Of course I'm not familiar
Of course I'm not familiar
She was mentioned thousand times on censored Russian TV.
The fact that she was anti-governmental journalist makes her right obviously.
And the fact that she was protecting rights of Chechens and strangely missed thousands of killed and expelled Russians created very good reputation for her in Russia.
Did she write, about the situation with military salaries before Putin's rule and how it changed for the last 10 years? I'm surprised that you chose to quote the thing which has improved during Putin's time, whereas there were things which worsened.Well, apparently you ARE not familiar who Politkovskaja was!
In her book "Putins Russia" she wrote much more about etchnic Russians than Chechens. For example about how the Admiral of the Pacific fleet and commander of the whole of Russias eastern most militaryforces earned less than 5000 rubels a month at the beginning of this decade, during Putins rule. 6000 rubels being the montly wage of a local bussdriver. Captains of atomic submarines earning even less and sometimes not getting payed for six months. One particular captain survived on one third of his dayly food rations intended for him, because he gave the rrest to his wife and daughter.
Ok, may be.Chechens are Russians by citizenship and not Russians by ethnicity. In English it is the same word. I meant ethnicity, because there was an ethnic conflict in Chechnya and as a result, Russian population of Chechnya was pretty much nullified. Did Politkovskaya write about this in her book?
Pokurcz, you should understand that during Soviet rule we learned not to believe everyone who wrote a book or showed up on TV.
Yes she did, write of the turmoil before Putin. But that it was because of a strive to change that failed, whilst Putin has turned the clock back to Soviet times with a nice adition of high level crime.Did she write, about the situation with military salaries before Putin's rule and how it changed for the last 10 years? I'm surprised that you chose to quote the thing which has improved during Putin's time, whereas there were things which worsened.
And 6000 rubles per month for bus driver?
You mean, he returned life expectancy back to the Soviet times, increasing it by 10 years?
Obviously, she was not killed because of she "dared to try to wake you up from the delusion" and wrote a book: there are lots of people in Russia who are disagree with government and tell about it on radio, TV, Internet, write books etc. There are several theories, for example, her last investigation was about tortures used by Chechenian government. She was journalist who make dangerous investigation, so she had numerous enemies.Well that is the thing right there, you are back in Soviet rule and worse, and someone dared to try to wake you up from the delusion and got killed because of it.
Could you tell me what your position is with regard to latest Iraqi War as given by most of Western media (WMDs etc).Well that is the thing right there, you are back in Soviet rule and worse, and someone dared to try to wake you up from the delusion and got killed because of it.
From what I can read in this post I could say that you need to suffer a little to understand life more and not give such arrogant advices.
Of course you don't, you've already done that - right?
I meant your comment describing the trends that red_elk has outligned as "okay" and then suggesting to emigrate (presumably to avoid those trends). It sounded very mean and no person that has truly suffered in life would post what you did.
Its certainly not the impression I got from that post. I'm sure you can reformulate that
It can be a bit frustrating, but if China got on par with the "Western world" there won't be much resources to go on. We consume too much nowadays anyway. A more efficient and certainly less consumerist approach should work a lot better, both in China and other countries too.
