Paul
Goble
Staunton, July 5 – Those who serve
as informers for the Russian secret police will now receive pensions, according
to a new law. By this action, Vladimir
Putin simultaneously corrects a shortcoming in Soviet legislation – until now,
informers couldn’t count their “service” toward a pension – while offending
ordinary Russians who see their own pensions as being at risk.
“Rossiiskaya gazeta” has published
the text of a new law that means those who work as informers for
law-enforcement organs will be able to count that toward the receipt of the
pension and that the various organs will be required to pay into the government’s
general pension fund (rg.ru/2015/07/03/zuchok.html).
This change in Russian law should
make it even easier for the FSB and other police agencies of the Russian state
to recruit informers and thus help Putin not only fight crime and terrorism,
the ostensible reasons for expanding such networks, but also spread fear of
secret surveillance to an ever-larger segment of the population.
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