Esmeralda
Diamond Member
This thread is really laughable. I think all those people who think Putin and Russia are so wonderful should go live there for a couple of years: as Russian citizens, not as American visitors. They would soon find out what it is really like: repressive, oppressive, no privacy rights or civil rights, a communist dictatorship run by a puffed up old geezer with a Napoleonic complex who is reviled around the world, whose only friends are other oppressive dictators. No free speech. No 2nd Amendment. Clinging to Putin and Russia like t his and trying to make him out as a paragon is just hilarious and pitiful. You think he's so wonderful? Go live in Russia with him in charge and find out just how 'wonderful' he is. LOL
Putin's Russia (he's such a wonderful guy):
There's a lot more. Read the whole article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Russia
Still think he is a great man? A 'real' man? Someone to be respected?
Putin's Russia (he's such a wonderful guy):
In 2006 The Economist published a democracy rating, putting Russia at 102nd place among 167 countries and defining it as a "hybrid regime with a trend towards curtailment of media and other civil liberties.
According to international human rights organizations as well as domestic press, violations of human rights in Russia include widespread and systematic torture of persons in custody by police, dedovshchina (the informal system of subjection (see:hazing) of new junior conscripts) in the Russian Army, neglect and cruelty in Russian orphanages, violations of children's rights. According to Amnesty International there is discrimination, racism, and murders of members of ethnic minorities. Since 1992 at least 50 journalists have been killed across the country.
The situation in the Russian republic of Chechnya, ravaged by war, has been especially worrying. During the Second Chechen War, started in September 1999, there were summary executions and "disappearances" of civilians in Chechnya. According to the ombudsman of the Chechen Republic, Nurdi Nukhazhiyev, as of March 2007 the most complex and painful problem is finding over 2700 abducted and forcefully held citizens; analysis of the complaints of citizens of Chechnya shows that social problems ever more often come to the foreground; two years ago complaints mostly concerned violations of the right to life
There are cases of attacks on demonstrators organized by local authorities. High concern was caused by murders of opposition lawmakers and journalists Anna Politkovskaya, Yuri Schekochikhin, Galina Starovoitova, Sergei Yushenkov, lawyer Stanislav Markelov, and journalist Anastasia Baburova, as well as imprisonments of human rights defenders, scientists, and journalists like Mikhail Trepashkin, Igor Sutyagin, and Valentin Danilov.
Anna Politkovskaya [who was murdered for writing this book as well as for saying/writing other things] described in her book Putin's Russia stories of judges who did not follow "orders from the above" and were assaulted or removed from their positions.
Russian police are regularly observed practicing torture - including beatings, electric shocks, rape, asphyxiation - in interrogating arrested suspects. In 2000, human rights Ombudsman Oleg Mironov estimated that 50% of prisoners with whom he spoke claimed to have been tortured. Amnesty International reported that Russian military forces in Chechnya engage in torture
In the most extreme cases, hundreds of innocent people from the street were arbitrary arrested, beaten, tortured, and raped by special police forces. Such incidents took place not only in Chechnya, but also in Russian towns of Blagoveshensk, Bezetsk, Nefteyugansk, and others
Torture and humiliation are also widespread in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The term dedovshchina refers to systematic abuse of new conscripts by more long-serving soldiers. Many young men are killed or commit suicide every year because of it. It is reported that some young male conscripts are forced to work as prostitutes for "outside clients
There's a lot more. Read the whole article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Russia
Still think he is a great man? A 'real' man? Someone to be respected?
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