Now, if his crimes have been found, have Putin's?
In China almost all officials are corrupt. Xi has decided to do an "anti-corruption drive" that just happens to ignore his supporters and targets his enemies.
So, all those convicted are corrupt might be true, that's not really the point, is it?
Corruption in the USA exists as well as in EU and Russia unfortunately.
And ours is not worse than yours. The only difference is propaganda- your mass media use corruption as a reason for rallies and even coups.
No, I disagree.
Putin is one step ahead. Propaganda exists anywhere. But Putin is doing things that in the US would be considered bad.
You make assumptions about who I am and where I'm from, I don't tell people, and you shouldn't assume.
The killing of political opponents at home, or the getting rid of them in a way where that person can have no control over it, isn't something done in the US or in western Europe.
That's not to say the US doesn't kill to get what it wants, but Russia does it in a manner that is far more dangerous.
US "democracy" is weak because of two political parties and rich people taking over.
Russian "democracy" is weaker because one man controls the whole thing. In the US there are people vying for control, that's different.
Killing political opponents?
Give at least one example. The real one.. not your media fantasy.
Putin is not "the one man who controls everything", but his team is. And it is good because otherwise country will not move forward.
Have a look at the USA today. Political opponents fight each other instead of doing some good things together. They forgot the real aim of their being authorities. Instead of some progress they try to enhance their political position.
And speaking about democracy I am absolutely sure it is wrong way of ruling the country. Any strong company is ruled not by democratic principles but by clever and strong director who has smart managers who simple make decisions and say all employees what to do. Country is almost the same as large business company but with huge social expenses.
Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium 210. Now, the first thing here is, who would kill with polonium 210?
Polonium 210 is rare, it's expensive and is often a byproduct of other nuclear material. It's short half-life means that it would have to have come from a country that has nuclear facilities.
Russia is one of those few countries. Nine countries have nuclear weapons.
Who has a reason to kill this guy of nuclear countries? The UK? Why? He escaped to the UK and became a British citizen. What reason does the UK have? None, as far as I can tell.
Anyone else? No reason.
Litvinenko wrote two books criticizing the FSB and criticized Putin claiming he had Anna Politkovskaya assassinated.
Many reasons why Putin might want him dead.
Sergei Skripal was in a similar situation. A guy who'd ended up in the UK. The FSB didn't like him because he'd been a double agent.
This time it was Novichok nerve agent used. Who has Novichok? The Russians developed it and not many countries will have this, if any other than Russia.
Now, you can see in how Russia reacted to this attack, how Russia deals with such attacks. I can point to the downing of the Malaysian Airlines flight over the Ukraine that Russia will use misinformation to confuse a more open western media.
They claimed there was a satellite photo showing a Ukrainian fighter jet shooting down the plane. Now, we know and Russia has accepted that it was shot down with a SAM, not an air to air missile.
So, why would Russia release a photo that is clearly photoshopped to show something that is clearly a lie? To spread misinformation. To give conspiracy theory hacks ammo to spread such misinformation.
Clearly a country that was innocent would have no need to make a photo to try and make the other side in a war seem guilty of that crime.
In the case of Skripal, Russia did some very interesting things.
They said it might have come from Porton Down. This seem to have been done to check whether Porton Down actually has this. Russia didn't know. It made the claim and waited to see the response of the UK govt. The UK govt seemed to imply that potentially the UK does have this nerve agent.
So Putin got more out of this than he expected.
But again, why would the UK kill a guy who'd come over in a spy swap. If they wanted him dead, or unable to communicate, they'd have left him in Russia to rot.
Who else would want a Russian traitor and an FSB traitor dead?
I could go on all day. The evidence mounts up in each case. The more you add, the more patterns you see and the more convinced you are that Putin is assassinating his political opponents and people he sees as traitors, people who might harm his image and the like.
1. Litvinenko. Why Brits made that investigation top secret? No information neither for Russian authorities nor for public. And they didn't allow Russian police to take part in that investigation. Court process began in 2014...same time with Ukrainian coup when antirussian hysteria increased. Same time 2 most important witnesses were found dead - Berezovsky (who had deals with Litvinenko) and David West (owner of the restaurant).
So there is no real evidence but only blaming.
And what was the reason to kill Litvinenko? He wasn't a threat to Russian authorities. The reason could be his business relations to someone or to MI6 which is more likely as they rightly worked with Berezovsky.
Ok, how stupid one should be to kill someone by polonium which can easily be tracked. If you want to kill someone intelligence service have huge number of silent, reliable way to do it for sure and without any tracks. Or one may use polonium and to create tracks aiming to set-up someone else.
Another Russian businessman Perepelichny was killed. And Brits tried to hide the fact MI6 worked with him. And again investigation became top secret.
2. Skripals. Novichok was created not in Russia but in the USSR, in laboratory in Uzbekistan. That laboratory was under USA control, its warehouses went to the USA. Creator of Novichok lives in the US since 90s. Novichok was produced by different laboratories in EU including Czech and UK.
How could Skripals survive after such a strong agent? How could they be saved if it is supposed doctors didn't know what happened to them? Where did they get antidote? How could Brits know it was Russia to poison them after few hours when no any laboratory analyses were known?
A lot of questions and the only answer - British provocation.
And what is the reason to kill Skripal? He spent some time in Russian jail, was changed to our spies. Several years passed. Now he wasn't dangerous for Russia at all. And suddenly a month before the World cup Putin decided to kill him. Insane!
But very good injection of antirussian hysteria for public consumption.
3. MH17 in Donbass.
Russians are not allowed to investigation. Information from Russian radars were given the next day after the plane crashed. And there is data showing presence of Ukrainian SU25. It was not known if it shot or not. but there was such a version. Looks like he didn't shot but observed.
Do you know that the pilot of that SU25 retired from Ukrainian air force and became a director of Nikolaev's airport? He was younger than 30 years old! And he suicides couple months ago.
Ukrainian air traffic controller ordered MH17 to change the root and it was shot down after that. That dispatcher, a woman disappeared and nobody knows where she is now.
After MH17 was shot down Ukrainian army intended shelling of the location where it fell and international specialists could not visit that place for a long time. While local rebels helped them as much as they could - stopped fire, protected investigators and helped to gather wreckage parts.
Producer of Buk system which was used to shot down that Boeing created a lot of documents explaining nuances of how it works and even made an experimental shot down of the plane like that. Those information is not taken into account while Ukraine uses old version of Buk not the same as Russian.
...there are many other facts...
Now please tell me what was the reason for rebels and Russia to shot down that plane.
And now let's remember when MH17 was shot down? It was 2 days before the meeting where EU planned to discuss first sanctions against Russia!
So, it's absolutely clear who needed that kind of provocation. Besides the USA (puppet masters of Ukraine) feels ok to shot down civilian planes.
So, my friend, nice try. Go on