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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy can't we get along with Russia asks Tucker (the eyebrows of Doom) Carlson?
I mean C'mon-
Could you be any more obvious you smarmy little fecal flake.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)President who isnt Putin or a corrupt oligarch.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)CanonRay
(14,101 posts)Putin wants to rebuild the Soviet Union
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)they want to steal everything we have. Their own people cant be squeezed much further.
Karadeniz
(22,513 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,370 posts)I liken Russia, both presently and historically, to the Klingons in Star Trek.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)(Background: Russia de-criminalized beating your woman in 2017--as long as you don't leave too many marks.)
The dubious statement is part of Russias official response to questions posed by the European Court of Human Rights relating to four domestic violence cases filed against Russia. One of the four women who sought redress from the European court is Margarita Gracheva, whose husband chopped off her hands with an ax. As is often the case in Russia, weeks before this happened, a police officer dismissed Grachevas complaint about her husbands routine threats as a private matter.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/11/20/are-russian-authorities-trolling-domestic-violence
Actually, it sounds like a Republican paradise.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)How about we start there and work backwards you fucking bag of day old shit?!?!
VOX
(22,976 posts)Mob rule has a whole different meaning in Russia. The KGB-trained Putin has been in the highest offices for what? Some 17 years at least?
Russia is anything but a democracy. Political dissidents are routinely imprisoned and/or executed gangster-style (poisoned, thrown from multi-story buildings, etc.)
Russia has such a blood-soaked history that brutal methods are commonplace. Remember Pussy Riot, the young womens street-performance group, who, in 2011, publicly spoke out about feminism, LGBT rights, and opposition to a dictatorial Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church? They were jailed for nearly two years.