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Russia's Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, recently with his Cabinet had drafted a bill...which would legally consider government critics as traitors to the country.

The draft extends the definition of treason from breaching Russia's external security to damaging the nation's constitutional order, sovereignty or territorial integrity. That would essentially let authorities interpret any act against the interests of the state as treason — a crime prosecutable by up to 20 years in prison.

Prominent rights activists said passage of the bill would catapult Russia's justice system back to the times of Stalin's purges.

Could this be the Soviet Union trying to rise again and become the country it once was?

Or is this normal, and just another country's way of enforcing National Security?

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I'm not seeing how this bill makes just being critical of the government treason... Sounds like the press blowing things out of proportion again.

That's what I think could be happening over there CCM. I'm trying to dig into it a little bit and find out what the bill REALLY proposes...but we won't see anything on that till it is passed.