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Russian Health Care Is Dying a Slow Death

The Moscow Times

Changes to the Russian national health care system have proceeded according to an obscure logic and led to very mixed results for medical personnel — and sometimes to lethal results for patients. The authorities wanted to optimize and modernize the system by boosting the quality of medical care and making it more accessible. Instead, medical care has become inaccessible for a large part of the population, especially in rural areas: doctors labor under increased workloads, thereby compromising patient care; mortality in hospitals has increased; general morbidity is on the rise; and doctors are inundated with paperwork.

Putin Declares War on Russians' Health

Russia warns of 2 million HIV carriers in five years

Across the board slashes have affected all areas of the Russian budget except for the Military sector. Doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers in Moscow protested in late 2014 over hospital closings and layoffs. 17,500 towns and villages now have no medical infrastructure whatsoever. Two weeks ago the lawyer for Ukrainian POW Lt. Nadiya Savchenko demanded that his client be returned to a prison infirmary rather than remain in a civilian hospital another day.

Savchenko Lawyer Says Conditions In Hospital Worse than Jail
 
Why Putin Treats Fantasy as History

Putin’s Schizophrenic Fellow Travelers

The founder of 'Russia's Facebook' explains how the Kremlin took his company away

The founder of Russia's most popular social network recently described to Mashable how he chose to flee his native Moscow after Kremlin loyalists wrested control of the company away from him. Pavel Durov, 30, seen by many as Russia's Mark Zuckerberg, created the website VKontakte — which had 69 million monthly users — before drawing the ire of Russian FSB agents when political protest pages began sprouting up...
 
Russian protesters demand withdrawal of Russian soldiers from Ukraine

Merkel's Remark On 'Criminal' Annexation Omitted In Russian Translation

Putin's Soviet Revival Misfires

Poland says it will match Russia's diplomatic hostility

Poland will reciprocate if Russia continues to bill for Poland's diplomatic buildings in Russia, the foreign minister said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna spoke after the Arbitration Court in St. Petersburg allowed bailiffs to evict Poland's consulate there, saying Poland owes some $1 million in rent. A few years ago Poland cancelled a communist-era agreement regulating mutual use of diplomatic premises, saying that Russia was not observing it. Warsaw is urging new negotiations to obtain full reciprocity but there has been no progress.

Poland has protested the court's decision, saying diplomatic premises have immunity and noting that Russia is using about a dozen buildings in Poland rent-free. Schetyna said if Russia continues to bill Poland it will "receive the same treatment from the Polish side. Russia's overdue rent is much, much higher than that of the Polish consulate in St. Petersburg." he said.
 
Russia budget crunch shows no quick end to economic pain

May 20 - Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov warned on Wednesday the country would face no choice but to rein in public spending over the next few years, highlighting how Russia is still in deep economic trouble even if it has dodged an immediate meltdown. Speaking after a meeting between government ministers and President Vladimir Putin to talk about the budget, Siluanov described a situation where Russia's public finances were running out of choices. "There's no question, we cannot pretend that nothing is going on," he told reporters.

So far no decisions have been made on what cuts to make and where they will fall. Putin has ordered that spending on defence and national security - which together account for about a third of the federal budget - should not be touched. Rebuilding the military is a central part of his appeal to voters, many of whom hanker after the days when the massive Soviet armed forces projected Russian might around the world. "(Russia) cannot possibly manage such a high rate of military spending now," Sergei Guriev, a former rector of the New Economic School in Moscow, said in a commentary published last week.

In order to finance its military expenditures, Moscow is tapping into "well-being" reserves that were deposited when the price of oil was high and no international sanctions were in place. These funds were intended to ameliorate an emergency situation such as when the ruble tumbled and Russia defaulted on debt in 1998.

Russia has already spent more than half of its total military budget for 2015 in the first quarter. At this rate, its reserve fund will be emptied before the end of the year.
 
Lol those dumb Russians.

Whenever I need a good laugh I just tune into what's going on in Russia.
 
Yeay :D ...You've finally listened to me and started your own thread for butthurt over everything/anything Russia related.


Here, I've found a little something to mark the occasion.




Fallen.
 
Russian Tycoon Perepilichny 'May Have Been Poisoned'

Shades of Litvinenko


Russia bans 'undesirable' NGOs, sparking international outcry

Sun May 24, 2015

Non-governmental organizations working in Russia awoke Sunday to a new reality -- that they operate now under a law that allows the government to prosecute them on the grounds they are 'undesirable.' And those who work for such organizations could be sentenced to as much as six years in prison. The new measure, signed into law Saturday by President Vladimir Putin, has provoked an international outcry. The U.S. State Department said it was "deeply troubled." Amnesty International said the law threatened "fundamental freedoms." Human Rights Watch called it a "piece of repressive legislation."

More repression courtesy of Vlad
 
To some it looks as though the West created a crisis in Ukraine, blamed it on Russia and is practicing a repressive sanctions regime.
 
Peas In a Pod: Putin's Russia and Mussolini's Italy


Russian ditches slow arms smuggling from Ukraine


Russian journalists move to Riga to set up an independent media in exile

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Some 20 veterans of the Russian online newspaper Lenta.ru escaped Russia to start their independent Meduza project in the Latvian capital of Riga
 
Which now leads to this...

Vladimir Putin declares all Russian military deaths state secrets


Putin declares Russian troop deaths in peacetime a secret


Putin Classifying Troop Losses Proves They're in Ukraine – Analysts

The Moscow Times
May. 28 2015

Legal amendments introduced Thursday that classify as state secrets any losses sustained during peacetime special operations are further confirmation of Russia's direct involvement in the Ukraine conflict, legal and military experts told The Moscow Times. The amendments, signed by President Vladimir Putin, make "information disclosing the loss of personnel … during special operations in peacetime" a classified state secret.

Putin has repeatedly denied any involvement of Russian troops in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. Asked to explain Putin's move Thursday, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov had no immediate comment, Reuters reported. Military servicemen who are killed, injured or go missing can be considered military losses, meaning their relatives will be forced to keep information about their deaths a secret, lawyers said Thursday. "Even a death notification sent to parents or other relatives [of a soldier] can be considered a secret under this decree," Ivan Pavlov, a leading lawyer in the field of government transparency who has successfully defended treason suspects, told The Moscow Times.

The federal list of what constitutes a state secret can be accessed publicly, but government agencies also compile their own lists that are themselves usually classified. Moreover, what the Defense Ministry classifies as a secret could be considered open information by the Interior Ministry, Pavlov said. "If a citizen, for instance a journalist, obtains information that is considered a state secret, they face prison. The main consequence of this law is that it will basically be impossible to obtain information."
 
Putin’s Russia: Don’t Walk, Don’t Eat, and Don’t Drink


Nemtsova: 'I am fighting against dictatorship in Russia'

Interview with Zhanna Nemtsova ... daughter of assassinated Russian activist Boris Nemtsov.


Meet the ‘Kremlin trolls’, the humans behind Putin’s propaganda machinery

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Lyudmila Savchuk, a single mother with two children, was once a Kremlin troll working as part of
an immense propaganda machine trying to shape public opinion not only across Russia but also
in the United States and Europe
 
US foreign policy, uniting Russia and China. That's got to be a great idea.

China challenges US economic war against Russia

Directly challenging the NATO powers’ policy of cutting off credit to Russia to undermine the ruble and bankrupt the Russian economy, China is pledging to extend financial aid to Moscow.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/12/23/chin-d23.html
 
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