[A. Pole]

Rainbow Revolutions bump

[anonymoussierra]

""MOSCOW - A creeping crackdown is underway in Russia as the Kremlin has accused nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) of spying, moved to restrict political parties, and is considering measures that would weaken its print media.

Earlier this month Nikolai Patrushev, head of the state's FSB security service, charged that NGOs - including the US Peace Corps, the British Merlin medical relief foundation, and the Arab Red Crescent Society - were vehicles for "conducting intelligence operations under the guise of charity" activities. All the named groups issued angry denials.

Tough talk of limiting Russia's foreign-funded civil society, coupled with a new election law to limit the political field, does not represent a sudden shift, but rather a trend begun under President Vladimir Putin to tighten control over the country's press and public politics, experts say.

"We are returning to the Soviet system of governing, when all was officially under control, although in practice nothing was actually under control," says Dmitri Oreshkin, an expert with Merkator, an independent think tank. "The state being constructed through this process will be unitarian [have a single power center] and will, to a great extent, be an authoritarian state.""

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Given the International Red Cross' behavior elsewhere, I am utterly unsurprised that the Red Crescent is under suspicion.

[Wiz]

This movement by Putin is nothing but a justification to enhance his step toward dictatorship and neo-Stalinism, suppressing freedom of speech. This is a challenge against democracy and cannot be justified.

[winodog]

We are returning to the Soviet system of governing, when all was officially under control, although in practice nothing was actually under control

Haha I dont know if thats doublespeak or if they mean they were so incompetant that they had no control. Probaly the latter

[Honorary Serb]

Most of the "human rightser" NGOs are owned by George Soros and ARE subversive. The case of NGO subversion of FYR Macedonia in order to give half the country to the local KLA organization, and to prevent the Slavic Christians from fighting back under threat of "war crimes" prosecution at the Hague, is well-known. Some of the same NGOs are here in the US, and are promoting "gay rights", "diversity", etc., which is fascism by another name!!!!

Yes, I would like to see a democratic Russia, but not one subverted, top to bottom, by Soros and his mangy crew. That, after all, is no democracy at all. The same, of course, goes for Serbia and especially America. People who are for real human rights, including Christian human rights, need to give Soros the old heave-ho and form brand-new human rights organizations.

[jb6]

Arab Red Crescent Society

They're not spies, well at least not in Israel, there they're weapons/suicider delivery vehicles.

[Flightdeck]

Just got back from there on Saturday. I'm glad I'm American.