Clinton challenges Russia on human rights

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up a European tour Wednesday by calling on Russia to uphold human rights and prevent attacks on activists who challenge the Kremlin.

[Kahoki]

What you should be posting is where Clinton agreed to have Russians come into our country and inspect our nuclear weapons facilities.

As the dismantle of America continues.

[Eighthman]

That's funny. After the way her party attacks anybody that would challenge Obama.

What a stupid fat joke dressed in ugly pant-suits.

[BANNED FROM MARS]

Third world war had already started on 8th August 2009.

Good luck monkeys.

[dos]

ah, but Putin wouldn't meet with her AND no agreement was signed=FAILURE!

[Terek Cossack]

BANNED FROM MARS wrote:

Third world war had already started on 8th August 2009.
Good luck monkeys.

Russia and Georgia are hardly the World :)

[Terek Cossack]

If that's what you mean... The anniversary?

[Les Claypool]

Shrillery, challenge them to a drinking contest. You got to earn the respect.

[clone benson]

why doesnt she attack the crummies with helping terrorist with akgs aks ieds,witch are coming from there country,hehehhahahheheheh go figure

[just a guy i knew]

Terek Cossack wrote:

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Russia and Georgia are hardly the World :)

lol

[dos]

Terek Cossack wrote:

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Russia and Georgia are hardly the World :)

can ya think, Austria?

[Dr Lecter]

Too little, too late for Russia?

Is the demographic decline of Russia realy a problem?

What does Clinton think? Will it take a Ruasian Potemkin village to save Russia?

Bring on the babies

Russia has interpreted the crisis by trying to raise its birth rate. The Kremlin has invested heavily in advertising campaigns to promote family life, with placards in the Moscow Metro eulogizing children as ‘masterpieces of nature.’

Financial benefits are offered to those who have a second child as well as benefits for housing and education. Markov argues this is not enough and that United Russia, the dominant political party created as a vehicle for Putin’s ambitions, is set to continue this trend.

“There will be more propaganda. We need to improve the moral atmosphere in the country and will do this by attacking consumer values and promoting distinct traditional ones. We will construct more pre-schools, fight crime [...] and pollution, while continuing our current efforts. Russia needs to be family friendly. In the Far East, however, there is nothing we can do to stop Chinese immigration [...].”

There are signs that the Kremlin’s attempts to raise the birth rate are working. August was the first month in which births outnumbered deaths in Russia for over a decade, and the abortion rate has continued to decline. Experts, however, were guarded on such developments, explaining how demographic trends are notoriously hard to predict and extremely volatile.
Siberian development expert Vladislav Inozomtsev argues that the situation is not as simple as Markov suggests. He argues that Soviet-era settlements are a drain on the Russian economy and that the government would do better to treat the expanses of Siberia and the Far East as a resource frontier like Canada does its far north. He takes a different stance on Chinese migration.

“In fact, the number of Chinese migrants has decreased significantly as life is now better in China that in these poor parts of Russia,” he tells ISN Security Watch.“The real issue is that China is buying up economic assets and Moscow is providing no alternative. Russians are now crossing into China as traders, with the problem of development the region faces being not one of demographics but endemic corruption [...].”

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Se...

[Robespierre]

So Hillary wants to lecture the Kremlin about 'human rights' eh?

That will surely amuse Putin and Medvedev alike, in the light of the obvious abuses committed by the previous White House occupier and his cronies.

Before raising the subject, Hillary Clinton should make sure that her own government is blameless on the subject; and it isn't.

After almost a year in power, Obama still hasn't brought any of the ringleaders behind the rendition programme, the use of torture or the illegal detention in front of the courts. Not one arrest, not one charge; nothing.

Guantanamo Bay is still holding illegal detainees, and the US intervention in Afghanistan is still killing civilians.

Obama is certainly on the side of human rights, but should abstain to admonish other countries until he has put his own country in order.

[Dr Lecter]

Does a shrinking Russia really bother Hillary, or anyone else?

Russia: Gender specifics

Where the future of Siberia and arguments over the birth rate remain largely theoretical, the first crunch point Russia will face as it adapts to a smaller population will hit in 2010-2011. There will not be enough young men to staff its conscript army to the levels deemed necessary by the Russian General Staff.

Alexander Golts, a military expert who has been observing the Russian army since Soviet times, argues that demographics will be the establishment’s moment of truth.
“Our leadership will have to decide what it wants to destroy in 2010-2011, either the current Russian education system that allows widespread exemptions or the current system of military recruitment,” he tells ISN Security Watch.

However, Golts does not believe the conscription problem need be interpreted as a crisis. The rapid reaction forces, improvements in security technology and information technology allowed the military to do without their current demands for a 1 million-strong army.“In fact, they only need between 700,000 to 800,000 to control the borders of the country. They have a mentality stuck in the 1930s.”

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Se...

[Stefanya]

WEll...... it certainly reads well in the papers to have Clinton lecturing Russians, as it certainly takes the focus off of American human rights abuses, from Guantanmo Bay, the phoney attack on Iraq over WMD's which didn't exist, to the wide-spread use of White Slavery a lot of which ends up in the USA...

I guess Clinton is not worried about what is happening to the humanity of Eastern Europe among other places as these countries economies are totally destroyed, and the brains of these countries are stolen to benefit Europe and North America , including those ecxploited in the diseased and destructive whitel slave trade and child pornography... In other words it is okay, if their economies are ruined and people suffer and die for want of everyday things, at 60 percent unemployement, etc... What is important is that the human rights are respected... that is just as long as those who want to oppose a government who is attempting to look out for their country like Russia, and to better the lives of the people, protecting the coutnry from being exploited by the world ready to take advantage.... the kinbd of advantage they haven't been able to take since the days of Boris Yeltsin....

What a phoney bunch of Garbage... The USA, North AMerica and NATO need to worry about their own faults, and abuses of human rights, like banning white slavery and child porn and going agressively against it... After all economic times are tough and they could certainly hire enough government people to put a halting screech to the white slave trade...

[Robespierre]

Popeye wrote:

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RACIST!!!

So, underlining America's failures in the human rights department is racist, eh?

[BANNED FROM MARS]

Terek Cossack wrote:

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Russia and Georgia are hardly the World :)

Dumbass, who said russia and georgia?.

Oh wait, you dont even know?. I had already given a huge clue and that is the date.

But then again.. monkeys is'nt too smart.

[Stefanya]

Robespierre wrote:

So Hillary wants to lecture the Kremlin about 'human rights' eh?
That will surely amuse Putin and Medvedev alike, in the light of the obvious abuses committed by the previous White House occupier and his cronies.
Before raising the subject, Hillary Clinton should make sure that her own government is blameless on the subject; and it isn't.
After almost a year in power, Obama still hasn't brought any of the ringleaders behind the rendition programme, the use of torture or the illegal detention in front of the courts. Not one arrest, not one charge; nothing.
Guantanamo Bay is still holding illegal detainees, and the US intervention in Afghanistan is still killing civilians.
Obama is certainly on the side of human rights, but should abstain to admonish other countries until he has put his own country in order.

EXACTLY!!!! The DOUBLE STANDARDS the west uses in their dealings with Russia on any and every subject is bogus and they should clean up their own countries first....

[Stefanya]

Robespierre wrote:

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So, underlining America's failures in the human rights department is racist, eh?

WEll if you apply the DOUBLE STANDARDS which they apply to Russia versus the rest of the world then they can claim that the USA has no failures in human rights... but only a biased Russophobe can claim that...

[Robespierre]

Popeye wrote:

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Supporting obammy the commie is. This is what is called a teachable moment. Whenever liberals hear something against their messiah, they simply shout RACIST. I figured I would try the same thing ANY time someone is FOR the bastard. I noticed liberals don't like it any better than we do. Just my little way of maybe getting liberals to actually THINK and engage in debate rather than just hurl names first.

Obama is a communist?

Get real ....

You sound so ridiculous!!

[uther pendragon]

The butchers responsible for "crimes against humanity" in the Balkans want to challenge Moskva over human rights?

Is that a joke?