LGBT Pride Parade in the Ukraine

mashable.com ^ | June 5, 2015

[marvel5]

I can think of a couple

Radical Feminism (see Pussy Riot incident. Putin said they “undermined moral foundations” of the nation, and “got what they asked for” (imprisonment)

Abortion - advertising banned, no operations after 12th week, two to seven day waiting period, bonuses offered to encourage births (one-time $13,000)

Multiculturalism and reverse discrimination - Google “Putin and” these terms (hint: he’s against)

Militant Secularism - Putin: “Policies are being pursued that place on the same level multi-child family and same sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. this is the path to degradation.” Google Putin and Religion” and “Putin and Russian Orthodox Church.”

Sovereign Debt - Putin has paid down the Russian state debt to 11% of GDP v. 106% for US.

Welfare spending - Putin: European countries have been “living beyond their means” and are now witnessing the rise of a “dependency mentality . . . [that] endangers not only the economy but the moral foundation of society.”

Flat tax - Russia has a flat tax of 13% v. US Marxist progressive taxation. (Russia also has lower corporate income tax)

Global Warming - Russia opposes global warming nonsense; US promotes it.

Russia is a democratic country with considerable freedom of expression, property and individual rights, and more freedom of religion than you will find in the US.

The truth, sadly, is that today Russia is the leader of the international Right and the US/EU lead the International Left - just the opposite of Cold War days.

[Krosan]

Ukrainian government didn’t really support it as the article said. Their position was that a right for this is guaranteed by the constitution, but they hope the homos would decide themselves not to have their march and the government is not going to go against the constitution to ban it.

[1rudeboy]

Codswallop. Heritage's Index of Economic Freedom has Russia ranked below China and Tajikistan.