Six Strikes and Russia is Out of the G-8?
Filed under: Russia
Prague Watchdog reports that Russia has now been convicted for the sixth time in just this year alone for gross human rights violations in Chechnya by the European Court for Human Rights, including numerous acts of state-sponsored murder.
SIX times in ONE YEAR? Whatever happened to the good old "three strikes and you're out"? Russia has far more cases pending before the ECHR than any other nation and, outrageously, is currently taking steps to limit ECHR access by Russians rather than actually changing its behavior justifying the prosecutions.
How is it possible that this barbaric nation holds a veto on the U.N. Security Council and a seat on the G-8 team of elite democracies? How can anyone even think of investing money in this uncivilized dictatorship or of attending the Olympic games there -- right in the very region where all these breathtaking state-sponsored murders are taking place? Speaking of the Olympics, it seems that American IOC voters are the ones that gave Russia the 2014 games, a final outrage by the failed Bush administration that will live in infamy but which, at least, totally refutes any claimed anti-Russian bias in the United States.