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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
Sounds a lot like the country he fled from.
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Given the fact that i am fluent in Russian and English and have spent substantial parts of my life in both countries, i can say emphatically that there are absolutely no comparisons between both nations in these ways and they are absolutely nothing at all alike in these ways. Russia has changed a great deal since the collapse of the Soviet Union and made tremendous progress in many ways thanks largely to Mr Putin who faced a very daunting and seemingly impossible task to start taking the country back from Yeltsin era oligarchs and stemming corruption, normalizing the tax codes, legal system etc, but when it comes to individual freedoms, rights, freedom of speech etc, they have made very little progress. And these,.... these very things, are all the things Snowden claims to be fighting for.