Thread: Bowing to Russia

Another balanced couple of biased articles..
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/9289-28.cfm
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/9290-26.cfm
Our major isn't going to surrender!

Originally Posted by adoc

That's not what the article stated, you missed the message. Simply put, the article stated that there was no democracy before Putin, and there is now. The Washington Post stated that there was democracy before Putin, there was democracy under Putin for some time, but the country is backsliding now, as the Khodorkovsky's case demonstrates. I am stating there was anything but democracy before Putin and during. It does not surprize me though, Putin is after all the Yeltsin's henchman and his primary task is and always was to protect Mr.Yeltsin's orifices.

The rebuttal states that Mr. Sharansky does not know what democracy is, and that he is confusing democracy with anarchy. It states that there is no regress because there is progress. I am stating that none of them know what democracy is (or they don't care to find that out), that Mr. Retired Major and Russian Linguist is confusing the unaccountable bureaucratic machinery with democracy. I am stating that there is no regress because there is nothing to regress from even now. (Phew, I repeated it a sufficient number of times I hope) On the other hand, what does Mr Retired Major know? He learns lessons in patriotism and "a sense of someone's soul" from President Bush.

Ahhh....

god, you wear me out

Майoры всех стран - соединяйтесь

In the Khodarkovsky context I'd say
Майоры и мажоры всех стран соединяйтесь!

It's wondeful to see a bunch of poor people rallying near the doors of the cort-house to back up super-wealthy Khodarkovsky for he was deprived of his oil company and went under trial. And while human rights activists were running in Europe dinning about Khodarkovsky issue, in Baltic countries, Russian veterans of WWII, very old men, poor, without trhe right to take part in elections, went under trial for fighting fascism. Where are the human right activists?

For me, the most important is what Khodarkovsky said to Andrey Karaukov in the interview in the TV program of "Момент истины". Karaulov was like 'why do you finance both wings in the Duma, the left and right whings, Kommunists and Liberals?' Khodarkovsky answered 'I need to have the authority counterbalanced, I'm trying to buy as many people in the Duma as possible in order not to let Putin rule the Duma'
So it seems like everyone knows that the oponion of ordinary voters matters nothing for Khodarkovskiy or Putin or whoever in the country.

Originally Posted by adoc

Actually I found that funny too
Майoры всех стран - соединяйтесь

http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/9296-29.cfm
A couple of the major's articles more.. and all we will love Mr.Putin ))).