St. Petersburg Officials Demand Vladimir Putin Be Tried for Treason in Letter
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Via: revillug • 2 years ago • 10 commentsBy: Allison Quinn (The Daily Beast)
Several municipal lawmakers in St. Petersburg are calling on Russia’s State Duma to charge Vladimir Putin with treason, according to a local lawmaker. Dmitry Palyuga, a deputy with the Smolninskoye municipal council, announced the news on Twitter late Wednesday, sharing a copy of the letter he said had been prepared for Russian lawmakers.
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Allison Quinn
Published Sep. 08, 2022 7:15AM ET
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Several municipal lawmakers in St. Petersburg are calling on Russia's State Duma to charge Vladimir Putin with treason, according to a local lawmaker. Dmitry Palyuga, a deputy with the Smolninskoye municipal council, announced the news on Twitter late Wednesday, sharing a copy of the letter he said had been prepared for Russian lawmakers. "The decision [to send the request to the State Duma] was supported by the majority of deputies present," he wrote, without specifying exactly how many lawmakers had voted in favor of the move. The letter notes that the lawmakers in Putin's hometown want him removed from power for his "special military operation" against Ukraine, which they said constitutes high treason. In addition to scores of Russian troops getting killed in the war, the letter notes, "Russia's economy is suffering" as a result of foreign companies leaving and a huge segment of the population fleeing. NATO is also "expanding" as a result of Putin's war, despite his declared goal being to stop the alliance from growing, the letter says, adding that the Russian leader's "demilitarization of Ukraine" has also backfired spectacularly as the West provides more weapons. "We believe that President Putin's decision to begin the [special military operation] is harming Russia's security and its citizens," the letter reads. Notably, the lawmakers made no mention of Putin's senseless motivations for the war, though they had previously sent him an open letter condemning his "historical fantasies" and demanding he stop the "bloodshed" in neighboring Ukraine.
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It takes some set of balls to speak truth to power in Russia.
We are still pretty lucky here in America in that regard.
Later they just have to be careful not to rest those big balls in underwear laced with the deadly nerve agent novichok...
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Hope those folks don't go near any multiple story hospitals and fall out top floor windows!
I have an elderly Russian neighbor who was a child during the German siege of St. Petersburg (then called Leningrad) during WWII.
The news of the Ukrainian war has been very triggering for her. She is angry with Putin and Russia for subjecting Ukrainians to what she lived through as a child.
Siege of Leningrad :
The way the war in Ukraine is going for Russia there may be more of this mind and voicing it.
Does this gesture carry any weight, at all? Somehow, I doubt it.
And anyway, poll after poll seems to show that a majority of the Russian people support Putin and whatever the hell it is they think he is doing in Ukraine.
There are two things to notice about St. Petersburg, Putin and Ukraine. The first thing is that Putin's political career started in St. Petersburg. The second thing to notice is that the people of St. Petersburg still have a vivid, if second or third generation at this point, memory of the siege of Leningrad in WWII, which is what the city was called back then.
Does it carry any weight? A revolt begins with the first stone being cast. Russia is, on paper anyway, a nation of laws just like we are.