They don't even do much that is particularly dangerous. They issue USSR ID paperwork to members of the movement and encourage people not to pay taxes or obey civic laws of the Federation. It feels like a russian version of sovereign citizens?

Clearly the state thinks this is threatening enough to designate them an "extremist organisation" to arrest and imprison people for it. The prosecution in this case is seeking 8 years.

Makes you wonder just how fragile the Russian Federation actually is if this stuff scares them enough to act this way.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think Reichsbürgers are a slightly closer comparison. Their primary gripe is the illegitimate succession of states. North American SovCits and "Freemen on the land" are completely divorced from reality and their beliefs hold more in common with flat earther types and other conspiracy theory nuts.

That's not to say Reichsbürgers or SSSR/Soviet Legalists are in touch with reality, but they're not typically on the same level of woowoo as the dudes who think "traveling" in the driver's seat of a car somehow is distinct from driving or that fringes on a flag displayed anywhere in or near a courthouse means that it's a maritime court.