Most geopolitical commentators and analysts saw the purported hegemon’s War on Terror effective as a policy since 9/11, being replaced by a purported War on the Human Rights of other countries.
The War on Terror pretext started falling apart as a reason for maintaining hegemonic control through:
- color revolutions, attempts at regime change in other countries (striking examples: Venezuela, Cuba),
- attempts at destabilization as a pretext for hegemonic interference (most glaring example is that of Xinjian, where breathless reports appear of a Uighur genocide in that province by the Chinese state, yet, the many investigating groups that actually went to visit, find no evidence whatsoever, (not to mention no dead bodies either),
- or outright kinetic war (Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan).
- many more examples.
So a new pretext was invented and we noticed more and more references to Human Rights. This is what I mean when I refer to War on the Human Rights of other countries as a new pretext for hegemonic activities and control.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (imv as a method of getting ahead of a deep inculcation of the War on the Human Rights messaging), prepared an extensive report on human rights in various countries today. The report is too extensive to post at The Saker Blog as a whole, but it needs to be seen.
Countries that are specifically analyzed are these:
ALBANIA
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRIA
BELGIUM
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
BULGARIA
CANADA
CROATIA
CYPRUS
DENMARK
ESTONIA
FINLAND
FRANCE
GEORGIA
GERMANY
GREECE
HUNGARY
ICELAND
IRELAND
ITALY
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBOURG
MALTA
MOLDOVA
MONTENEGRO
NETHERLANDS
NEW ZEALAND
NORTH MACEDONIA
NORWAY
POLAND
PORTUGAL
ROMANIA
SLOVAKIA
SLOVENIA
SPAIN
SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND
THE CZECH REPUBLIC
UKRAINE
UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
KOSOVO*
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* The name of Kosovo is mentioned in the context of UN Security Council resolution 1244.
Abbreviations used in the text
| FRA – | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights |
| ODIHR – | OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights |
| CPT* – | European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
| ECHR – | European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms |
| ECRI* – | European Commission against Racism and Intolerance |
| ECtHR – | European Court of Human Rights |
| AC FCNM* – | Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities |
| CEDAW** – | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women |
| CERD** – | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
| CRPD** – | Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities |
| CAT** – | Committee against Torture |
| CRC** – | Committee on the Rights of the Child |
| HRCtte** – | Human Rights Committee |
| CESCR** – | Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| HRMMU – | United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine |
| CoE – | Council of Europe |
| HRC – | United Nations Human Rights Council |
| OHCR – | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| OHCHR – | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
__________________________
* Operates within the Council of Europe
** Operates within the United Nations
“War on the Human Rights of other countries”
Not only “of other countries”: human rights are being trampled by Home Land Insecurity.
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the US segment, 54 pages of Human Rights and Social Warts. The report misses very little that is erupting inside the US Society.
Notice how this coordinates with the reportage from China.
Both Russia and China are demonized by the US, and this is comeback that fits the bill owed to the sanctimonious US.
This is part of the INFOwar that Russia and China have finally joined in a big way.And it will get more effective as they go forward. They are working on messaging techniques to use the most sophisticated means.
After reading Finnish segment I’m speechless. The text could easily be from Brussels. What on earth has Russia to do with “human rights” in Finland???
Take care of your own businesses, and leave us alone. I can tell you for sure that if this “report” will be published in Finland, Russia is going to lose most of those rare friends she still has in Finland – and I don’t count socialists to this.
I was one of those who truly fought for Mother Russia here in Finland – during the dangerous times of Ukraine crisis … and payed a price for it. After reading that nonsense, I truly regret it. All in vain.
There will be no multipolar world, only a new and very probably even worse version of globalism, lead by China.
Finland quietly made statements about everyone else’s human rights. They criticized Hong Kong for example. they expressed such ‘great concern’ about Xinjian.
This report hits straight back at those that criticize ‘human rights’ in the context of the new ‘war’, without being properly based. Bear in mind this ‘human rights’ shouting has taken over from the ‘war on terror’ which is now all of a sudden old-fashioned and human rights are being put forward as the new policy. Just like ‘international law’ is being replaced by ‘rules-based international order’. These are issues of policy.
Bear in mind this ‘human rights’ thing is a new thing to baselessly criticise others, while one’s own book is not crystal clean. And nobody’s book is crystal clean.
I can also fight their report. Where is South Africa, where the white population is being deprived of human rights by legislation even. There is not one African country there.
Take a look at Larchmonter’s response. He is exactly right.
You don’t get the point. Of course those in Finland who oppose globalism – and I assume that most here in Saker also oppose – didn’t accept those empty statements. Everybody understood that statements were made because our paid politicians must please Brussels. And now Russia is making similar – and very twisted – statements about the issue. Is it so that now Russia should please Brussels? Because of the pipeline?
In Finland have been two anti-globalist camps: those who didn’t want to understand that the source of the globalism was the West, and those (minority) – like me – who saw it as an entirely western project. Of course our hope was that Russia, as a spearhead of emerging multipolar world stand strong. Because we felt that multipolar world could bring the true sovereignty also for us. But now it looks more and more that this is not the case.
BTW, someone who seemed to be well-informed about the things in Afghanistan mentioned in comment section of Escobars article something about Taliban and IMF! I’ve no idea about the credibility of his comment, but if Taliban is going to take loans from IMF – then they can kiss goodbye to their victory.
Doesnt look as if the Taliban will need to go to the IMF for money.
Now that the U.S. is gone and stability can return to the region, investing in the country will be made easier (mostly locally anyway) and China or Russia or anyone wanting to do business will provide the so called loans (or money) you are referring to.
I read the section on my own country,Ireland, and it is accurate.
Whoever compiled it has clearly read the “Bunreacht Eireann” the Irish Constitution.
I read the section on Finland and it addresses the same “Human rights” issues as dealt with by the Finnish state in the same manner that it dealt with Ireland
Without you having mentioned what it was about the Finland section that disagreed with you It is hard to understand what has pissed you off about these reports on your country.
Clearly the Russian Ministry for foreign affairs has a degree of impartiality here and has been straightforward in its assessments.
It is also clear that the “Human Rights” filter is not flattering when applied to any State and there are reasons for that.
Simply put “Human Rights”becomes a very subjective matter when one gets into examining what exactly these rights are or might be.
Subjectivity in this context is dangerous and may very well be the reason such “Human Rights” are promoted by so many NGO’s.
Subjectivity is best applied to personal, internal,spiritual matters, and Objectivity is best applied to external matters such as “Human Rights’
In my humble opinion This Human Rights nonsense has been shown up for what it is by the simple act of a mirror being put in front of the mentioned countries records on these matters and the complex legislations that are required to accommodate such.
Hyvää päivää, Prospeller.
The concerns you have vis a vis Russia and the globalists, is one that we in Iran fully understand. Russia is torn, on the one hand by their desire for sovereignty, and on the other by the numerous Jewish billionaires that operate there.
I don’t know how to put this more simply: a country that has so many Jewish billionaires, can never be free from the influence of the globalists. (Who are the globalists, if not these billionaire tribal ‘vagabonds’ that belong to no country?)
Having lived in your land for a while, I cannot imagine a more benign and human-rights-friendly place on Earth. For what it’s worth, I would have been upset too, if a country like Russia, which, for one, isn’t really a bastion of human rights itself, and second, is made to look like the champion of anti-globalism and sovereignty, makes inappropriate remarks about human rights in my native land.
It is far too reminiscent of the US and all of their human rights nonsense.
Thank you very much for your kind and truthful words.
@Anonymous
You have to remember that it was the mess in the 90’s that allowed the globalists to gain a foothold in Russia. It takes time and patience to drive them out.
I also note that there is no mention of the Zionist Orc-Entity occupying Palestine.
Antoinetta III
I’m pretty sure that this is just ammo to use as self defense, a pretty good move actually. I wouldn’t take what it says to heart, the only meaning this could ever possibly have is to highlight the hypocrisy of the usual accusations that the aforementioned countries throw at Russia
A strange selection of countries…they don’t seem to belong to any particular group. It’s a mix of EU, NATO, five eyes, some Western “neutral” countries, and
Ukraine which is none of the above.
It’s not exclusively NATO because Turkey is not on the list…
The equivalent US series of reports covers virtually every country, however in “friendly” countries it typically includes a couple minor anecdotal incidents and such statements as:
The law prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention and provides for the right of any person to challenge the lawfulness of his or her arrest or detention in court. The government routinely observed these requirements.
Funny that it purports the idea that in Moldova people speak Moldavian language, not Romanian…
But skipping through it seems a very thorough job, I am impressed. Fighting the west with their own weapons. Kudos!
Kouros, in the case of the Finland they don’t fight the West with Wests weapons. Instead, Russia positions herself on the same page than the globalist West. Totally different thing.
And IMHO extremely stupid. Russia would win easily hearts and minds of Finns simply opposing the destructive influence of globalism in Finland.
But using globalist propaganda buzzwords like “human rights” etc. gives a totally different picture of their intentions.
In the report there are only thinly veiled accusations about police mishandling of green anarchists – I remember the case well; absolutely a nothing burger – and on the other side report supports police violence against anti-vaxxers. Not something that’s Russias business.
My wife and my daughter participated in anti-vax demonstrations, so don’t come to tell me that what police did, was appropriate. Nothing really bad happened there, but the behaviour of the Finnish police was unseen here, and was shocking to those who participated in completely peaceful protests.
Since I mentioned Taliban in my previous comment, look at this:
https://www.rt.com/russia/532308-kadyrov-us-control-taliban/
The report on Finland is really not bad, since the benchmark is, due to a normative approach, perfection. But the slight to Moldova is deep and insidious albeit strategic-culture recently had an infographic with the hotspots for reunification in Europe. There were about three, one being Romania and Republic of Moldavia…
Human Rights is like Freedom, Democracy, and the Rule of Law: Propaganda weapons that the West deploys to attack enemy nations and ultimately justify its conquest of the world.
In many ways, the Western Civilizing Mission never ended.
It only mutated into a more “Liberal Democratic” strain with the ideology of human rights.
It’s also amusing how Western nations inevitably throw a hissy fit and lash out when human rights concerns are applied to their own morally superior democracies.
To borrow Saker’s terminology about Zone A and Zone B, Zone A and its citizens believe they have a God-given right to sit in judgement of Zone B–but never to be on the receiving end of judgement BY those “savages” in Zone B.
To Anonymous
“It’s also amusing how Western nations inevitably throw a hissy fit and lash out when human rights concerns are applied to their own morally superior democracies” – the last three words should have been put in commas and double question mark! : )
The US section is an embarrassment. Rather than addressing the whipped up Woke hatred of men, Christians, white people, etc.; social media censorship and government/corporate attacks on free speech; no fly lists for dissidents; cancel culture; witch hunt of “insurrectionists” and “white nationalists,” the MFA repeats all the usual stuff about racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia blah blah blah. (Only LGBTQLMNOP is missing.) Cited authorities? ADL for crying out loud!
It might well have been written by American bureaucrats. I guess Russian MFA bureaucrats aren’t much different than their State Department counterparts.
Don’t you yanks have to put dick pics on your houses and apartments in order not to be attacked by special interest groups?
Jim, exactly, I totally agree with you.
What comes to LGBTQLMNOP madness, it’s missing only because Kremlin doesn’t want to anger (still) influential Russian Orthodox Church.
But I would say that also that is going to change in the future.
Putin seems to have a better sense of things than his bureaucracy. No surprise there.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/16/putin-chides-us-jailing-capitol-rioters-killing-as/
Interesting…. The Human Rights Report does not include Israel, one of the most egregious human rights abusers in the world. I wonder why the Russian commission skipped over Zionist-Israel?
Israel has not introduced sanctions against Russia based on “human rights violations “.
All the countries on the list have sanctioned Russia in some way or another for “human rights abuses”. This is Russia’s FU response.
Diplomacy is reciprocity.
Exactly! This report is an extension to the “Unfriendly States” list. This list compiled by Russia on Human rights seems to offend; unfortunately sometimes the truth hurts.
Unfortunately the list is far from the truth.
Great hit peace. The dutch – netherlands part is pretty spot on.
Seeing the discussion below here, i guess we’ll should move to Helsinki then.
(Sigh)
Once again, Palestine did not make the list. There are no human rights issues that Muslim and Christian Gentiles face because they are poltergeists and ghosts don’t have rights; just ask the Zionists.
Apparently Palestinians are the first indigenous people in the world to achieve human stealth capability. You can’t see them or hear their cries for justice because they are invisible phantoms and disembodied spirits and so are their newly born children, who will be raised in bondage to serve Mammon.
@Poke the Truth. Sigh no more, the people of the Holy Land have not been forgotten. Here is Mullah Abdul Baradar speaking as the new ruler in Kabul:
“To the people of this world, especially the Palestinians, we hope that our victory over the superpowers of mankind will inspire you, as our faith in Allah has been confirmed for all to see. How can you deny Allah and his will, when he has delivered such a great victory to the believers?”
“If you don’t like how I handled Afghanistan, then You Ain’t Black!” – Joe Biden
Biden: “We spent over a TRILLION dollars!” “We paid their salaries.”
American: Can you at least raise the minimum wage here?
Biden: JESUS CHRIST! You and your ponies!!
There is only one reason for all this moaning and groaning in response to this article- the shoe is on the other foot!
What do you mean by that?
How easily they have pitted us against each other.
What a shame.
When the West jabs at Russia, and the idiots cheer, I sigh for humanity.
When Russia jabs at the West, and the idiots cheer even louder, I sigh even deeper for humanity.
Have we forgotten that the Russians and the Anglos were partners for something like two centuries?
Cheer your favorite side, ye enlightened geniuses. Cheer while you knock eachother’s teeth out, for nothing.
Russia number 1!!!
No. Anglostan number 1!!!
And round and round it goes.
“Cheer while you knock each other’s teeth out, for nothing.”
Well said, it certainly looks like this battle for the “truth” has been worthless.
Be that as it may, there is one very unlikely ‘brown’ country still battling for the truth. The same country that can’t go a single day without bringing up Palestine. The country which has sacrificed itself, and continues to sacrifice itself on a daily basis, for Syria and Lebanon, for Iraq, for Yemen, for Palestine, and for all the other oppressed people of the world, even as far away as Venezuela.
I am of course referring to Iran, the number one enemy of all “human rights” and “freedom” and “democracy”, sanctioned by the Anglos, sanctioned by the Russians, and sanctioned by the Chinese.
If the Anglos, the Russians, and the Chinese can’t agree on anything, they can still agree that Iran is an enemy of the world order, and they can all agree that Iran must be cut off from doing fair trade, and even from doing simple financial transactions, with the rest of the world. And they all agree that Iran must not receive any weapons, even defensive weapons, when it needs them.
They continue to remind Iranians of their ironclad alliance against us, by recreating historic photographs, symbolic of Iran’s neck under the collective Anglo-Russian knee.
They tell us: just stop talking about Palestine, stop saying death to Israel, and we will make you rich like the Saudis, the Emiratis, the Kuwaitis, the Bahrainis, et al. (Where are they on the list of human rights violators? Are the Yemenis not human?)
If I know anything at all, it is that Israel is doomed, no matter how much the Anglos, the Russians, and the Chinese support them and their human rights violations, while they keep trying to strangle us, we will never stop supporting Palestine, which is the cause of humanity vs inhumanity. (Are the Israelis human? How can they treat other humans like this, then?)
You must look to your self for salvation, Suomalainen. Do not look to Russia and China for hope, or for truth. When I look at Russia and China, all I see is two countries dilligently working for their own self-interest, at any cost.
As someone else so poignantly pointed out, where is Israel’s name on this supposed list of human rights violators? Is there a country on Earth where human rights are violated more than Israel?
Self-interest for Russia and China means: Israel can never be on any list, unless it’s a list of the super-duper bestest people in the world, in which case, the Israelis must always be at the top.
Any list of human rights violators, without Israel’s name on it, is just toilet paper.
”the Russians and the Anglos were partners for something like two centuries”
Huh? Which century? What are you talking about? There has never been a more ruthless enemy to Russia, no matter which shape, be it imperial, soviet or democratic, than the Anglo-Americans.
https://www.stalkerzone.org/why-england-was-always-the-worst-enemy-of-russia/
I guess it was in another universe where Russia and Britain invaded and occupied Iran together as allies, in WW1 and WW2.
Lets see now, would have been the 19th on that, they sold us Alaska, can you imagine Russia today reaching down to Fairbanks, Russians shaking hands with the Canadians and the northwest statesmen, what would todays Washington D.C. think about that?
Which “two centuries” would that be???They were allied with the Anglos during the WWI & II 1914 – 1918 and 1939 – 1945. All of 10 years. Before that there was the Great Game…?
Russia and Britain were allies against Napoleon. I remember how one Finnish geopolitical expert wrote about how that affected Finland.
Because Brits feared growing German influence in North, they saw that from their point of a view it was better that Finland belong to imperial Russia – they supported the idea, and Finland became part of the Imperial Russia
I don’t know how much there’s truth in that claim, but it’s plausible.
In any case, in those days Russian rule was good for us Finns. When I was a small boy, my old Karelian grandmother told me how old folks used to speak about the “times of the tzars”, and how good those times were.
Pity there’s no tzar anymore in Russia.
Russia and Britain were at war during the Napoleonic conflicts:
1807 – 1812 Anglo- Russian War
Wasn’t it Sweden that lost the Finnish war?
Yeah, it was really complicated situation – – as always in geopolitics. But I believe that it’s possible that there were a secret treaty between Russia and England before Finland became part of Imperial Russia. Maybe a bit similar than during the WW2? History always seems to repeat itself.
And yes, Sweden lost that war you are referring to.
But if true history of Europe interests you – in which Napoleon played a very remarkable role – read this:
https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/directives/humanity-lodge
In a nutshell: bloody path from monarchy to republic and from republic to democracy. And now we are trapped and confused in this worsening global nightmare.
Russian and Britain were allies in the early 19th century, when a serious threat to Europe erupted in the form of Napoleon.
Afterwards, they had a period of rivalry. Then again, when another threat to Europe appeared in the early 20th century, they didn’t hesitate to partner up again.
And yet again, faced with Nazi Germany, they chose each other for the third time.
Three major crises in two centuries, and all three times, Russia and Britain were allies.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the word ally, because it implies a wartime partnership. I should have said ‘partners’.
Even today, when we are told that Britain and Russia are ‘enemies’, the trade volume between the two is over 20 billion dollars a year.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1002015/russia-leading-export-partners/
Serbian girl, you must forgive me for my bias. I come from Iran, and when we are enemies with someone, we don’t do a single cent of business with them. Iranian trade volume with the US and Israel is null.
I can’t imagine calling the US an enemy, and then doing 20 billion dollars of trade with them.
We kill our enemies, we don’t do trade with them.
So, if the rivalry between Britain and Russia, in the periods when they weren’t officially allied, was anything like their ‘rivalry’ today, then I stand by what I said, they have been partners for two centuries.
@Anonymous
//Even today, when we are told that Britain and Russia are ‘enemies’, the trade volume between the two is over 20 billion dollars a year.//
According to your logic, Russia should refrain from trading with any country that goes against her in the int’l arena. If they do it, they would effectively lose most of their foreign revenue because the EU is a major client for Russian energy supplies. Besides, everyone knows that China is the #1 enemy of the US. But does that stop them from trading with each other?
The examples you present for the Russian-british alliance are ones where Russia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty were threatened. They had the right to ally with the lesser enemy at the time to remove the more serious and immidiate threat.
Yours is pretty flawed logic.
I wonder why Japan has been omitted from the list. Haven’t the Japanese made allegations against Russia on human rights issues?
Btw,
I have a question that doesn’t relate to this post. Can someone please suggest to me some good sources (books) on the WW2, Eastern Theatre, and the Red Army during the war? Thanks in advance
@Prospeller on August 18, 2021 · at 2:42 am EST/EDT
“Unfortunately the list is far from the truth.”
OK, you got me curious and I went to read the section on Finland and I think you need to compare it with some others, because I think your protesting about that report is perhaps overblown.
It says clearly: Traditionally, the work of the Finnish authorities to ensure rights and freedoms is satisfactory. At the same time, a number of recent precedents have shown that unresolved problems remain in the field of human rights observance in Finland.
Can you tell me which of the incidents outlined there did not happen?
Did the police not overreact at the Green gathering? Did they not spray people sitting peacefully on the ground? Did the report not explain both sides?
Is there no growth of far right and far left movements? Is there not a rise in extremist attitudes?
Are there not Nazi insignia visible at some of these gatherings?
Is the Russian language not being suppressed?
Is the indigenous identity not being fragmented? Just like in Canada through schools?
It is generally a mild report showing some areas of concern. So, I do not understand your protesting against it. Go and read some others.
amarynth, your comment is so out of reality that it’s difficult to respond to it. The way we see the world seems to be fundamentally different.
“Is there no growth of far right and far left movements? Is there not a rise in extremist attitudes?”
No. Even though globalists try to do everything for it, by flooding our country with people who doesn’t belong here. Don’t you get the idea of the multipolar world?
“Are there not Nazi insignia visible at some of these gatherings?”
Yes, possibly in some gatherings, but I have lived more than 60 years here and I honestly haven’t never seen Nazi insignia in public here.
About fragmented indigenous identity: in Finland majority of population is indigenous. People like me, we are Finns. And the answer to your question is yes. Our identity is fragmented. Remember: “democracy means the rule of minority.” Unfortunately Finland was turned from Republic into a Democracy.
Finally, I didn’t say that incidents you are referring to didn’t happen. My point was that the way these incidents are presented in the report is false. If you see these green hate-mongers and anarchists as a victims of a police violence, then fine – but my guess is that most of the Finns saw that in a different light.
We’re talking hard politics here. There are some issues. The Russians see the Finland commentary on something like their prohibition of the Jehova’s Witnesses in Russia in a different light. Finland comments on others, so, this is now time to comment on them. Sanctions? well, you can go and see that Finland supported sanctions.
The issue here is practicing what you preach, and this is exactly what Russia is trying to accomplish – to make others take responsibility for their words within this new ‘human rights war’. They’re giving you a sense of how things are viewed from the outside. And I stay with what I said .. compared to others the Finland report was very mild.
Anyway, I just got intrigued about your kickback against that report and I see nothing much wrong with it.
From the Canada section: “Over the recent 12 years, about a third (28 percent) of the black population in Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia have been weekly subjected to police interrogations and unjustified detention without valid reasons (this rate is about 4 percent among whites.)”
Well, everyone should be very proud with the step forward Nova Scotia made yesterday by firmly ousting any faux-liberal so-called “progressives” (choke) from office, and replacing them with a solid majority Conservative one. Problem solved – which I’m certain will be reflected in the official statistics over the course of the Conservative-majority government.
It took me a while to get to the Canada section due to the need to scroll past pages and pages and pages of info on Austria. Whew! They need to get their act together.
When we first arrived in Nova Scotia, early 70’s, from bigoted sectarian Ireland…..’twas a breath of fresh…….horseshit, where the hell did we land.
Pictou, Nova Scotia, law. on the books. No Black people allowed in town after 6pm. That was the law.
New Glasgow, no black people allowed to live in town, they lived in a place locally called……’n…hill’. Vale Road for any Scotians passing through. I was one of the few whites who could go there and not worry. My Da worked with a few of the fellas that lived there, we’d visit, I’d hang and play with their kids….
As a kid, in a new and ‘free’ (lmao) country, (at least in Ireland we all looked alike, one could blend in, kinda) I had my first encounter with real racism.
Living and working in western Canada I see racism daily…..a destroyed First Nation culture, may never heal.
The blacks in NS still live mostly on the Dartmouth side, back in the day blacks were discouraged from living in Halifax. Race riots still occur there………in Halifax/Dartmouth…….welcome to Canada.
Cheers, M
As always, lukewarm , not hot, not cold. Impotent and apologetic! Typically Russian! As the saying goes, the tree is known by its fruits, not by its leaves. Russia is irrelevant except for the possession of nuclear weapons but its politicians and oligarchs like to pretend that they are equal to and well respected by the “partners”, while there is nothing further from the truth. From the drowning (by them) of the USSR until today they never stopped copying almost everything western as if totally unable to come up with something powerful and original of their own and that’s quite an insult to the great nation.
Russian people still show patience hoping that one day and somehow they will be able to shake themselves free of the confused minds and that the patriots uninfected by the virus of communism will eventually prevail.
One of the human rights is the right to work. Seen this way, there are 8 million unemployed in the US and 15 million unemployed in the European Union whose human rights are not respected.
A very good point.
No Israel. No surprise.