authorities have asked Russians living in the country who they think rightfully owns Crimea, and their views on the Ukraine war.
This is McCarthyism. Crimea is obviously rightfully part of Ukraine and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong according to international law and the considered opinion of the international community - but being wrong shouldn’t be illegal. Governments should absolutely feel free to deport those Russian citizens who are actively acting on behalf of a hostile foreign government, but simply being both Russian and a moron doesn’t mean you’re automatically acting as an agent of Putin.
And what about those Russians in Lithuania who have loved ones back home or who may want to return to Russia one day, who have to outwardly not be critical of the regime even if that’s not what they actually believe - how should they respond to these questionnaires?
You don’t beat the bad guys by behaving like the bad guys. Privately held opinions should not be criminalised.
You’re right in principle, but in practice this is more a more sensitive matter when you share a border with a country like russia.
What they could do is bar any russian from entering unless they can prove on a case-by-case basis at the border that they are escaping persecution in russia for being against the invasion and need to cross it. I think that would be legal and ethical.
IIRC they did the exact opposite: they announced Russians running from the draft will be deprted back to Russia because they shoud not be allowed to “escape responsibility”.
Sounds like an easy case for the ECHR. It is also not the first time the Baltics have crossed the line.
Israel is also not wrong about the threats it is facing but neither their situation nor this one nor any other one justifies such clear violations of human rights.
Which countries help russian deserters? Does the EU still send them back to Russia if they have no redidency?
The thing is the Russian propaganda machine will use this, and this is the fucked up part.
Instead of doing can’t they just communicate with the Russian-speaking community more and decrease the impact of the Pro-Putin propaganda? Of course, this only goes for the pro-Putin Russians and not every Russian person is Pro-Putin.
That’s pretty fucked up. Having another opinion is not grounds for losing your residence permit.
Would you say that of someone who supports ISIS?
As a matter of fact, yes. Even returning ISIL fighters weren’t deported back to Syria. There are methods of dealing with disruptive individuals that don’t boil down to “getting rid of undesirables”.
Not sure that’s a good example. If people with residency permits went off to fight for ISIS their residency permits would be revoked. We’re not talking about Lithuanian citizens.
What’s with that paltry gotcha question? You do know there have been plenty of other groups as bad as or worse than Da’ish and we’ve been dealing with their admirers ever since.
Then use one of those groups in that example instead if you prefer
Good! We should all do this
This is the right response to Russian state terror.
