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Friday, September 12, 2025

The London Times reports that the Trump Administration has been deporting Russian dissenters who fled Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime, sending them back to Russia, and even apparently helping Russian authorities persecute them: On August 27, less than a fortnight after President Trump's summit with Putin in Alaska, dozens of Russians were rounded up and deported. Among them was Artyom Vovchenko, 27, a deserter from the war in Ukraine. He is facing a prison sentence of up to decade or could be sent back to the front line. ... . Although the deportation of Russians to Russia has accelerated under Trump, the policy began under his predecessor Joe Biden. According to Dmitry Valuev, 46, president of Russian America for Democracy in Russia, an organisation that supports political refugees, deportations under Biden were smaller in number.

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This disappeared a few nubutes ago on DR so, due to iys shocking importance I wanted ti return it! What's going on around here?

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I guess I'm the only poster who thinks free nation should, as a free nation, should honor our promises of asylum for refugees escaping tyranical dictators? Really? What has this nation become under Trump?

#1 | Posted by danni at 2025-09-13 01:15 AM | Reply

I was only following orders from my commandant!
Donald Trump

Do

#2 | Posted by danni at 2025-09-13 06:21 PM | Reply

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