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:

Russian law » civil society

Double standard

We don’t need cars with flashers!