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However, you can get a political asylum if you have a history of opposing Putin and you are not safe in Russia because of that anymore.

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No one who called for the government to end the war on social media or IRL is safe. It is black letter of law that it is punishable by imprisonment.

Do you have any examples of someone being imprisoned for this? Or you're just making assumptions? So far all I see is that everyone detained for participation in anti-war protests in Russia were released after questioning and being issued warning.

Well, since it's not like the US where all this information is easily accessible and mostly reliable public record, most of what we have is interviews with people who have been released (and therefore must not have been sentenced to prison), but that still reveals that beatings, threats of rape and murder, and fines even for things which are on paper not illegal (like single-person protests, which are being processed as illegal organized protests because of similar subject matter to each other), are routine.

https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/russia-protesters-arres...

The existence of the law is not an assumption.

I'm following OVD-info reports: https://reports.ovdinfo.org/no-to-war-en#1 Do you consider it a reputable source? Nothing like you're describing has happened so far.

If you knew you would be reentering your home country as a criminal under a new free speech suppressing law, would you wing it and gamble 15 years of your life or would you hope to get asylum?

Based on what you wrote so far, I am grateful you do not work in asylum application processing.

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