“You are free to travel, start your own small business, and access foreign culture as long as it is not political and anti-regime. Fairly typical for most non-democratic regimes.”
I understand this statament as a provocation.
Go ahead and start your own business in Russia. We will see what you will achieve…
Travelling? Get a passport first, then visa after you pay significant bribes…
Foreign culture? As well as it is not anti-regime? You must have not heard about the antixenophobic laws installed already during the FIRST term of George W Bush.
If you have KGB dominated regime than I do not think that real change took place.
You may or may not know that free elections in Russia even local ones were just abolished by Duma.
Never claimed Russia is a democracy.
Identified as authoritarian.
In authoritarian regimes bribes are par for the course.
Russia also has 13% flat tax rate as opposed to the real 50% tax rates here for the successful. Slightly different than the 80’s.
To claim no real change has taken place is just plain stupid.
I have traveled to Russia and Cuba.
There is a massive difference.
“You must have not heard about the antixenophobic laws installed already during the FIRST term of George W Bush.”
WTF do you mean by this? Xenophobic is irrational fear of the foreign. Anti fear-of-foreign laws?
So what is actually wrong with having anti-xenophobic laws?
Anti-negative is positive.
~Foreign culture? As well as it is not anti-regime? You must have not heard about the antixenophobic laws installed already during the FIRST term of George W Bush.~
What?
~Travelling? Get a passport first, then visa after you pay significant bribes...~
Where are you from? Last time I ve check in most countries including US you need a passport to travel abroad. As for visas they are being granted by foreign consulates, not the Russian government. If there is a bribery I don’t think it is a Russian problem to begin with.
~Go ahead and start your own business in Russia. We will see what you will achieve…~
LOL.