St.Petersburg, Sep 10 : A number of elected officials in Russia were questioned by police following their made calls to impeach of Russian president Vladimir Putin, a media report claimed.In an unusual display of opposition in the nation, local officials of the Smolninskoye municipality in the St.Petersburg area appealed to the Russian Duma to remove the President for what they described as the treasonous acts of high Treason, CNN reported.
The person who wrote the appeal, of the petition, Dmitry Palyuga, posted the appeal on Twitter in which he claimed Putin was the one responsible for “(1) the demise of young, able-bodied Russian men who could serve as a workforce more efficiently than soldiers; (2) Russia’s economic slowdown and brain loss; (3) NATO’s expansion eastward, which included the addition of Finland as well as Sweden to “double” its borders with Russia; (4) the reverse result of the “special military operation’ in Ukraine.”
Palyuga and deputy Nikita Yuferev posted on Twitter an order issued to them by St.Petersburg police for their “discrediting of the ruling establishment”.
Palyuga later revealed that two of the four deputies who were summoned were released by police and are expected to be punished, CNN reported.
Kremlin has been trying difficult to block the opposition of the Russian attack of Ukraine.
After launching a massive invasion in February the Russian government swiftly moved to close down the remaining remnants of the free press in Russia and introduced new laws that impose harsh criminal penalties for the dissemination of “fake” news.
According to OVD-Info, an independent organization that monitors detentions in Russia 16437 people have been detained or detained in connection with anti-war activism in Russia from the beginning of the war.
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