Фото: Митинг на Болотной площади. 10 декабря 2011

[00elen]

Народу на митинг пришло действительно очень много. Причем контингент был совершенно разный: от школьников и студентов, до людей в возрасте. Тут были и националисты, и монархисты, и преданные приверженцы различных политических партий, но  в основном это были обычные люди

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Putin

[anonymous]

What to say?... Maybe it is not a perfect world and that is the point at this time why Mr Putin fits. Mr Putin maybe not every body's cup of tea but from a person who has seen Russia with and without him I would suggest that both he and Russia has something to benefit from him serving another term in office. Democracy is a fantastic thing but without control it is called anarchy and different societies need different levels of control in the same way that an immature teenager needs more control than a mature adult. Russian with respect is still having growing pains from the regime change of communism and needs nurturing probably a bit more than other democracies that exist else where and Mr Putin to be frank is the guy to do it. He faced off the oligarchs that threatened to use their ill gotten gains for power play and has step by step taken Russian into the 21st century albeit with maybe a little more control than UK but he pulled you through.. He reminds me of Oliver Cromwell. One day Russia will have the luxury to play with more complex democracy but at this time Russia needs firm and strong guidance. It needs the hand of Putin for a while longer. Lets be honest, all democracies are only democratic once every 4 or 5 years so it comes down to accountability at the end of term and I see know one on the horizon that has Putin's record that on balance has done more good for your country than bad. At this juncture you need a kick arse strong leader and you have one so use him..

Re: Putin

[00elen]

Your argumentation on the point that Russia needs Putin is based on the «belief » that Putin is capable to bring country to democracy. But let’s be earnest - even if Russia is not yet ready to the true democracy, to make a country to be a democratic one, its authority (Putin in our case) should at least be democratic itself. I can give you the example of Turkey here. Turkey had authoritarian president in 1920-1930 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and country had one-party regime; still he considered this situation as a temporal one and supported other political party to appear on the political scene.

What we see in Russia?

• New political parties are forbidden to appear and be registered accordingly, for example, Parnas party. As consequence they cannot take part in elections.


• People suffer from violations of their Constitutional rights. The simplest example is the 31 article of Constitution that allows people the freedom of assembly. But we don’t have it in reality, meetings and gatherings are forbidden and recently 300 people have got to a jail and they are still there now because of it.


• All our president administration is rolling in luxury, spending their time on big expensive yachts and etc.  Though they cannot earn that much.


• All laws that appear defend oligarchs and their large businesses, but companies of small and middle size put into noncompetitive position.


• The education is falling down rapidly. Graduated students don’t know anything and still they have high expectations from life wanting all these expensive attributes (phones, iPads, cars and so on).  It is a very dangerous social situation.


• It was reported recently that we are possible to loose also our medical care. With demographic decrease it makes the situation even worse.


• Courts work for government only making decisions in the state interest. Khodorkovsky’s case and so on. There were people who were legally stolen from their businesses like that. We had the biggest cosmetic shops net in Russia and its owner were taken in prison because of something and spent there long long time. During this time his business got ruined because all commercial credits were closed. Then he was approved of cause and set free.


• We have already got lower than Nigeria (see  my article and the Forbes rating )

Putin has built the police state with the highest corruption level than we had ever. We had a corruption before but it was rather chaotic corruption, but now the corruption got to be well organized.

This way doesn’t lead to any kind of democracy whatsoever. We are close to fascism regime where people exist for and only for THE STATE. It is the regime that has the only purpose to feed its elites.When I read the foreign magazines many years ago and I read negative information about Russia I thought all these information to be highly exaggerated, far-fetched, and untrue. Now if I read it I understand that it’s the only true information that can be believed in.