Over the weekend Mayor Yuri M. Luzhkov stated that he plans on spending over 100 million dollars to rebuild the society. He would go on later to say that they are celebrating a victory for freedom and independence. Mr. Luzhkov is the Mayor of Moscow not Tskhinvali where the South Ossetians where when the were trying to fight for their freedom. I dont understand how he can call it a victory for freedom when the opposing side was fighting for the same purpose, but gained nothing from it. A good point is made in this article. Foriegn governments protest basically saying that he is detroying everything they built in their society whether it be their society or freedom. Yuri replies back by saying that he is doing this to expand Moscow's sister-city. Yuri M. Luzhkov is what I call a hyprocrit, one second he says that he is celebrating for the victory of freedom and on the other hand here he is invading someone eles privacy. He is only worried about his own country and he is not protecting Moscow's freedom he is adding to it by invading other countries rights and freedoms. Later on in the article it talks about how Luzhkov was critized for his thoughts on Crimea, in a newspaper. He had city officials try to evict the paper from the builing, but officials stopped after a small like riot broke out. This article only goes to show that Russia is not striving for press freedom and democracy. Russia is far from either one of those two things, I think the United Nations needs to step in a create a Universal Law or something to spark press freedom over in Russia.
Tyler Mcdowell
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