| − | [[File:Dec 2016.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Klobuchar, McCain, Ukrainian President [[Poroshenko]], [[Lindsey Graham]] and [[Azov Battalion]] Nazi [[Sergai Dybynyn]], December 2016.<ref>https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1698518761194602634</ref>]] | + | [[File:Dec 2016.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[Klobuchar]], [[McCain]], Ukraine President [[Poroshenko]], Lindsey Graham and [[Azov Battalion]] Nazi [[Sergai Dybynyn]], December 2016.<ref>https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1698518761194602634</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]].<ref>[https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=2023+Graham+comments+sparked+widespread+outrage+in+Russia&d=4192955546738&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=8wLLsMmHd2RVq5HCMMzr8WVY9O9gtbX_ Russia condemns U.S. Senator Graham's comments on the death of Russians An arrest warrant was issued for Graham.] ''Reuters'', May 28, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/05/29/russia-issues-arrest-warrant-for-lindsey-graham-1363308/ Russia issues arrest warrant for Lindsey Graham], May 29, 2023, Ailan Evans</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]] with the assistance of its [[Western alliance|Western]] and [[Banderite]] collaborators,<ref>[https://youtu.be/NpY6WUscois Russophobia in the Third Reich], New Normal Chronicles, Feb 2, 2023.</ref> Russia has had some of the strictest anti-hate speech laws on the planet that give aid and comfort to the enemy. | | 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]].<ref>[https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=2023+Graham+comments+sparked+widespread+outrage+in+Russia&d=4192955546738&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=8wLLsMmHd2RVq5HCMMzr8WVY9O9gtbX_ Russia condemns U.S. Senator Graham's comments on the death of Russians An arrest warrant was issued for Graham.] ''Reuters'', May 28, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/05/29/russia-issues-arrest-warrant-for-lindsey-graham-1363308/ Russia issues arrest warrant for Lindsey Graham], May 29, 2023, Ailan Evans</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]] with the assistance of its [[Western alliance|Western]] and [[Banderite]] collaborators,<ref>[https://youtu.be/NpY6WUscois Russophobia in the Third Reich], New Normal Chronicles, Feb 2, 2023.</ref> Russia has had some of the strictest anti-hate speech laws on the planet that give aid and comfort to the enemy. |