Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina has pleaded guilty to treason charges after she was arrested for donating money to a charity supporting Ukraine.
Russian prosecutors are seeking a 15-year sentence after the security services accused Ms Karelina of collecting money that was used to purchase tactical supplies for the Ukrainian army.
She was detained by authorities in Yekaterinburg, about 1,600km (1,000 miles) east of Moscow after a family visit in February.
The sentence comes one week after Russia and the West carried out the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War, where 24 people jailed in seven different countries were exchanged.
Ms Karelina’s lawyer said the prosecutors’ request for a 15-year sentence in a penal colony was too severe as the defendant had cooperated with the investigation.
Mikhail Mushailov also said it was “impossible” for Ms Karelina to have been included in the recent prisoner exchange, because an exchange can only happen once the court verdict comes into force.
When people ask why we need digital money with high privacy guarantees, this is why.
Taler, credit cards, money transfers… all allow have the structure to allow this to happen.
I’d consider any of the current cryptocurrencies to be overall failures. They’re a way for tech-bros to piss away money on “investments” and for Chinese-owned mining firms to make a profit at the expense of the environment.
I agree that an anonymous digital currency is a fantastic idea, but how do you keep it from just turning into another Bitcoin?
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/cryptocurrency/
We focus on the attributes of possible solutions, and use it for transactions.
The page you linked talks about privacy, but it makes no mention of abuse by investors or the environmental impact of miners.
Nobody will deny that cryptocurrency is good for privacy, but that doesn’t negate all of its damaging aspects.
FUD regarding Taler. This kind of thing is exactly what could not be traced with a Taler based payment.
Remember the threat in this scenario is the authoritarian government with full banking authority to legally inspect all transactions, as well as token timings.
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding how Taler works. Yes KYC exists for it, but the exchange can only know that you exchanged money for Taler token, not what you spend them on. And on a cross-border payment like this the government doesn’t have “full banking authority” either.
- Commit a crime.
- Be detained.
- ???
- profit
“I like criminals if the victim is someone I don’t like!”
(Almost) Nobody here likes autocrats, my friend. But I guess everyone here has a problem with people who violate the law. Now I can see that the laws in Russia are not what you, personally, think is right. FWIW, each country has laws which other countries don’t agree with.
But I guess everyone here has a problem with people who violate the law.
That’s stupid. You can use this argument to justify basically everything, including Nazi Germany.
That’s a horrible take. Most people don’t care about whether things are legal, they care about whether things are morally right.
I’ll note that I don’t have a legal background, so the following is largely intuition.
Law is usually supposed to codify moral behavior. It’s a way to help different people talk about right/wrong and help them share moral concepts. So far, so good. However, not only does law fall short in terms of codifying moral behavior quite frequently, we also start from our morals and cross-check whether law aligns with those.
(Almost) Nobody here likes autocrats, my friend.
Yet I have the feeling I found one of the few that does.
I guess everyone here has a problem with people who violate the law. Now I can see that the laws in Russia are not what you, personally, think is right. FWIW, each country has laws which other countries don’t agree with.
Alrighty, let’s put that to the test: do you want Snowden and Assange locked up behind bars?
e: “Runterwählen ist kein Gegenargument”, don’t forget that… ;)
I cleared a report against this comment.
I still think it’s a bad take, especially concerning NATO randomly not wanting to end war. However, I don’t think the comment violated any guidelines
NATO randomly not wanting to end war
How does that not fall under misinformation?
That takes an insane amount
of idiocy to use trackable money attached to your passport to donate to the opposite side of the war. And it takes an insane amount of idiocy to think that you should donate in the first place. Donating refugees? Sure, they need help. Donating to people who will only make the war last longer but not solve the cause? Why? NATO can stop the war any day, but they don’t want to. And until NATO says “stop” no amount of money will save Ukraine, Russia has resources to continue this for years more, Ukraine doesn’t have those resources and 99% relies on Europe support, or they would cease to exist already.balls to sentence someone to life for a fucking donation.
Get fucked Putin, we will all dance/piss on your grave.
They already cannot properly equip their military and are wasting their soldiers at the front. What are they supposed to fight with?
Guess thats how they spell honor over there
Although fucked up, I’ll match her donation! I invite others to do the same.
It is probably legal in other countries, so I don’t think this is as brave as you make it sound.
Doesnt matter, money goes to ukraine, supports Ukrainians (and troops). Doesnt have to be much.
I dont do this because its brave but because of the gesture and helping Ukraine. Its disposable income so I can mis it but even a very small amount makes a difference if a lot of people act on donating.
Slava Ukraini
