Russia asks Elon Musk to hand over names of dissidents: MPs in Moscow want a list of Russians funded by USAid, the American aid scheme shut down by Donald Trump, to be given to the security services
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You said it yourself.. They're looking for the pretext
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Well, what I meant is that, with such shallow requirements, they already have pretext to bully practically anyone. They can just look at banking history and declare anyone who has any foreign transfers, or transfers from anyone who has any, a foreign agent. That's already almost anyone in Russia covered. Those who don't live in Russia are already foreign agents by default. The only category of people it doesn't really cover is people living in Russia but using cash only.