What happens when Putin is gone?

[Scisca]

Ruler said:

Scisca said:

You live in Latvia and you think you're safe? Wow. That's very brave if you ask me. Totally not what I was expecting.

The number of scenarios for Russia is huge. It is close to falling apart yet again, it may stay the way it is, it may even grow. One thing is certain - there will be no democracy there, cause there is no need for it in the society and the country is run by a mob basically either way. They will be searching for a new strong leader soon. Question is - at what cost? What cost for the Russians and other surrounding countries.

Also, USA and China will play a major role in the whole process. As always, Russia is a giant on clay feet.

And you think you have democracy in poland? These new media laws are heavily cutting freedom of speech.

Most countries sorounding russia have worse human rights records and rule of law than Russia, this includes the baltic countries where like 30% of the population cant vote and have no citizenship.

The only democracies are japan and finland

We do, it's still young but it's getting better and better as we're eliminating post-communists from the public sphere.

What's wrong with the media laws? What cutting of the freedom of speech? I have no idea what you're talking about. Trust me, in Germany you can only dream of having freedom of speech as we have it in Poland. The fact that your government was capable of forcing ALL MEDIA to remain silent about Koeln for a week was a shock for us. If it wasn't for Internet, nobody would ever know! That's heavily cut freedom of speech! Believe it or not, but our journalists were shocked by that and all agreed that there's no way any government could do that in Poland. Doesn't matter which party ruled, it would be impossible. When it comes to freedom of speech, countries like Germany or Sweden aren't even close to us and we pity you very much.