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Double standard

Evgeny — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:27:35 +0000

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 to kill thousands of innocent people. It is normal for them! This is our knowledge for all times, but time to time we get some pieces of information and different materials (documents, video and audio), which confirm that we have always been right.

The last such confirmation I saw was this:

There I can see only two important things (except murder of the journalists):

- some people were killed (murdered) in the way which can not be named as “proportional use of force” (they were killed from the distance by using a heavy machine gun or cannon);

- some absolutely innocent people who didn’t even have any weapons at all and just wanted to help wounded people were MURDERED (not killed).

As a supporter of a civil society all over the world and as a supporter of an open access to information I would like to share with you this link were the information on this issue is opened (can be obtain).

We don’t need cars with flashers!

Evgeny — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:21:29 +0000

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 friends in commercial structures use this kind of equipment. It allows them to break traffic rules. For instance they may drive a wrong side of a road when a right side is blocked by a traffic jam).

This movement was launched last week when one citizen had blocked a car at a wrong side of the road with a President adviser with in it. And now we have a lot of discussions on this topic on Russian branch of the Internet. New videos of blocked cars with flashers appear almost every day. Of course, it doesn’t concern police, fire and ambulance cars.

You can see this first action here:

Should The West be scared of Russia?

Evgeny — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:20:06 +0000

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 Russian attitude towards them. I strongly recommend it to those who wants to understand Russia.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Enjoy the film!

Lawyer’s Day!

Evgeny — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:00:43 +0000

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 a president decree. It was signed as far back as Vladimir Putin and was published in the beginning of 2008. But to my shame, I still don’t know why Lawyer’s Day was established certainly in the third of December.

And this year we celebrate this holiday for the second time.

Taking an opportunity I’d like to congratulate heartily all my colleges!

Judge-prostitute

Evgeny — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:06:30 +0000

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 to break up this action it maybe would be better, because it would be very symbolic and would show that some judges can be criminals.

Now I don’t have video of this action. If I find it, I’ll try to put this video somewhere in the Rublawg.com

Source: chelovekizakon.ru