SiD Wrote:Yalta1945 Wrote:I see.
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Let’s look at another phobia – xenophobia in Russia, and what the same author who wrote notes on “a shield of a passport” said about it:
“In various recent opinion polls in Russia, more than 50 percent of the respondents supported the "Russia for Russians" slogan. By “Russians,” these respondents mean not the citizens of the Russian Federation, but only ethnic Russians (russkie), preferably with a "Slavic face."
Cryptic or open racism has deeply infiltrated the Russian society. Racist arguments have made their way into both violent youth sub-cultures and prime-time television shows. Many Russians would see representatives of both ethnic Georgians and Ossetians as equally alien elements when meeting them within the ethnic Russian heartland. The idea that the ethnic Russian population is deeply sympathetic to the fate of the South Ossetians in Georgia, even if they are citizens of the Russian Federation, is unconvincing. Having been largely silent for many years about what the Russian federal armed forces have been doing to the Chechens since 1994, Russians should not take offense if the outside world does not give much credibility to their alleged humanitarian alarm about what is happening in the Caucasus these days."
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Russia has certainly many domestic problems unsolved. But the war can make them even worse.
Protecting our citizens wont make anything worse than it is.
Your citizens established their government on the territory of another sovereign state and they seek to hand over this territory to Russia. There is no other place on the Earth where fraction of foreign state’s citizens decides on handing over the territory of their living to another state.
SiD Wrote:Now autor is using our internal problems to justify his rusophobia and anti russian attitude.
You probably have it written in your algorithm of conducting discussions: IF no argument can be found to respond to the opponent’s opinion, THEN accuse him of russophobia. All right, IF you call offsiders “Russophobes”, THEN how do you call insiders? “People’s enemies” OR “Country’s enemies” OR “Motherland’s traitors”? Wasn’t it Politkovskaya who was given one of these labels before she was killed on the day of Putin’s birthday (a gift to the president). Two years passed since her murder, and this is how people answer to the question what has changed in Russia:
Igor Yakovenko, Secretary General of the Russian Union of Journalists Wrote:Of course the country changed for the worse.
Alexander Podrabinek, editor-in-chief of the Prima-News information agency Wrote:I would say that over these two years, those tendencies which first surfaced after Politkovskaya’s murder became more readily apparent. They were exhibited in all their force. Before, the authorities allowed for violence against individual people, and today they don’t stop at violence against neighboring countries. The celebration of insolence and cynicism is marching ahead at full speed. The authorities are only growing stronger in this celebration
Mikhail Kriger, human rights activist Wrote:Freedom and truth have become scarcer. There is not one person who you can count on, knowing that he won’t betray you. There is less justice
Paul Klebnikov, another journalist critical of the Kremlin, was also shot dead. Yuri Shchekochikhin was poisoned.
According to Reporters Without Borders, an international organization of journalists, 21 journalists have been murdered since March 2000. In 2007, the International News Safety Institute said Russia was the country with the second largest number of journalists killed in the previous 10 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jou..._in_Russia
Shchekochikhin used to be a member of the pro-democratic Interregional Group in the USSR Congress – together with Nobel prize winner Andrei Sakharov, Galina Starovoitova, Yuri Afanasyev, Gavriil Popov, Anatoly Sobchak, Sergei Stankevich, and Boris Yeltsin. Galina Starovoitova was shot dead, and these were members of Zhirinovski’s party who made it. The same party lifted later the main suspect in Litvinenko’s murder case to the second place on their list in Russian parliamentarian elections. Sobchak, Putin’s former mentor at the university, died in Kaliningrad after having tea with a man who had served in GRU and KGB, a close friend (as he said) of Putin. ((
Even Stankevich who didn’t seem to fight imperialistic tendencies in Russia had to ask for asylum in Poland a few years ago. Y. Afanasyev, an active critic of Putin’s politics, had to eventually leave Rector’s place at his university for political reasons, too.)) That’s the reality in Russia: those whom the central government dislikes are in great danger.
This abusive power exists thanks to you, Russian chauvinists and imperialists.
Now I got why there is no opposition to you on this forum from Russia. People are scared of being traced by the state if they start posting anti-Kremlinist statements on the internet.
SiD Wrote:intersting does autor knows how many nationalities are presented in Russia? Who were his respondents? i havent heard this slogan for a long time becouse it is just foolish.
Calm down, it may be Russian not the Western science that substitutes research by propaganda. Strange enough, we see meetings of Russian fascists, racistic beatings of foreigners on the streets in Russia, burning their apartments - all it appears on our TV periodically - but you pretend to know nothing of that. Maybe, you don't know that while Russian propaganda was making a lot of noise about the monument to Soviet soldier in Tallinn in 2005, while Russia was organizing provocations and riots in Estonia, neither similiar actions of moving remains of those who died in WW2 to a more proper place in Russia, nor even the existence of the monument to the Russians allied with Nazis in WW2 did not get any response from the Russian government. The monument to Russian Nazi collaborators in Moscow was broken down by private persons in 2007.
SiD Wrote:I strongly believe that it is GOVERNMENT responsability. And it must be hold responsible not people of other nationality at imidiete reach. Corruption helps much to make problem worse and sometimes even creating it.
That's maybe the key the problem that your government is always vested with such powers that make citizens defenseless against abuses of power. Citizens are daunted by "Vertical vlasti" that triumphs over any check-and-balances in practice.
SiD Wrote:Anyway it is no excuse for rusophobia that autor shown.
Again your favourite refrain. IF no argument can be found, THEN IF your opponent is offsider - make an accusation of russophobiam, ELSE call him/her “People’s enemy”, “Country’s enemy”, AND “Motherland’s traitor”.