| − | The Russian Investigative Committee, the nation's highest [[law enforcement]] agency, opened a criminal investigation into Graham after comments he made while visiting [[fascist]] [[dictator]] [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] in [[Ukraine]]. The comments, considered [[hate speech]], sparked widespread outrage in [[Russia]]. An arrest warrant was issued for Graham.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/05/29/russia-issues-arrest-warrant-for-lindsey-graham-1363308/</ref> | + | The Russian Investigative Committee, the nation's highest [[law enforcement]] agency, opened a criminal investigation into Graham after comments he made while visiting [[fascist]] [[dictator]] [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] in [[Ukraine]]. The comments, considered [[hate speech]], sparked widespread outrage in [[Russia]]. An arrest warrant was issued for Graham.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/05/29/russia-issues-arrest-warrant-for-lindsey-graham-1363308/</ref> Since the [[Operation Barbarossa|Nazi invasion of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia]] in 1941, in which 27 million Russian and [[Soviet]] peoples, mostly civilians, were exterminated by [[Nazi Germany]] and it [[Western alliance|Western allies]], Russia has had some of the strictest anti-hate speech laws on the planet that give aid and comfort to the enemy. |