Russia and Free Speech

[arcticpenguin]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=7&u=/nm/20030207/od_nm/language_dc

The State Duma lower house overwhelmingly approved a bill entrenching Russian as the "state language" and barring "offensive," "obscene" and "vulgar" words. Foreign words are also outlawed when Russian-language equivalents exist.

The legislation Wednesday provided no specific penalties for offenders

How French of them!

[Brown]

Comrades! Get out your NewSpeak dictionaries!

[Reginald]

Double plus ungood.


I suppose that means my adding of

"A get-get-get on down, I said a get-get-get on down" to the official Anthem will out of the question now then!

:(