On March 20, the U.S. State Department released its 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, covering 198 countries and territories.
The report said Russia “has a highly centralized, authoritarian political system dominated by President Vladimir Putin.”
It said civil liberties in Russia are routinely violated. Freedom of expression, assembly and association are severely suppressed, while media and internet freedoms are curtailed.
Russian citizens are unable “to change their government peacefully through free and fair elections,” the report stated.
The Russian Embassy in the U.S. “categorically” rejected the State Department report’s findings, calling them “far-fetched and out of touch with reality”:
“We condemn approaches according to which the ‘quality of democracy’ is assessed based on Western standards. Russia has been consistently following the democratic path, taking into account its own historical experience and traditions.”
That is false.
www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-russia-falsely-claims-it-s-following-democratic-path/7016469.html
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