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by cybice 2501 days ago
Google can use Russian Constitution:

31. Citizens of the Russian Federation shall have the right to assemble peacefully, without weapons, hold rallies, meetings and demonstrations, marches and pickets.

Article 29

1. Everyone shall be guaranteed the freedom of ideas and speech.

2. The propaganda or agitation instigating social, racial, national or religious hatred and strife shall not be allowed. The propaganda of social, racial, national, religious or linguistic supremacy shall be banned.

3. No one may be forced to express his views and convictions or to reject them.

4. Everyone shall have the right to freely look for, receive, transmit, produce and distribute information by any legal way. The list of data comprising state secrets shall be determined by a federal law.

5. The freedom of mass communication shall be guaranteed. Censorship shall be banned.

PS. Im Russian and live here.
5 comments
azangru 2501 days ago
There is also federal act number 54-FZ, which says that the local authorities should be notified of the planned event (Article 5, section 4); and if the respective authority does not approve the event then it shall not be held (Article 5, section 5) [1]. This latter norm is criticized for being not entirely constitutional [2]; but it is a part of the present Russian legal framework. Should Google in any way be bound by this federal act?

1- [In Russian] http://www.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?rnd=91E57842AD2...

2- https://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/default.aspx?p...

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ashleyn 2501 days ago
Didn't seem to work very well when Russia banned "gay propaganda." Russian constitution doesn't really seem worth the paper it's printed on and more or less is run by conservative-democratic mobs.
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chupasaurus 2501 days ago
The penalties for involvement in non-permitted assemblies are legal due to article 55.3 of the same Constitution. The same article is used for Internet filtering and other !!fun!! stuff.
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mc32 2501 days ago
Similar for the Chinese constitution but that has little meaning in practice.
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cybice 2501 days ago
And on "illegal" events, the main thing Russian citizen is asking - that government must use our constitution too
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