Thread: Classic

In your face, The West!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia ... 324323.stm

Does anyone have an applause emoticon I can borrow?

Давно пора.

Originally Posted by scotcher

...Does anyone have an applause emoticon I can borrow?

http://forum.ourprivate.net/images/smiles/appl.gif

Russians are hilarious.

They should be monitoring human rights in the West to learn some lessons.

Yep, we should clean our own backyard before complaining on the neighbor's

Perhaps it's my crummy Russian shining through, but it would appear that the stated reason for the esteemed Mr. Kucheren's proposal is crap.

Инициатива возникла после того, как известная международная организация Freedom House опубликовала доклад, в котором Россия была приравнена по уровню гражданских свобод к Северной Корее и Ливии.

"The initiative came as a result of the international org FH publishing a report in which Russia was equated in terms of Civil Liberties with NK and Libya."

Which is fine and great and wonderful, except that's not true. For the most recent rankings (which would be the most harsh on Russia since the Soviet regime) Russia received a 5 for civil liberties. NK and Libya received the lowest possible score of 7.

http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cf ... untry=6993

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Yep, we should clean our own backyard before complaining on the neighbor's

Our garden is a bit overgrown. Our neighbour's is like a trash heap. :P

Originally Posted by Бармалей

Which is fine and great and wonderful, except that's not true. For the most recent rankings (which would be the most harsh on Russia since the Soviet regime) Russia received a 5 for civil liberties. NK and Libya received the lowest possible score of 7.

http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cf ... untry=6993

I agree 100%

It seems to me that people (and apparently also this "Freedom House") tend to shape their opinions according to what the media says. I can't really see a good reason for Freedom House to change the status of Russia from "partly free" to "not free" from 2004 to 2005. In reading the motivation, it seems like a load of crap. Fuck them.

It appears to me that the protection of human rights is a very dirty business. I say business and I mean it. It's not just an occupation. When someone says something about human rights I ask just one question - Who pays him?
The consequences of human rights crusaders' activities in Russia can be felt even now so I think that this idea is rather funny. I don't think any real results will be produced but at least Russia will be able to use the same weapon against the West . Although nobody in Europe and USA will listen but still Russia could spread biased lies though the minds of people in Europe to counter-balance western human rights defenders' activities in Russia.