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Treason against the Motherland. From state secrets to SMS

Duration: 6min 25sec Type: Standup Playlist: 82 of 124 in First Department

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Since 2014, FSB investigators have been increasingly registering citizens as traitors to the state, and their criteria are becoming lower. For example, in order to "divulge a state secret," it is no longer necessary to have access to it. The story of the first journalist who was prosecuted under Article 275 (spoiler: it was not Ivan Safronov), why elderly scientists are being repressed with it, and whether a two-word SMS can be considered treason.