‘Step by Step, Malgin Says, Kremlin Transforming ‘Foreign Agents into Full-Fledged Enemies of the People’

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Nov. 11 – Since it introduced the concept of “foreign agent” in 2012, the Putin regime has “gradually, step by step and little by little” transformed that term from a mostly meaningless by highly offensive word and thus is making those it so designates “full-fledged enemies of the people” without the right to work or even survive, Andrey Malgin says.
    This process is near completion with the Duma set to adopt a law that will deprive those so designated of the right to receive income for creative work and possibly to take up a measure that will confiscate all their property so that the money can go to support Putin’s war in Ukraine (svoboda.org/a/lishentsy-andrey-maljgin-o-zakonah-protiv-vragov-naroda-/33196580.html).
    Had Putin done this all at once, the Radio Liberty commentator says, there might have been international outrage over how the current Kremlin leader is restoring Stalinist norms; but because he has done it bit by bit, most people have failed to recognize just how far he has gone and continues to go.