<blockquote> ‘..Human beings are still so undiscovered..’
- Charlize Theron (
Source)</blockquote>
'..We should bring up our children and talk to them on spiritual topics, disclose their talents..'<blockquote>'..Only we can improve the situation. We must learn to express ourselves and to show our best quality traits. We should try not to live only as consumers but to develop ourselves, read books, listen to interesting music, and be interested in scientific achievements. Politics, to communicate with good people, develop creativity, bringing into this world something new. We should bring up our children and talk to them on spiritual topics, disclose their talents and only then we reject everything unnecessary, affected, and pretentious. When we seriously begin to take care of our country it will blossom and shine brightly.'
- Natalia Pereverzeva (
Source, November 19, 2012)</blockquote>
'We are witnessing a growing divide between the people and the government .. citizens want legal certainty and more political say.'<blockquote>'The Center for Strategic Research in Moscow has been studying the coordinates of Russian society for years. It was the only institute to predict last winter's mass protests.
"We are witnessing a growing divide between the people and the government," says Mikhail Dmitriev, the center's president. The Kremlin, he adds, is deluding itself when it celebrates shrinking numbers of participants in demonstrations and the declining popularity ratings of opposition leaders like Navalny and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov as a victory.
Dmitriev, an economist, believes that Russian sensitivities are reflected in statistics. He knows the rows of figures that attest to the successes of Putin's early reforms by heart. He is also familiar with the figures showing that Russia has managed to eliminate extreme poverty, which is defined as having to make do with less than €2 a day. He can also name the indicators of a growing middle class, including the fact that there are now 180 registered mobile phones for every 100 Russian citizens. According to another statistic, Russians now spend more on cat food than the Americans.
"All of this points to dramatic changes," says Dmitriev. "Now that the refrigerators are full and trips abroad are affordable, citizens want legal certainty and more political say." And perhaps they also want change from below.'
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Small Victories, November 21, 2012</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
'..a Russia that is fed up with an arbitrary legal system, state control and corrupt elites.'(Russian Reform) - '..the Magnitsky Act is exactly the right thing to do.''..The destruction of Russia and Kampuchea, the humiliation of the Chinese and Eastern European people..' - Yuri N. Maltsev</blockquote>