Putin expands FSB powers, turning Russia into military dictatorship

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1. Russia has been a dictatorship for a while, no changes there. Giving FSB more power, the same as all the windows accidents means that he is trying (and failing) to control unrest and raising opposition.

2. oh word?

3. Oh they had such a solid country, but this one decision ruined it all and suddenly created a dictatorship. /s

4. Technically speaking, Putin is an autocrat of an autocratic dictatorship not a military dictatorship.

   Putin isn’t a general and thus he can’t be the head of a military dictatorship.

   You have to be a member of the military to classify as much.

   Maybe after his death when a general takes his place we can finally say it’s a military dictatorship but as it’s now, it isn’t.

   Just analysis not an opinion.

5. Always has been.

6. Even more of a military dictatorship, you mean.

7. I think you’re late buddy

8. Anyone objecting has been asked to please meet Putin in the 14th floor tea room.

9. We are regressing.. We have learned nothing from our past 🙁

10. Small nitpicking.
    It’s not a military dictatorship. In fact, the military in Russia is deliberately politically castrated.

    Russia is a dictatorship of secret services which are the dominant force there since the death of Brezhnev and the de facto KGB coup of 1982.

11. So, nothing changes , except the mask falls a little lower now.

12. Turning?
    That is a dictatorship a long time ago.

13. Russia being a military dictatorship? That’s not news

14. The fsb isn’t part of the military, is it ?

15. I wonder how long before Trump expresses his admiration of this strong policy without admitting he’d like to do the same.

16. Surprised Matrioshka Pikachu face!

17. Russia is merely adhering to its historical norms and further formalizing the pre-existing political reality in that country. It’s a vast multi-ethnic empire that has always been ruled by some autocrat or elite clique. It has flirted with democracy on occasion, but there is no tradition of democratic governance in the country and the state has consistently silenced open political dissent.

18. Always has been. Just slid further into it.

19. Turning…?

20. Bruh must be terrified of a coup if he’s tightening his grip even more than he already had it.

21. To the shock and surprise of no one for generations atp.

22. a military coup and after that the first “free” election was rigged very hard in favor of yeltsin according to the nyt. so i am not sure why anyone claims that russia only now turned into a military dictatorship

23. Special military dictatorship

24. “Turning”

25. Putin preparing for his own death, handing power back to those who gave it to him.

26. Guess he learned that one from Trump.

27. But it already was

28. >The agency notes that the formal justification for the move is Article 8 of the Federal Law “On Martial Law,” which allows the president to impose a range of restrictions.

    So Russia is under martial law, but they are not officially at war.

    >It has also been revealed that Russia is building a new network of prisons and detention centers under FSB control — rather than under the Federal Penitentiary Service — to monitor dissent. The use of special railcars, expanded powers for transporting prisoners, and the right to conduct court proceedings within prisons all point to preparations for large-scale repression.

    So efficient. A special agent can arrest you, try you, and put you in a prison, all in secret. I wonder if they can sentence you to death as well.

    Sounds like a completely normal democracy to me…

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