"Fined for yellow and blue shoes: How Russian laws smother dissent"

[DrLeftover]

One man was fined for wearing blue-and-yellow shoes - seen as a violation of laws regulating political demonstrations. And a journalist from Vologda Region, Antonida Smolina, was visited by police after someone complained about photographs she had posted online showing her posing in a yellow coat against a blue sky.

more:

Fined for yellow and blue shoes: How Russian laws smother dissent

Since the invasion of Ukraine, the measures used to clamp down on Kremlin critics have swelled.

www.bbc.com

 

[MrDawn]

That poor woman. This is so sad. I wish Russia wouldn't do this to their own people. It's not right.

 

[Webster]

more:

Fined for yellow and blue shoes: How Russian laws smother dissent

Since the invasion of Ukraine, the measures used to clamp down on Kremlin critics have swelled.

www.bbc.com

Its' the colors of Ukraine; apparently, yellow is verboten in Russia.
I'm surprised they haven't fined and banned the sun from shining there....

 

[DrLeftover]

When the talking heads on TV and radio go on about how oppressive the US is, the rest of us can simply laugh at them.

 

[Webster]

When the talking heads on TV and radio go on about how oppressive the US is, the rest of us can simply laugh at them.

Reminds me of how a BBC "journalist" tried to browbeat El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele about human rights and shared values and Bukele took that "journalist" to the woodshed.

 

[Webster]

I think that's the interview in question, @DrLeftover.