Meet the new Russia, same as the old Russia

The Federal Security Service, successor to the feared Soviet KGB, will now be able to summon and imprison people it believes are about to carry out a crime.

In a statement yesterday, the Kremlin said the security service, known as the FSB, would now be able to issue warnings to those ‘whose acts create the conditions for the committing of a crime’…

‘It’s a step towards a police state,’ said Vladimir Ulas, a member of the Communist Party.

‘It’s effectively a ban on any real opposition activity.’