Transparency International: Россия занимает 143 место, набрав 2,3 балла по 10-балльной шкале, где 0 - пктль абсол. кор-ти. Рядом Тонго и Индоезией.

средняя продолжительность жзни в России на 12 лет меньше, чем в США.

Путин ликвидировал мелкие партии (<50 000 человек), установил барьер в 7% для прохождения в Думу, запрет на изб.блоки, отмнл порог явки и графу "Проти

в всех".
В 1999 правлм участвовать в предвыборной гонке обладали 139 общественных объединений, а в 2007- только 15 партий.

При Горбачеве один представитель корпуса гос власти приходился на 220 жителей страны, в 2006 - уже на 90 человек.

the bulk of the public has let a corrupt administration get away with murder - literally, in the case of hundreds of thousands civilians in Iraq.

The panicky public reaction to the attack of 9/11 was unable to upset the balance of relatively sane encryption policy that it had taken decades to set right. However, the abdication of responsibility that took hold of both the Congress and the bulk of the public has let a corrupt administration get away with murder - literally, in the case of hundreds of thousands civilians in Iraq. Civil rights and moral standards as basic as the prohibition on torture, the freedom to moe around in your own country, and the universal condemnation of unprovoked attacks on other countries have all fallen by the wayside.
(John Gilmore, Electronic Frontier Foundation, October 31, 2004 ---Foreword to "Brute Force: Cracking the data encryption standard" by Matt Curtin, p. vi)

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilage to be free. (Charles Evans Hughes, chief justice of the United States 1930-1941)

In 1994, the FBI Digital Telephony wiretap proposal passed the Congress in 1994.