre. Arseniy Turbin was accused of participating in a terrorist organization. According to investigators, he wanted to be a member of the Freedom of Russia Legion and distributed flyers containing criticism of President Vladimir Putin to his neighbours’ mailboxes.

The 15-year-old, Arseniy Turbin, was sentenced to five years in a juvenile detention centre by the Military District Court of the Second Western Region. The boy resides in the city of Livny in the Oryol Oblast. The verdict was reported by the Meduza portal, citing Mediazona’s information.

Turbin was accused of participating in a terrorist organization. According to investigators, at the beginning of June 2023, when he was 14, he wrote to a Telegram bot for the Freedom of Russia Legion and filled out a membership form. Then he distributed flyers with the text: “Do you need such a president?” to his neighbours’ mailboxes.

Two months later, the FSB searched his home. He was detained and put under house arrest with the possibility of attending school.

  • Flying Squid
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    Let’s see whether lemmy.ml will ignore this story or if Tankies will come in here and tell us that such measures are necessary to counter Western imperialism.

    • @[email protected]
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      163 months ago

      Moreover, Russia is not fascist, never mind the nationalistic cult of authority, and running this story is

      𝔼𝕊ℂ𝔸𝕃𝔸𝕋𝕆ℝ𝕐

      • Nougat
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        Authority, story, escalatory — I think you might be a rapper.

        Edit: I also just noticed the pairing of ‘fascist’ and ‘nationalistic’ which I like very much.

  • Chainweasel
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    323 months ago

    This could be America in 6 months if Trump wins, he literally has the power to disappear people if he wins.

    • @WraithGear
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      43 months ago

      There is a loaded gun in the White House. Trump is just the beginning, and i also don’t trust democrats to not abuse it either. Trump is just more open about how he will use it.

  • @Tujio
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    A man was arrested outside the Kremlin for holding a sign that said “Putin is an imbecile!”

    He was sentenced to two years for slander and five years for spilling state secrets.

    • Flying Squid
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      He was sentenced to two years for slander

      Is it really slander considering the state of the Russian military a very long time after the week they were supposed to take Kyiv by?

      • enkers
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        I believe it’s a joke. He gets 2 years for slander because it’s a false charge, and 5 for leaking state secrets because what he said is true.

  • @lennybird
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    Ah Russia,

    • Whose modern Rasputin, Aleksandr Dugin is a literal neo-Nazi.
    • Who possesses world leadership in alcoholism rates.
    • Who is in the bottom 20 percentile adjacent to Afghanistan for transparency and corruption.
    • Meanwhile the sorry suckers have an economy smaller than California and think they can win in Ukraine lol.

    They’re speedrunning to become North Korea.