Posts Tagged ‘alykhan’
Death and diplomacy in Russia
There’s a little diplomatic row happening between Russia and the United States. Odds are very good you haven’t even heard about it. It hasn’t received much coverage. But as quiet and minor as it may be, with each country putting a handful of citizens from the other country on a visa blacklist, it has to do with a much deeper, more troublesome story: the story of human rights abuses and corruption running as rampant as ever in Russia.
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WSJ: Russia’s Dead Soul
We wrote recently about Russia’s horrific injustice and state brutality as epitomized by the outrageous case of Sergei Magnitsky, a fairly young lawyer who found himself framed, tortured and effectively murdered by Vladimir “KGB” Putin’s police state for having stumbled, apparently inadvertently, into one of the largest cases of tax fraud in Russia’s history. As befits the perverted nature of Putinian Russia, it was police committing the fraud.
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