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We should improve the legal knowledge of ordinary people - minister
Published: 21 January, 2010, 20:32
Edited: 24 January, 2010, 15:59
Russian law has always been a complicated issue. RT has interviewed Aleksander Konovalov, Russia’s Justice Minister on widespread distrust in the country's legal system and on planned measures to improve the situation.
Marzipan6 never misses a chance to spew" hate of anything Russian or Russia. Go/stay in Estonia. We should rename you Malcontent6. RF is not very old and is moving well into its style of democracy, "not" US occupiers style which you admire so much US decades old, still lecturing the world even as it is number one human rights abuser, crimes against humanity and civil rights and war crimes. And, US provides most sophisticated weapons- billions in CASH to keep 43 year occupation of Palestine going. The Jewish state wouldn't spend a dime on occupation if it were not for its "pay master" US who enables Israel to keep others territories.[ After WW2, UN created by US and four others now UNSC permanent members with veto power.UN Charter made it "illegal" against international law to "gain territory via war" Jewish state/Israel is a signatory to UN but "refuses"to honor and/or fulfill its numerous decades old outstanding UNSC resolutions mostly regarding Palestine which US its pay master ignores too while Israel uses UN to complain, protest loudly against Iran [not one shred of evidence making or trying to make nukes, Israel and US even planted a computer saying it had nuke drawling as proof in English, not farce, how stupid. And other lies aset up by US and Israel "neither" a democracy both occupiers war criminals, etc listed above..So tell us what nation state(s) practices democracy in your opinion?
As is so typical, whenever attention is drawn to inappropriate behaviour by Russia, apologists change the subject to someone else’s behaviour, usually America’s. Or shoot the messenger. The fact remains that here is Russia’s Justice Minister, drawing an absolutely devastating picture about the state of the rule of law in Russia. Yet just about every second week, one of his government colleagues, or a member of the Duma, or a high Russian bureaucrat, or a Russian media outlet, makes some lurid statement, on the basis of assumed high Russian moral ground and usually on the basis of misinformation, about alleged lack of democracy in Estonia. My pointing out the inappropriateness of this is not a case of my “spewing hate of anything Russian or Russia.” It is a case of my pointing out the hypocrisy of Russia’s never-ending stream of blame, accusation and finger-pointing not only towards Estonia, but towards all the Baltic States. While SJ appears not to mind it at all, the target countries of Russians ceaseless accusations are thoroughly fed up with it, and on the basis of realities which the Russian Justice Minister details in his interview, accusers should be overwhelmed by embarrassed silence. However, I doubt that they will be, and I doubt that SJ will complain about it when they're not.
And Russia lectures Estonia, and its other European neighbours, about democracy?