Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
In terms of freedom, America doesn't invite any comparison to Russia. It would be silly to make one. Every line that I care to write, I can have printed. There is no point to even talk about degrees.
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
What Russia really needs is not gay rights but human rights, and the rule of law.
We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.