Re: Death of Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Russian Christian writer jailed by

On May 20, 4:42=A0pm, Marko Amnell <marko_amn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 20 touko, 00:29, ++ <fri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Marko Amnell wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > >"According to Transparency International, the only
> > >country with higher income per capita and more
> > >corruption than Russia is Equatorial Guinea. That is
> > >hardly a standard worthy of a great nation."
>
> > >http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1016/42/362262.htm
>
> > >Still no evidence? Well, why don't you contact
> > >Transparency International and ask them how
> > >they arrived at that conclusion.
>
> > And you are assuming that people here aren't familiar with
Transparency
> > International...
>
> Let's get back to my initial disagreement with you.
> You said that Russia is a Western country. That
> is what I disagreed with. The high level of corruption
> is just one indication that Russia is not a Western
> country.

If pollution, dehumanisation, bigotry, wiping out wildlife, etc. are
measures of corruption, then all Western countries are not Western.