Putin not "flexible" in that way
Posted on 03/30/2013 9:44:12 AM PDT by marshmallow
The Russian president has opposed the adoption of Russian orphans by LGBT foreign couples, and has instructed the government and the Supreme Court to prepare changes to existing law before July 1.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order will most likely be fulfilled by the Ministry of Education and Science, which is currently dealing with issues concerning orphans and adoptions, Izvestia daily reported.
The ministry has not yet commented on the news, saying that Putin’s instructions had not yet reached their office.
Tensions over the issue arose in mid-February, after the French National Assembly voted to legalize adoptions by same-sex couples. At the time, the Russian plenipotentiary for children’s rights Pavel Astakhov said he would do everything to ensure that Russian orphans are only adopted by heterosexual families.
In mid-February, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that it planned to verify the possible “psychological damage” inflicted on Russian orphan Yegor Shabatalov, who was adopted by a US woman who lived in a same-sex marriage with another US citizen, but concealed her relationship from Russian authorities when she filed the adoption request. Two years after adopting the Russian boy, the couple split and started a legal dispute over parental rights.
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You said it. I hope after looking at our nation and what its government and population are doing, many other countries block adoptions by US parents, not just homosexual ones. Because even if the kid is raised by a heterosexual couple, he’s still growing up in a society where the gay mafia will force him to shower with transexuals, and write essays on the benefits of anal sex.
Putin and Russia are at least demonstrating sanity and genuinely protecting kids! Who can blame him, keeping children away from the cesspool of homo-America, as our country continues its moral and cultural descent into degeneracy.
Exactly.. They see the debauchery that pervades this culture and they want nothing of it for their kids. Would that our country’s leaders took the same stance.
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(Assuming, of course, that the economic and political structures have not fatally undermined your ability to work, to benefit from your work, and to marry.)
If one can live in Russia with the liberty to work, marry, beget and raise your kids, it could arguably be a better place to live in than, say, Riverside, CA, where the official unemployment rate is 15% (but the unofficial far higher), where high taxes rob wage-earners of most of their wages, and where their children --- under the guise of health! ---will be instructed in sodomy.
Putinism is a project of gradual restoration of the Soviet Communist system while of course, absorbing the lessons that lead to its defeat in the Cold War. We don’t yet know what the restored system will be in the economic terms. We don’t know to what extent the freedoms of speech and assembly will be reduced in the restored system either. One likely outcome is that the Russian Federation will break up into smaller ethnic enclaves, repeating the collapse of the Soviet Union 22 years earlier.
One of the cornerstones of Putinism is portrayal of the Western system as culturally irreparably liberal. Putinism positions itself as the only force in Russia unwilling to go with communists of the past, while at the same time rejecting the moral corruption of the West. So long as Putin is seen in Russia as a guarantor of conservative values, his popularity in Russia will remain quite high.
This gesture, in itself wholly salutary, should be seen in this context.
Can't say he's wrong in that.
Good is condemned while evil is championed and elevated. Growing up in Amerika.
Putin is not wrong in that, but his objective is not good for neither Russia or the West. If he succeeds, we will see the Russian people re-enslaved and a new anti-American axis emerging between Russia, China and Iran.
Outstanding. I wish our government would show some of the same intestinal fortitude.
just look at the propoganda photos of puttie, he at least looks and acts like a man instead of a fag like obammy.
Good One! :o)
Pray that Christians don’t have to ask for asylum in Russia.
Russians today are taught English at an early age. If they want to be gay, practically the ENTIRE Western World will welcome them and probably give them asylum. They have MANY options other than tearing Russia apart.
“One of the cornerstones of Putinism is portrayal of the Western system as culturally irreparably liberal.”
I’m not sure where you’ve been the past 60 years, but Putin DOES NOT need to portray the West as “Culturally Liberal”.
True; what he does is paint himself as the Third Way: free enterprise combined with traditional morals.
The big lie here is not that the West is liberal but that Putin is therefore what Russia needs. For one thing, the “free enterprise” in Russia chiefly consists of ex-KGB cronies stealing whatever is not bolted down and putting the proceeds off-shore.
>>>>True; what he does is paint himself as the Third Way: free enterprise combined with traditional morals.
The big lie here is not that the West is liberal but that Putin is therefore what Russia needs. For one thing, the “free enterprise” in Russia chiefly consists of ex-KGB cronies stealing whatever is not bolted down and putting the proceeds off-shore.<<<<
South Korea, Singapore, Japan and many other developed nations has started this way. It hasn’t prevented transition to better political structures. What is your alternative for Russians for now? Free republic of old American style could be easily corrupted if implemented carelessly on post-communist society (and Russian history of 1990s with Soros de-facto on top proves it). Putinism is a huge improvement to both Soviet communism and early post-Soviet Yeltsinist ‘Open Society’.
I don’t know about South Korea et al., but in Russian Putin and Putinism actively prevent “transition to better political structures”. For one thing Putin could immediately do an electoral reform so that political parties of any description could be registered and election mechanics are transparent. He can immediately implement media reform so that opposing views can be aired on television. He could release political prisoners and stop jailing new ones, for example, by repealing the “extremism” article of the criminal code, designed to specifically persecute the right wing. These are things he could do in a week’s time if he wanted a “transition to better political structures” at all.
Then there is an issue of non-existent business climate, for which at the present time the Kremlin with its ex-KGB power base is to blame. Presently, to do business in Russia one has to have political connections with Putin’s cronies in United Russia, in which case your business is above the law. If you do it by the books and gain success you will be “raided” by government officials on an arbitrary pretext and lose your business, so that a politically chosen “businessman” can profit from it. This is why Russia has Paris prices and Cairo wages, in case you wondered.
Then there is a constant reintroduction of symbolisms and methods of the Soviet system. In Russia it is not mere symbolism: it is artificially shoring up the servile mentality incompatible with economic and political freedom. There is a cult of the Soviet-German (so-called “Patriotic”) war which fosters a longing for restoration of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe. These attitudes are a brake on normal development of Russia as a peaceful European power striving for prosperity alongside its neighbors.
Under Putin the trajectory for Russia is nothing like what happened with the Southeast Asian “tigers”. Instead Russia will further drift into and African style natural resource colony of the West till it breaks up along its internal ethnic lines, and what was under the Czars a European cultural and economic powerhouse will be a starving wasteland.
Lastly, what is exactly wrong with “Free republic of old American style”? Yeltsinist/Soros “open society” was, remember, a system of secret pillage of the natural and at the time yet significant industrial resource among the KGB and the Communist Party cronies, to which a few wily foreigners were given token access. The trouble with Russia is that Yeltsin did not put a clear break with the Soviet past starting with lustration of the communist and KGB functionaries, so that enterprise could develop on a clean slate. He couldn’t, of course, — he would have been himself lustrated. But he did a few things right: for example, he opened the archives so that the horrors of communism could be seen and learned from. Instead of driving away the demons of Communism further, Putin almost immediately started work on restoration of the Soviet mythology and Soviet political climate. As Putin’s rise to power was accompanied by rising oil prices Putin was able to procure hopes for future prosperity, and associate it with his person. Objectively, Putin was a huge step back from Yeltsin.
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