Comments on: Jamison Firestone: “What Future Do They Want for Russia?”

By: Dennis Hopple

Dennis Hopple — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:48:22 +0000

Jamison,
We had such hig hopes for Russia and the young people who are becoming truly international. What we didn’t fully ralize is that the political system did not really change with the end of the Soviet Union, the corruption became big business and the all omportant “connections” with thone in power became the best way to steal. Sergey’s death was a tremendous personal blow to my faith in change. I need to constantly remind myself that it will take generations not 20 years to really change the system.

Keep up the fight. You are a powerful voice in the wilderness.

Dennis

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:34:18 +0000

It is not the future your are talking about. It is Russia’s past, present and, unfortunately, at least nearest future.

“a little bit illegal” attitude to day-to-day life is a norm here and most of Russians think that being honest and straight in your thoughts and values is stupid, they just don’t have enough courage to acknowledge it.

Everything starts with ridicules speeding on worn out roads and informing your fellow friends, potential baby killers, with blinking light about the presence of corrupt traffic cops and continues further to endless kick backs on all levels from useless provincial university diploma purchase to “acquiring” juicy Sochi contracts. Russians “know how to live” and they are the only ones to be blamed for poorness and future hopelessness of their country. Just 140 mln people, not more the that…

By: grigorij

grigorij — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:16:52 +0000

Talk isn’t about withdrawal of charges but about withdrawal of claims to the prison administration. All this media war looks like a quite disgusting under carpet movement to move looks away from Duncan Fireston deals in Russia under the face of “holy war” with corruption…