Wednesday, April 06, 2005
The Best of Pravda
This story is not so good news.
So what do you do when you are walking down the lane by the river and a bear goes floating by on a piece of ice? Why, call the bear's drunken owner that let him lose to begin with, of course.
So, you thought we lived in a litigious society? Check this out.
New law will probably give Americans no chance of adopting Russian orphansAmericans that wish to adopt are increasingly going overseas to do so becasue it is getting harder and harder to do so at home. So this story is sad for portentially adoptive parents. And, while I know Russia is suffering a "demographic disintegration," do they really want to deny their most unfortunate a change at a better life?
So what do you do when you are walking down the lane by the river and a bear goes floating by on a piece of ice? Why, call the bear's drunken owner that let him lose to begin with, of course.
So, you thought we lived in a litigious society? Check this out.
One of Moscow's district courts starts hearing the lawsuit, which Muscovite Igor Smykov filed against the Ren TV Russian television company almost three years ago. The lawsuit was filed on the allegation that "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy" cartoons, which the company regularly airs, bring psychological harm to children and their parents. The claimant demands the TV company should exclude the above-mentioned cartoons from its schedule and pay 300,000 rubles of moral damage compensation. Igor Smykov believes that the two cartoon series propagandize violence, brutality, drugs and the cult of sex.My question is...If we could bring lawsuits like that in this country, would there be any television left?
