Sorry, guys, I have to go sleep. Photon's latest posts are good and deserve a response, but I'm too sleepy to do it. I'm glad that I at least shed some light about what the law is about and created a bit more intellegent and unbiased discussion about it. To end it for now, I will leave you with an interview of Sergey Guriev — a man, who fled Russia escaping the possible arrest by Putin for political reasons. Guriev has all the reasons in the world to hate Russia, current government and all — and the interview had plenty of well-supported points about issues in Russia. Yet this is what he says in this interview (I tried to find the same in his english-language interviews, but there were none, so you need to google-translate
this link (quoted by google translater, so no grammer):
If you open a newspaper here in France, or America, or in England, there will be written about Russia scary horror. There's Russia looks much worse than it actually is.
Reputation at us, of course, much worse than we are.