I’m characterizing the separation as asylum for the entire oblast of Odessa.
Russia is a semi-presidential republic like France and Portugal. It’s not typically classified as a “liberal democracy” simply due to racism IMO[1]—although I’ll grant that it’s probably more homophobic than those two.
Edit: In truth, I think “liberal democracy” is a useless and chauvinist term. I used it to be provocative.
For example, the BBC is free to operate in Russia, but RT is not free to operate in the UK. Despite this, the UK is near the top of the “press freedumb” chart, and Russia is near the bottom, because Russians are mean and scary. ↩︎
I’m characterizing the separation as asylum for the entire oblast of Odessa.
Russia is a semi-presidential republic like France and Portugal. It’s not typically classified as a “liberal democracy” simply due to racism IMO[1]—although I’ll grant that it’s probably more homophobic than those two.
Edit: In truth, I think “liberal democracy” is a useless and chauvinist term. I used it to be provocative.
For example, the BBC is free to operate in Russia, but RT is not free to operate in the UK. Despite this, the UK is near the top of the “press freedumb” chart, and Russia is near the bottom, because Russians are mean and scary. ↩︎