How to get arrested in Russia? Just wear blue and yellow

The New Voice of Ukraine
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Russian security forces believe that the public display of blue and yellow items is prohibited
Russian security forces believe that the public display of blue and yellow items is prohibited

For this reason, a nursing home employee was arrested on May 9 because of a blue and yellow jacket he wore.

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Ironically, a 22-year-old man from Volkhov, near St. Petersburg, was recently arrested after showing the blue and yellow flag of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

"The clampdown highlights uncertainty within paranoid Russian officials of what is and is not deemed permissible within an increasingly totalitarian system," the intelligence wrote.

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In a somewhat surprising move, the ultra-nationalist, pro-war Liberal Democratic party criticized these detentions, though this likely has to do with the party’s colors being blue and yellow.

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