http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org/2006/10/19/khodorkovsky-politkovskaya Comments for "From Khodorkovsky to Politkovskaya" en http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org/2006/10/19/khodorkovsky-politkovskaya <p><strong>Assessing Russia's Impunity of Hate and Intimidation</strong></p> <p>If one were to bracket the period from Mikhail Khodorkovsky's political arrest three years ago, to last week's assassination of Moscow independent journalist Anna Politkovskaya, we find the breakdown of rule of law and free speech in Russia, without which democracy cannot stand. Putin's brand of democracy has morphed into a Soviet-style climate of hate and intimidation targeting peaceful dissenters, human rights and religious freedom NGOs and their monitors and activists, and other truth tellers, especially independent journalists.</p> <p><a href="http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org/2006/10/19/khodorkovsky-politkovskaya">read more</a></p> http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org/2006/10/19/khodorkovsky-politkovskaya#comments Antisemitism Neo-Nazis Russia Xenophobia Federal Governments Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:22:36 -0700 Micah H. Naftalin 206 at http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org