Nightmares have been haunting Communists. Russia has been invaded by fat and rich foreigners chewing a cigar and rustling pocketfuls of bank notes. Their artificial smiles, false complaisance and unbecomingly good manners conceal their fierce hatred against Russia. They only make-believe they mind their business and their profits, but in reality the bourgeois tycoons seek to exterminate the Russian people. To reach their filthy objectives, the foreign capitalists buy land and export it to their already well-to-do homelands. What the avid magnates do with the Russian land overseas remains a mystery, for the nightmare pursues another direction. The land leaves the Russian territory for the West on dry cargo ships, freight trains and caravans of trailers. The soil crust of Russia grows thinner, the fertile layer has long gone, the whole land has been practically removed by the wicked bourgeois. Russia gradually turns into a great pit and then proceeds to become an abyss, which absorbs Communists and Agrarians, who are falling their long way towards the planet’s bowels screaming high and sweating cold. Full Story...
Authorities in this country behave like children. It would be even more noticeable if their representatives stamped their feet and cried loudly — just like some self-willed child who tosses his broken toy car away because he cannot fix it — while giving televised interviews on the necessity of extraordinary measures on such issues, which the whole world handles with cool efficiency. The fuss surrounding Russia's migration policy is a good example of that. It has become known that Russia's ministry of the interior may soon present a very simple solution to the problem of all those unwanted Meskhetian Turks, Afghans and others who cannot grasp why Russian dislike them so much. Full Story...
Kazakh oppositionists and human rights activists are coming to Moscow more and more frequently. The worsening of domestic political climate in their homeland, where 40% of the population are Russians, should be worrying for Russia, believes Petr Svoik, chairman of the Kazakh Democratic Party, Azamat. Russian lawyer Boris Reznik complains of an unprecedented occurrence in his practice, of how official Astana has forbidden him to defend one of the leaders of Kazakh opposition, Galymzhan Zhakiyanov, who has been placed under ‘house arrest’ … in a barrack on the premises of the Pavlodarsol salt works. Full Story...
The way Russia handles its migration problems makes it look like a man who is trying to start life afresh, suddenly becoming forgetful of his past commitments and, along with them, of victims of his own misdeeds. This worrying situation has become the reason for convening an All-Russian Extraordinary Congress in Support of Mirgrants, which opened in Moscow on June 20. Full Story...
Publicity for North Koreans who are fleeing their country and seeking asylum in embassies in China is putting them in danger, a senior UN refugee official has warned.
“Publicity is not in the interest of the North Koreans. It's not productive either,” said Anne Willem Bijleveld, communications director for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in an interview with the Korea Herald newspaper published Monday. Full Story...
The Constitutional dream of three independent branches of power is being shattered by the force of real politics in Russia. Speaking of independence, granted to Court or Parliament, one should employ no other but the ironic style. Still, the irony is twice as bitter as it used to be – in view of the recent events, even the most buoyant Russians have cut out laughing. Full Story...
Human rights activists in Russia and Ukraine are continuing to make use of out-dated terminology. To this day they refer to the “Helsinki movement” and “civil society”. The use of terms which had positive associations in the Soviet era demonstrates that the human rights movement has not modernized its principles or aims. Intellectual inertia and the political situation do not allow them to reconstruct the ideology of human rights. Full Story...
We have a dead body. We have a murderer pled guilty. We have ample evidence to prove the murder and the court featuring prosecutor, lawyers and judges. But the murder itself seems to have never been registered! Such is the view of the public prosecutor, who has revoked charges on colonel Budanov today. Murder of an 18-year old girl has come to be defined as abuse of power. This very charge is still up against the prisoner at the bar. Full Story...
”Red and Anarchist skinheads”, “Skinheads against Racial Predjudice”. The monikers seek to distinguish: skinheads, not Nazis. Moreover, the movement’s following is quite discontent with the equals sign the mass conscience from force of habit puts between the two social formations. Full Story...
Hardly every other person can state in pride: “We’re stuck in the eternity in the same fashion as bullets are stuck in the target!”. These lines were crafted by Yury Davydov, who also managed to create the public youth organization “PADPHT” (PORTOS), which name stands for “Poetic Association for Development of Popular Happiness Theory”. The happy author presently reposes in the pre-trial holding facilities in the fortunate company of his PORTOS mates Evgeny Privalov, Irina Derguzova and Tatyana Lomakina. Full Story...