Guardian on Putin's speech

[FRISON Philippe]

Sadly enough, there is room for comments...

The mere assertion that putin "has stabilised, if not deepend Rsusian democracy" shuold be questioned.

The appointement of Ramzan Kadyrov as Chechnya's acting President whereas he should be judged in jailed for all the crimes he ordered and perpetrated himself in Tsentoroy is really a great achievement of Russian democracy...

The Trepashkin's and Khodorkovsky's (and other new dissidents') condamnation is also a great achievement of Russia's justice system....

The dedovshchina's system within the armed forces (with the cases of rank file military being tortured and loosing his genitals as a result is a testimony of the restoration of armed forces respectful of Russain citizens' dignity.

Putin is now preparing the democratic election of KGB general Ivanov or Putin' administration chief Medvedev (and ruining Kasparov's campaining efforts to stay as candidate), which will be a great achievement of democratic Russian elections (but certainly not by Western standards), .

Even to mean that Putin has restored law and order in Russia is a definite distortion of reality, see Anna Politkovskaya's murder and the so far "unccessful inquiry" in the case and the numerous economical murders committed in Russia as a whole and crimes committed without any prosecution in Chechnya and Northern Caucasus.

Putin has retored Russia's economical position in the world in the interested of oligarchs supporting him and his clique...
I am not quite sure common people in Ryazan or elsewhere in the province get much of this wealth...

Philippe Frison (Strasbourg, France)

-----Original Message-----
From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Valery Belyanin
Sent: jeudi 22 février 2007 16:30
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Guardian on Putin's speech

On 2/22/07, Elena Gapova <e.gapova at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2017816,00.html
> The west may yet come to regret its bullying of Russia
> The truth is that Putin, ... he has stabilised, if not deepened, 
> Russian democracy,

Great!
What I hear all the time from Russians that they already had democracy and they do not need it anymore. And that the democrats did not use their chances. etc. No comment.

-- 
Валерий Белянин / Valery Belyanin,
Email: russianforyou at gmail.com

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