Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Moscow – The Russian regional politician, who listened to President Vladimir Putin's speech last week with spaghetti on his ears, is awaiting trial next week for discrediting the army, Reuters wrote. Hanging noodles on someone's ears is the Russian equivalent of the Czech idiom hanging balls on someone's nose.
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Michail Abdalkin is a member of the regional parliament for the Samara Region for the Russian Communist Party. With noodles in his ears, he listened to Putin's almost two-hour speech last Tuesday, in which, among other things, the head of the Kremlin accused the West of starting the war in Ukraine, and according to him, Russia was trying to stop it. He also announced that Moscow is suspending its participation in the agreement limiting the number of nuclear warheads.
Abdalkin wrote on social networks on Thursday that the court in Novokuybyshevsk will deal with his case on March 7. His party has already punished him.
Since the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has intensified its persecution of opponents of the regime or this war. It introduced fines and potentially prison sentences for those who, in his opinion, discredit the Russian military by expressing their disapproval of the so-called special military operation. comment that the leadership of the Samara parliament asked him to monitor it. “Full support, totally agree, great performance,” he added. “I haven't heard anything like that in the last 23 years,” he also stated. Vladimir Putin has been at the top of the Russian power apparatus for twenty-three years.
