I had much better hopes from Mr. Putin on his second tenure. But seems that things are not going in right direction. I thought, he would work hard to be better president who would like to leave legacy..legacy of someone who united and took out Russia from chaos and anarchy and constructed Russia.. not only that, the person, who left really clean and democratic Russia.
These type of laws which inhibit basic freedom for common man is not right direction.. what ever justification you give.. if you want real progress, you have to open up country and give real freedom of expression and choice to your citizens. Law of Stick is not going to sustain for long. May be Putin if lucky could survive as a leader during his life time though I have low hopes if things continue like this.. Definitely it is going to kill his legacy like legacy of Stalin and other leaders was dead very soon after their demise.
Russia is such a beautiful country and has amazing potential.. amazingly lovely people.. these kind of things are simply killing Russia and taking it back to stone age.. I hope these so called God Fathers of Russia come back to senses before it is too late or it becomes point of no return..
Russia enacts new rules for Internet, nonprofit groups
By Ellen Barry
New York Times
MOSCOW — The upper house of the Russian Parliament overwhelmingly approved draft laws Wednesday that will give the government greater power over the Internet and nonprofit organizations. The measures, the latest in a series being rushed through as President Vladimir Putin begins a six-year term, will become law when he signs them, strengthening his hand against an increasingly assertive opposition.
The bills approved Wednesday empower the government to block any website it deems dangerous to children and require nonprofit groups that receive any money from outside Russia to describe themselves as “foreign agents” if they are deemed by the government to be engaged in political activities. “We understand that events have begun to take place at a faster rate, that the degree of tension in society is growing,” Aleksandr Petrov, a lawmaker from the ruling United Russia party, said in a meeting Tuesday with the leaders of nonprofit groups, held by the American Chamber of Commerce.
“We have one goal — to try, with the help of a number of laws, to create a certain stability, to provide for the integrity of the Russian Federation,” he said. “Yes, there should be political activity, but it should not be allowed to rock the boat which is called Russia.”
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, condemned the new laws in a statement Wednesday, saying they “will have a detrimental effect on human rights in the country.” The past two months, Pillay said, have brought “a worrying shift in the legislative environment governing the enjoyment of the freedoms of assembly, association, speech and information in the Russian Federation.”
These type of laws which inhibit basic freedom for common man is not right direction.. what ever justification you give.. if you want real progress, you have to open up country and give real freedom of expression and choice to your citizens. Law of Stick is not going to sustain for long. May be Putin if lucky could survive as a leader during his life time though I have low hopes if things continue like this.. Definitely it is going to kill his legacy like legacy of Stalin and other leaders was dead very soon after their demise.
Russia is such a beautiful country and has amazing potential.. amazingly lovely people.. these kind of things are simply killing Russia and taking it back to stone age.. I hope these so called God Fathers of Russia come back to senses before it is too late or it becomes point of no return..
Russia enacts new rules for Internet, nonprofit groups
By Ellen Barry
New York Times
MOSCOW — The upper house of the Russian Parliament overwhelmingly approved draft laws Wednesday that will give the government greater power over the Internet and nonprofit organizations. The measures, the latest in a series being rushed through as President Vladimir Putin begins a six-year term, will become law when he signs them, strengthening his hand against an increasingly assertive opposition.
The bills approved Wednesday empower the government to block any website it deems dangerous to children and require nonprofit groups that receive any money from outside Russia to describe themselves as “foreign agents” if they are deemed by the government to be engaged in political activities. “We understand that events have begun to take place at a faster rate, that the degree of tension in society is growing,” Aleksandr Petrov, a lawmaker from the ruling United Russia party, said in a meeting Tuesday with the leaders of nonprofit groups, held by the American Chamber of Commerce.
“We have one goal — to try, with the help of a number of laws, to create a certain stability, to provide for the integrity of the Russian Federation,” he said. “Yes, there should be political activity, but it should not be allowed to rock the boat which is called Russia.”
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, condemned the new laws in a statement Wednesday, saying they “will have a detrimental effect on human rights in the country.” The past two months, Pillay said, have brought “a worrying shift in the legislative environment governing the enjoyment of the freedoms of assembly, association, speech and information in the Russian Federation.”
