USA TODAY / AP: ... The legislation published Wednesday in the government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta widens the interpretation of treason to include activities such as financial or consultative assistance to a foreign state, an international or a foreign organization.
While the previous law describes high treason as espionage or other assistance to a foreign state damaging Russia’s external security, the new legislation expands the definition by dropping the word “external.”
Rights activists warned that the new law is so vague that it would allow the government to brand any dissenter a traitor… (more)
