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Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by struxure on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:55AM (#27265077)
The question was if people (I assumed a regular folk, not journalists and opposition) are allowed to make jokes about the government, and I answered to that. Of course I know that Russia has no traces of democracy left and I am aware how Russia targets high-profile people, including journalists. You should be more reserved before telling people they don't know anything.
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Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by petre on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:42PM (#27266533)
Allowed? People would do it anyway. Most Eastern European communist era jokes involved the beloved leader. Russian jokes about politicians and policies are even better.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes

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Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by cannabis_sam on Monday May 24, 2021 @01:11PM (#27266981)
No, the question was:

> Do you see it headed towards China, where no internal criticism is allowed?

But if you’re a russian opposed to Putin you cant’t really answer that on a western-run online platform.. (unless you’re considered insignificant enough by the Russian government, so you can safely be ignored of course)

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Re:Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace by struxure on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:16PM (#27267811)
I answered to this question:

> are people allowed to make jokes about their own government in Russia?

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