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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed off on a law to confiscate the property of opponents of the war and enemies of the state. The law provides for confiscating property allegedly acquired through the dissemination of alleged false information about the Russia military or by calls to endanger Russia’s national security. How the law will be applied, or those offences defined, remains unclear. A decree with Putin’s approval was published in the Russian legal database on Wednesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov tried to pre-empt criticism of the new law on Wednesday, saying that “we beli…

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