Yeah, doesn’t seem to be true. There is this law, and general attitude of treating posts on vk/facebook as a mass media—but it is ‘just’ 3 years or a huge fine, and it is rarely enforced (yet). (There might be some other relevant laws that I don’t know about, but I would be very surprised (and concerned) if they involved 10 year prison terms.) It might be wise to make some minimal precautions though—like making all posts that are not meant to be read by tovaritch major “friends only”.
Update: Prosecutor’s General Office says that protest will be treated as “participation in radical group” which is up to 6 years. Probably won’t be used too massively, at least initially.
Yeah, doesn’t seem to be true. There is this law, and general attitude of treating posts on vk/facebook as a mass media—but it is ‘just’ 3 years or a huge fine, and it is rarely enforced (yet). (There might be some other relevant laws that I don’t know about, but I would be very surprised (and concerned) if they involved 10 year prison terms.) It might be wise to make some minimal precautions though—like making all posts that are not meant to be read by tovaritch major “friends only”.
Update: Prosecutor’s General Office says that protest will be treated as “participation in radical group” which is up to 6 years. Probably won’t be used too massively, at least initially.