There has been some interesting discussion within the blogosphere about the new FSB law. The best I’ve seen has been in A Good Treaty, with an excellent dissection of the law (here) and a follow-up looking at my and Leonid Nikitinskii’s take on the law (here) which has also led to some lively and insightful debate in the comments section. Well worth a look.
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Debate on the FSB law
Posted by Mark Galeotti on July 28, 2010
https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/debate-on-the-fsb-law/
New FSB law: not such a bad thing after all
The new law on the Federal Security Service (FSB) which has been approved by the lower chamber and is pretty much guaranteed to reach the statute books, is on the face of it a retrograde step, easily characterised by its critics as another measure to bring back the Soviet-era police state. After all, it relegalises the KGB’s old practice of ‘precautionary conversations’, of calling in dissidents, liberals and other presumed trouble-makers to warn them to mend their ways, a piece of heavy-handed intimidation against which only the most hardened critic of the state is impervious. However, I’d suggest that there is scope to see some shred of silver lining in this cloud.
Posted by Mark Galeotti on July 16, 2010
https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/new-fsb-law-not-such-a-bad-thing-after-all/
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