There is corruption in every country. In Russia, it is not a characteristic, but the basis for how it is run. Putin made it the system.
Ukraine was corrupt when Manafort installed that Putin puppet prior to Zelensky.
There is corruption in every country. In Russia, it is not a characteristic, but the basis for how it is run. Putin made it the system.
Russian parents are thrilled that their children are being sent to war with no training, little equipment and no rifles or ammunition. They are just fodder for Putin. The mark of a great country.
The State of Ukrainian Democracy Is Not Strong
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Ukraine security service officers secure the St. George Cathedral during a search operation of the premises of religious sites in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv
"As reports of the arrest of dissidents began spreading early in the war, Zelensky and his party first suspended and then banned eleven opposition parties."
"Zelensky has centralized nearly all of Ukraine’s national TV channels into one government-controlled platform."
The Hunt for Traitors
One of those Telegram channels was “Repression of the Left and dissenters in Ukraine,” which from its creation on March 15 documented the deteriorating state of political freedoms and human rights in wartime Ukraine.
“Charges of state treason and collaboration are often trumped up and used as a form of political repression without any evidence of actual treason and collaboration,”
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/ukraine...9YrhnPl-zz72-8A2ttsZ8nZWaD-TDQYi9JzC0ThXIDHxA