Re: Dmitry Bogatov arrested in Moscow

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 08:20:10PM +0300, Alexander Gerasiov wrote:
> Nope. Russian non-profit organization can't accept money from people
> who are not Russian citizen, because if they do, they have many legal
> difficulties in the finance and bureaucracy (Foreign Agent status means
> very often and very large financial report to control agencies and many
> other hurts). So most of them decided to stay away from foreign money
> (grants, awards, private donations).

This is a nice example of why Debian should stay far away from this. We 
have neither the mandate nor the expertise (as a project) to evaluate 
and react to situations like this. There are other organizations which 
do have that mandate and expertise, and if someone feels strongly about 
this sort of thing it is better to contribute to one of those 
organizations than to attempt to make Debian into something it is not.

Mike Stone