>(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."

Yuferev will most likely be found dead, in the morning

It would be hilarious if this actually stuck

Well, this would be one way to get a regime change.

Rest in power comrade

Yuferev? More like leftforded

Would this be useful in securing the release of those jailed for describing his special operation as a WAR ??!! ffs with this clown !

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I am sure he will just pay the "fine" and apologize for "miss speaking".

All I'm saying is that it's possible he fell out of that locked window after drinking his tea and when he landed the loaded gun in his pocket managed to go off twice in the back of his head.

Stranger things have happened....

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If they want their value of the legal system to stay intact, then they would need to do something for sure.

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"Rules for thee, not me."

What political party and position does this guy have? Would be interesting to know

The funniest thing ever is if we found out that British agent who died inside of a duffel bag locked from the outside actually just legit did die like that, but the Russians sent that Stingray to assassinate Steve Irwin.

Yeah, guy is very tragicly about to accidentally cut his head off while shaving.

what the heck is with the messed up title ?

What value?

0x27 is the hexadecimal ASCII code for " ´ ". Computer is just confused.

Edit: forgot to explain. Computers take ASCII hexadecimal code to represent characters. It gives possibility for 255 characters using only 8 bits.

Lmao, right. I’m sure Putin will get a hefty fine and be doing prison time for this one ^/s

It's not like Russian credibility or integrity can go much further down.

This is just the last brittle bit of facade clinging to the wall for the illusion.

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The only thing that's going to get stuck is this guy with a polonium umbrella.

Only if Russia had any rule of law and wasn't a kleptocracy.

Best stay away from windows for the rest of your life my guy

>It's not like Russian credibility or integrity can go much further down

In our eyes for sure. In the local civilians eyes that will make an impact. There's some expectation that their leaders still follow the rules of their country. Those leaders probably make massive wiggle rooms for themselves in those laws, but they still follow it within the scope.

In this case, it's clear cut even Putin himself violated his own law, so it begs the question on how willing their govt would be to enforce his own laws.

Probably not, but that will leave a ripple effect with the Russian people.

If their enforcement echoes that of the U.S., it won't happen at all. Which, think is to your point, the system can't sustain that particular choice right now?

Good chance it won't, but that lack of enforcing laws at the leadership level, even in Russia, creates additional resentment in top of what's already in place at the local level.

If you think rural areas want to revolt against Russia now for decimating their local populations, I would be curious to see how they respond when Putin violates his own laws on state TV and gets little repercussions as a result.

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He'll probably get a mobilisation order.

But why only this title? Most posts have no issue displaying commas

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It's html unicode for the Apostrophe. Reddit didn't convert the title correctly.

>Good chance it won't, but that lack of enforcing laws at the leadership level, even in Russia, creates additional resentment in top of what's already in place at the local level.

Completely agree.

Laws are just rules; rules that aren't enforced are meaningless.

And rules are also the only thing that gives leaders any power; if they don't follow the rules, no one should (following their example) and if people all stopped playing by the rules... anarchy.

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