Gershkovich's Sentencing Exposes Corruption in Russian Legal System

Evan Gershkovich, a journalist for The Wall Street Journal, was sentenced to 16 years in a Russian prison on espionage charges. There are ongoing discussions about a potential prisoner exchange to secure his release. One possibility is that Gershkovich could be exchanged for Sergey Cherkasov, a Russian accused of espionage in the United States. This process shows how corrupt the Russian legal system is and how easily it can convict innocent people just to have a suitable exchange partner for a Russian spy on the American side.

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BritishFailedAesthetic · M

It's crazy therre are so many Pro Putin nutjobs on here, it's like they love Russia's corrupt government.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@BritishFailedAesthetic I see alot of people still swallowing cold war brainwashing who dutifully never question anything they are told.

BritishFailedAesthetic · M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I find it bizarre you support someone who imprisons LGBT people.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@BritishFailedAesthetic Virtue signaling is the only response you have?

And it is cute how you think homophobia doesn't exist in Britain.

BritishFailedAesthetic · M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Oh come off it, they have the same rights as everyone else!

BritishFailedAesthetic · M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Obviously there is and there is everywhere but it's not like they're imprisoned, like in Russia who you support.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@BritishFailedAesthetic Funny. Those anti gay laws in Russia were pushed by the Christian orthodox Church. The people you seem to be so fond of.

And if you bother looking into the actual laws and not just believe whatever your tele tells you you will realize that it is mostly fines not jail. But either way that is your camp who made that happen.

Not that any of this is remotely relevant.

BritishFailedAesthetic · M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Patriarch SHILL is just a puppet for Putin.

But I guess it is consistent for someone who wishes the USSR was still around to support the slaughter of civilians.

The USSR was a Colonialist power itself, no?

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@BritishFailedAesthetic Convenient how you throw your camp under the bus the minute it is convenient. This has nothing to do with Putin.

And yeah no. Modern Russia and the USSR are not the same thing.

And slaughtering civilians is something the British Empire spent hundreds of years doing so glass houses and all that.

And no. The Russian Empire before it...sure.

BritishFailedAesthetic · M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow The Russian Empire and USSR.

Also it seems strange that a Patriarch of a Church would support a law forbidding evangelism.

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