So, as of today, VTB chief Kostin can demand the "right to be forgotten" and the removal from the internet of my investigations into how the management of this state-owned bank stole $120 million in drilling rig procurement. Remember that case? I published it more than three years ago, so now they can order it to be forgotten.
Transneft (Tokarev and Vainshtok) will order everyone to forget how billions were embezzled during the construction of the ESPO pipeline (Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean).
My post "How They Loot at Gazprom" was published on December 24, 2008 — I hereby order it forgotten.
And as for how Putin siphoned off budget money through foreign trade deals back when he was still at St. Petersburg City Hall, you should have forgotten that long ago if you don’t want trouble.
It’s all unfolding in a terrifyingly fascinating way. Dystopias are becoming reality, and we no longer have the right to put on the internet anything that they don’t like. Not even opinions — just facts.
Adding a direct article on "thoughtcrime" to the criminal code may seem foolish and exaggerated now, but three years ago the very idea of the law signed today would also have seemed absurd.
No decent person can support this government. A decent person must fight it.