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by gostsamo 1857 days ago
It is a crime to make caricatures of Vladimir Putin.

Someone is downvoting this comment to death, so I'm sharing the story for the brave and curious.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/05...

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It's also apparently not advisable to beat him in ice hockey.

https://deadspin.com/vladimir-putin-scores-eight-goals-in-ru...

Pikabu is one of the most popular Russian websites (something like Reddit). Here's search results of Putin caricatures: https://pikabu.ru/tag/%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D...

It might be a crime, but it's not enforced enough, obviously.

The real reason for that law is probably to use it as a tool against dissidents.