[lbo-talk] Orhan Pamuk - Why Butler is stupid

[Chris Doss]

I'd like to add that, if this is representative of how
uninformed and arrogant people in the West are on
matters Russian, then Slava Bogu! (Thank God!) that
the West has almost zero influence on Russia.

--- boddi satva <lbo.boddi at gmail.com> wrote:


> The notion that this government makes any net effort
> in the developing
> world to promote democracy is laughable. Turkey is
> not even terribly
> repressive compared to our other "friends". Russia
> is not just being
> allowed, but encouraged to slide into
> authoritarianism (and Chris,
> it's not just the Chechens that Moscow is beating
> up). 

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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