https://freedomhouse.org/country/russia/freedom-world/2021 Russia NOT FREE 20 / 100 Political Rights: 5 / 40 Civil Liberties 15 / 60
LAST YEAR'S SCORE & STATUS 20 / 100 Not Free
"NOT FREE" in the sense of "NED/Soros puppets like Nawalny are not allowed to start a color revolution" and, even more evil, "one of the last Orthodox countries standing".
i'm sure you know: after communists hijack a country, they prohibit liberalism. "color revolutions" aren't allowed because they're subversive to putin's dictatorship. if you lived in russia, i doubt that you would say it's a free country. and russian people don't even have the freedom to say it.
There are many more Communists in the US than are left in Russia. After US and Russian oligarchs stripped the assets of the Soviet Union, there was no Communism left. The Russians rebuilt their country with a Capitalist model. Ex Communists fled the country after they grabbed the assets and are living in London and NY now, hiding from the Russian justice system because they have stolen millions. Most of the stories about "Russia bad" are told by these people because they don't want normalized relations to Russia (this is similar to ISIS terrorists seeking asylum by telling that Assad is a butcher).
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