washingtonpost.com — Russia has suspended the activities of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the International Republican Institute and more than 90 other foreign NGOs on grounds they failed to meet the registration requirements of a controversial new law designed to bring foreign activists here under much closer government scrutiny.
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wackaOct 20, 2006
I guess Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Republican Institute are the most important 3 foreign NGOs in Russia to be suspended. Since those were listed at the front of the article. It seems a bigger loss to me for Russia to lose international adoption agencies, which were mentioned farther down, below were most people have probably read.
nixolayOct 20, 2006
Come on guys.This is definitely not a good thing, that is going in our country, but you should not start yelling out stereotypes, like KGB, Soviet Empire. Sounds way too stupid, like you do not watch nothing but Fox News. I think it's just business. Money is the thing that matters. That's all.Looks like the whole world is going down to some very unpleasant state (Russian "democracy", USA "democracy", whole world "democracy"). Someone stop this planet. I'm getting off here.
volatilewhimsyOct 20, 2006
Meh I'm ok with Russia being what it wants to be... As long as they aren't the school yard bully.. Hey my fav gun, markorv comes from there..."Putin is doing here is putting in place just a minimal amount of control over the activities of foreign institutions that have set up shop in Russia. One would believe a sovereign country is fully entitled to do that -- to control foreign activities on its soil, wouldn't you say?"I will not disagree at all with this statement. What I disagree with is the length he is going to get an iron grip on his country.. Journalists have been murdered and so forth.. Previously ppl from his own cabinet resigned because of what he was doing to the country.. He is simply a short mean bully.
dp2006Oct 20, 2006
The Soviet Union would be a pretty good deal compared to today's Yeltsin-devastated Russia. Most people wouldn't mind a return to the good old days at all, trust me.The Soviet Union looked scary only on the outside, on the inside it was a nice, cozy and orderly place -- I grew up in it. The only diss was shortage of consumer trinkets -- that's why people didn't defend the old system when a bunch of ragtag "democrats" with Yeltsin as the ringleader started to rock the boat, promising everyone Western levels of creature comforts within a year or two after transition to "democracy".
trovoltexOct 20, 2006
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volatilewhimsyOct 20, 2006
tr you are either not grasping at what I am saying or you are just ignoring it.. Why do you think we have sanctions with cuba... Cause your country where puting nukes there... The deal with Enron? what the hell are you talking about? These men stole from teh people.. A concept I understand from what you are saying is ok.... Well here we don't think it is ok and they were prosecuted..... They aren't kept in a cage during trial...Meh I am not a terroist supporter and I agree that Russia has a severe problem with them there.. It just amazes me that you jerks like to kick America around when you are 10 times worse... Oh and by the way can you tell them to hurry up and release part two of Night Watch in the U.S.?
trovoltexOct 20, 2006
>It just amazes me that you jerks like to kick America around when you are 10 times worse... Again, it's not true. We don't kick America, you are kicking yourself by your actions. More, newspapers we read here and western news medias I look kicking our ass, but here, we don't have that antiUS nor antiWestern tone which almost all western media has agains Russia.Now we don't want to dominate the world, communists are over. We want to live in our country, free of your suppression and your moralities. We want stability in our country, we want justice, and we don't want Iraq-type democracy. We all upset of killings and terror we had last time, we are working on it and we will find all criminals involved in latest killings (I note, that's not that easy, just think about JFK). But please, take back your CIA-ruled NGGs, they aren't that funny.US has many sanctions, even some on Russia, a 100 years old sanction called something-Venik. We take our sanctions - just we broke all relations with a country which goverment is militaristic and very anti-russian.We are 10 times worse? Amazing! In what?
jake8689Oct 20, 2006
yeah 1950's Russia here we come