The Russian State Duma has approved legislation granting President Vladimir Putin the authority to deploy military forces to protect or free Russian citizens abroad. This law permits the use of the armed forces to intervene when nationals are detained or prosecuted by foreign states or international organizations in ways that Moscow deems illegal. The measure formalizes the executive branch’s power to respond to international legal actions against its citizens, marking a significant expansion of the legal framework governing foreign military intervention.
- The Russian State Duma passed a bill authorizing the president to use military force to protect Russian citizens outside the country’s borders.
- The legislation specifically applies to situations where Russian nationals are held by foreign governments or international bodies.
- The law is intended to counter legal actions or detentions that the Russian government considers to be outside the scope of international law.
- This development follows increasing tensions between Russia and international legal institutions regarding the jurisdiction over Russian officials and citizens.
- Proponents of the bill argue it is a necessary measure to ensure the safety and sovereignty of Russian people in an increasingly complex global political environment.
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He’s a Duma-ss
You realize the media is finished when you hear a journalist suggesting Putin might be arrested, and another journalist talking about a ghost fleet, when France, Belgium, and Spain were the biggest buyers of Russian gas this year. A record, even. LOL. I feel sorry for the Europeans, you've destroyed yourselves.
Do you really think the Russian government has the ability to ' rescue ' its citizens out of foreign prisons 😅
russia is officially a clownshow
It's to prepare for any future detention of Russian citizens by UN or other international court such as ICC, which many countries, including US & China, view as a tool of repression by European liberals
Putin is making sure he'll be rescued after he's arrested by the ICC. He doesn't want to rot and die in jail like Serbia's Milosevic.
Like any of the major states give a flip about permission for the extracting a person (willing or unwilling). USA, Israel, China, Russia and Saudi Arabia will do the job and might ask for forgiveness later.
EU response should be a total block of Russian citizens entering the west, for any reason. Tada. No Russians, no Russian prisoners.
Russia law doesnt apply elsewhere 😂
russia just writing its own stories
They are aiming this towards Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. And also Georgia that naively kept its borders open for the russians after the start of the Ukrainian war.
Germany pretend to be in war again, they didn't learn the history
He's having fun with the world.
Pretty sure Ukraine gets some billions extra for russian sabotage😴
Sounds like Putin is anticipating HIS capture by the International Criminal Court.
Russia's President Putin could potentially be detained abroad himself, as he is wanted by the ICC in The Hague on charges of war crimes in Ukraine.
This is a legalistic extension of Tsar Nicholas II's claim to be the protector of Russian dystopias. All very imperial. I assume countries will be less keen to give Russians visas in future, which may indeed be the goal of the legislation, being as the Russian government is making it more difficult for young Russians to get the qualifications needed to study and work abroad.
Let's stop this nonsense narrative about russia possibly atacking NATO. They are bankrupt, exhausted and getting humiliated by much smaller country. It's time to help Ukraine to finish the job and send russia back to dark age.
unaware host has no business conducting this interview. the wording the host used was very russian gov't friendly.
(some unprepared interviewers feign ignorance though the solution to that is to become prepared.)
Oh please children, do not moralize. All countries follow their interests first. Large countries do what they want and small countries will suffer what they have to suffer. But nice that you showed that Russia has a parliament. Read up a bit on the subject, you may learn something.
Current US admin is also talking about Multipolar world. It would be terribly naive for NATO to count on US for anything too critical at this point in time. That doesn't mean the rest can't come together for a response, though.
….I just find the guest to be a little optimistic about how US will respond, considering it was quite heated over Greenland. And current Iran conflict. And Trump holds a grudge.
Thank you for this. Very informative. I shared it widely
International law/ UN charter , respects the right of self determination.
Like , can you say … Crimea, Donbass, etc.
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Hypothesis: the law is intended to actually bring back citizens arrested elsewhere, so they can be enlisted to the army.
A prelude to attacking other european countries not yet in NATO
It cannot even free its captured soldiers by Ukrainians unless without a prisoners exchange. Nothing much.
Meanwhile it cannot even finish the Special Military Operation 😂
I see it different. Russia now sees that the US is tied down in Iran and Trump has shown his unwillingness to go full on and has made the US look weak. So, the time is ripe for him because he knows that the US won't get involved.
This is always Russia's move since they've had an emperor. America's version of this is invading countries for oil.
Well, trump didn't ask for any approval in Venezuela 😅😅😅
The problem with these new Russians is they see the map of the World and they see Russia in it and assume Russia is big because its powerful and important. Nah guy, its mostly land that most of the World didn't want.
What did Germany and Europe say about brutal repression of Russian language in Ukraine.
Evidence to be found in text of Minsk Agreement.
what they gonna do? send an angry letter to other nations abroad lol? they cant even rescue their own people thats on their backyard 😂😂😂
This is their playbook. We've been being warned about this since Russia invaded Georgia or even before. This is the same playbook used by Germany to take the Sudetenland as well. NATO needs to be strong and unified, or else the Baltics are in real trouble.
He doesn’t want the Maduro treatment
Well,there is only one answer to that. Send any russians in europe back to russia, stop giving touridt visas and lock the gates to any russian and belorussian. Stop funding any eu countries allowing russian commerce and dialogues unless through recognised and monitored links. We need to wake up and start having a spine. Furthermore the eu must pass a law to do exactly the same. If the russians do not resopect sovereignity laws then they do not deserve to be treated with respect.
dw propagandist try brainwash us again. we are not as too low intellectual as u. its not as easy as u think. u guys are so childish, clown, shallow, narrow,……
This is not an interview , its a childish whispering 😂
So by that standard, the USA could enact a similar law and intervene to free Americans that are currently imprisoned (some wrongfully) in Russian prisons.
The US should pass a similar law to be especially used against countries who claim Universal Jurisdiction.
Liberate Russians stuck in America
lol this will go well
The most immediate issue I can see is that separatists cannot leave Transnistria because it is a breakaway province of Moldova, and Moldova and Ukraine will not allow passage through their territory. Both, for obvious reasons. So, Russians in Transnistria are stuck in Transnistria. Not prisoners and not denied commodities, but Putin could use this as an excuse to invade Moldova (non-NATO) and open a new front to Odesa in Ukraine.
I think the law is intended to reinforce the idea that Russians are opressed everywhere, in order to deter even more Russians from leaving the country. Russia certainly cannot afford to act on it, except maybe in very weak and isolated countries, or its own satelite-states.
What is NATO article 5 😂 Ukraine send drones into Latvia and NATO didn't even blink 😂😂next time it will be a missile jummed and will strike something big in NATO 😂😂we will see what will happen.
They don't even pick up their wounded from the battlefield, how are they going to forcefully remove Russians from other countries?
When Europe needs saving again just like in the second world war , Russia will have to cross NATO border and walk through all the way to Berlin once more and liberate you don't worry.
Truly small wonder our world is at risk when malcontents and uneducated people like these two fill our airwaves with their vacuous drivel!