The "extensive litigation" you mention is the REAL culprit in why capital punishment can take decades to ever provide justice to murderers!...
Actually, an internationally-respected Russian polling organization, the Yuri Levada Analytical Center does show that Putin's support is measured...
Capital punishment would deter crime very effectively if only it were used effectively and the sentences were carried out in somewhat less than...
Very interesting.... So, Shoigu gets Patrushev's job, and Patrushev gets knocked down a rung on the who's-who ladder to be one of Putin's...
Thank you! I honestly did not know that... and although there were more than a few things about Trump that I didn't like, his ending an...
Well, if those criminals are on "Death Row", then why shouldn't the sentences be carried out?! Anyway, Trump could lobby for it, but he wouldn't...
And that's the greatest irony and paradox of all.. Russia (and China) are imaginatively developing "neo-Capitalism" , while here in the States,...
Andrey Belousov is the 'new kid in town' at the Russian Defense Ministry. He's a 'bean-counter' economist with no military experience whatever....
I wasn't criticizing the Russian national debt-versus-GDP, Bill. I cited a statistic from the provided link that was accurate in 2022, and that's...
Russia's national debt-versus-GDP ratio is 17.2%. Link: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/debt-to-gdp-ratio-by-country . It is...
Oh, it's clear that "Pootler" has a plan... and so far, as I said, to our dismay that plan has been successful in staving-off the financial...
You don't understand that INTEREST on the National Debt is the real 'giant-killer' in this scenario! Those who promote the reckless,...
I agree that Putin isn't trying to be some kind of Josef Stalin... he's too smart for that, and, as it should be clear to everyone by now -- at...
Can anyone doubt that the majority of Palestinians support Hamas? Links:...
But using that same kind of logic, shouldn't "Kyiv" belong to Constantinople? And, further, shouldn't it all belong to the Roman Empire?...
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