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2021-12-30 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

In Latest Blow To Russian Civil Society, Court Orders Closure Of Memorial Rights Center

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Posted by badanov 2021-12-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 sounds like the U.S. these days

Posted by Chris 2021-12-30 01:04|| 2021-12-30 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Very odd ... the original group had a Russian name: Памать, or [To] Remember, and its focus was 100% historical. IIRC the goal was to raise public awareness of, and rescue from the Soviet memory-hole, documented human rights abuses of the Soviet system.

How and when did this morph from an uncontroversial, purely historical, Russian-directed effort to something focused on contemporary partisan political activism under a transliterated English name ("Memorial")?

Was this something cooked up by that idiot McFaul and the other Soetoro morons?

How did they think Russians would react to a heavy-handed foreign-supported openly partisan political effort on Russian home soil?

Did they even bother to think of how they'd react if Russia and China began supporting election monitors in the US and trailing cops around our urban shitholes in order to document "human rights abuses"?

Perhaps I'm missing something or have this wrong, but this reeks of Obama-ist ham-handed human rights bullshit and interference in Russia.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-30 03:59|| 2021-12-30 03:59|| Front Page Top

#3 We did it FIRST!

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-30 10:53|| 2021-12-30 10:53|| Front Page Top

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