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Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by gostsamo on Monday May 24, 2021 @06:25AM (#27262773)
It is a crime to make caricatures of Vladimir Putin.

Someone is downvoting this comment to death, so I'm sharing the story for the brave and curious.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/05...

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Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by ceejayoz on Monday May 24, 2021 @07:52AM (#27263275)
It's also apparently not advisable to beat him in ice hockey.

https://deadspin.com/vladimir-putin-scores-eight-goals-in-ru...

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Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by vbezhenar on Monday May 24, 2021 @08:03AM (#27263360)
Pikabu is one of the most popular Russian websites (something like Reddit). Here's search results of Putin caricatures: https://pikabu.ru/tag/%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D...

It might be a crime, but it's not enforced enough, obviously.

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Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by vimy on Monday May 24, 2021 @08:49AM (#27263702)
The real reason for that law is probably to use it as a tool against dissidents.
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