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"en.20141023.7.4-043-000"2
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"Madam President, the Russian Justice Ministry’s request to have the human and civil rights organisation Memorial closed down reflects just about all that is wrong with President Putin’s Russia. Memorial works to promote democracy, the rule of law, human rights and civil society activism – all principles that are being eroded currently in Russia. On a more symbolic level, it works to inform the public of Russia’s true history, exposing the terrible atrocities committed during the Stalinist Soviet era – a history that the political establishment more usually today glosses over and vaunts as a guiding light for the future of Russia.
As Ukraine moves closer to parliamentary elections, we see the chaos that reigns across the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as a result of the practical implementation of that kind of dogma. Memorial is just one organisation in Russia, but iconically it represents the Russia that should be and its closure is extremely worrying to us in this House.
Russia has, with China and Saudi Arabia, recently drafted proposals to the ITU to give control of the Internet to national governments and away from ICANN as part of a crackdown on Net freedom. Fortunately the USA, a lover of freedom, is blocking this and rightly so as the Net, for all its faults, remains a forum for free expression by the victims of authoritarian regimes globally."@en1
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