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Originally Posted by klinton
and i really wonder what kind of punishment would Russian Snowden get IF he would exist.
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The article 275 of Criminal Code (
Статья 275. Государственная измена) says that max punishment for a high treason is up to 20 years in prison (our laws are not that severe as you may think), but I don't think it will work in a case similar to Snowden's here. As far as we know, Snowden did not sell any US military secrets and made no damage to the US defense system (he simple had no access to that sort of information). The only thing he did, he has explained how the US government is spying on their own citizens using anti-constitutional methods. So in fact he haven't done any damage to his country.
Thus I doubt he can be considered as a State traitor here. A lot of people do the similar things in Russia. They publish technical details on internal spaying systems (e.g. COPM, COPM-2, DPI etc) and describe the methods our special services and police use to intercept the information. As far as I know nobody was sued for that so far. This sort of information is not a state secret here.