I think I have to applaud these folks:
Several elected officials in Russia have been summoned by police after they called for the impeachment of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a rare display of dissent in the country, local deputies from the Smolninskoye municipality in the St. Petersburg area appealed to the Russian Duma to impeach the President, for what they called crimes of high treason.
The author of the appeal, Dmitry Palyuga, posted it on Twitter, alleging Putin was responsible for “(1) the decimation of young able-bodied Russian men who would serve the workforce better than the military; (2) Russia’s economic downturn and brain drain; (3) NATO’s expansion eastward, including adding Finland and Sweden to “double” its border with Russia; (4) the opposite effect of the “special military operation” in Ukraine.”
Palyuga and fellow Deputy Nikita Yuferev later posted on Twitter a summons issued to them by the St. Petersburg police for their “discrediting of the ruling establishment”. [CNN]
Looking to peace rather than offensive war seems like a winner move for those who worry about morality.
And Putin, who appears to be facing imminent disaster as the Kremlin discovers the corruption endemic to Russian government for something near a millennia has also leaked into the military, really isn’t going to find this move funny.
But the world needs him out of power.
