Archive for 'Society' Category
Double standard
The Western countries (the USA and the European Union) every time accuse Russia of a disproportional use of force in the conflicts in Chechnya and Georgia. But here in Russia we have always known that they use double standard: they can at the same time to accuse Russia of aggression, to bomb independent countries and [...]
We don’t need cars with flashers!
Maybe we are witnesses of the birth of a civil society in Russia when people don’t want to be ruled any more without a paying any attention to their wishes and needs. One of the last examples is a new social movement against cars with flashers (Here in Russia a lot of officials and their [...]
Should The West be scared of Russia?
Today I met a very interesting BBC documentary on YouTube. The most interesting thing of this film is that it contains not only the USA and other Western country’s point of view, but the Russian point of view as well. This film is about the main events of the last two decades and about the [...]
Lawyer’s Day!
Today in Russia we have Lawyer’s Day. Although it is a holiday for lawyers, we have to work today. But in any case I’m sure the most of Russian lawyers will find their own way to celebrate this event after the workday. For information: Lawyer’s Day was established as holiday almost two years ago by [...]
Judge-prostitute
A very interesting anticorruption action took place in Sankt-Petersburg last week. During this action about 10 activists were walking along the streets dressed like prostitutes with tablets which read “I’m judge-prostitute”. Before the beginning of the action organizers said that they hoped police would not break up their performance, but in case of an attempt [...]