Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
by pavs on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:05AM
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The comparison was not between putin's Russia and Russia 50 years ago. It was between Russia and USA. Despite everything that is fucked up and wrong with US Government, I would hope (perhaps naively), its still better than Russia in terms of human rights at least?
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Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
by jacquesm on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:43AM
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> I would hope (perhaps naively), its still better than Russia in terms of human rights at least?
That depends on a lot of factors:
- are you homosexual
- ethnically caucasian
- A subscriber to Islam
- have a name that matches the name of someone on a no-fly list
- an 'enemy combatant' (ages 13 and up)
- an activist of sorts
Or anyone of a hundred other arbitrary criteria. Those could make the difference between a safe & secure life 'just' being harassed periodically by people in uniform or spending time in Gitmo or Siberia.
Re:Snowden granted 1-year asylum in Russia, leaves airport
by geoka9 on Thursday August 01, 2013 @12:18PM
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> ethnically caucasian
Actually, that matters in Russia a lot, too. Although, their meaning of the word is different (Russian Caucasians are people originated from around the Caucasian Mountains; that's where all the guerilla fighting is currently going on).