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[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place..." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways..." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation..." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe." ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"" ]

[ "LOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌", ">\n\nThem being members is like letting Al Capone ride shotgun with Elliot Ness.", ">\n\nI didn’t know they were fighting corruption.", ">\n\nShow them to the door 🚪", ">\n\nTime to jon the war on corruption on the side of corruption", ">\n\nBye Felicakov.", ">\n\nHahahahaha", ">\n\nThis is an enormous win, with Russia out, corruption is reduced by 80%!", ">\n\nToo low standards for Russia.", ">\n\nBruh, is this comedy?", ">\n\nAnd in other news, House Republicans want to undermine the Office of Congressional Ethics. By their deeds you will know them.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow's participation in the Council of Europe.\nThe Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on the promotion of democracy and human rights, suspended Russia's participation in March, 2022, shortly after Russia launched what it calls a \"Special military operation\" in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Russia^#1 Council^#2 Europe^#3 Convention^#4 corruption^#5", ">\n\nOh no, it was so effective.\nActually, given release like the Panama Papers, Russia was probably the only voice at the table pointing out blatant western corruption. The Swiss didn't earn their reputation by refusing to hide money for warlords and criminals after all.", ">\n\nWell the organisations success rate is going to jump massively. Im not even sure Russia understands what isnt corrupt anymore. The whole country is cancer.", ">\n\nBecause he doesn’t have trump anymore to do his bidding", ">\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if they were members just to get tips and tip-offs.", ">\n\nWhat a joke ,Russia is corrupt.Should never have been a member", ">\n\nWell yeah, if there was a convention on fighting balding white Dutch guys, I wouldn't show up either.", ">\n\nWell, they have no business being there in the first place...", ">\n\nGotta love all these conventions and councils that provide daily dosage of irony. And here come some Redditors defending it in the name of \"soft power, opportunity for dialogue, constructivism, etc.\". These are nothing but PR ...human rights council with Saudi Arabia and Women's council with Iran. Laughable.", ">\n\nThat's like saying you're happy to pull out after your wife's in labour.", ">\n\nBut who will stand up ~~to~~ for corruption once they're gone?!", ">\n\nGiven how corruption has impacted the war in Ukraine, perhaps this is not a bad thing... ;p", ">\n\nOK. Bye now. Don't come back ya hear?", ">\n\nI can almost hear a voice going, \"Yes, let your anger flow through you... embrace the Dark Side!\"", ">\n\nIt's getting really hard to pretend Russia is interested in fighting corruption. By this point everyone knows Russia bribes every extreme right wing political party in the world.", ">\n\nYea, i mean, why punch yourself in the face, that makes no sense.", ">\n\nThat is the wrong withdrawal you silly Russians.", ">\n\nIt's the least corrupt thing to do.", ">\n\nWhen you realize you are not fooling anybody.", ">\n\nSo they are finally going to stop pretending that corruption is something they want to get rid of?", ">\n\nRussia is a nation built on corruption, Mafia hits and cronyism. They were never fooling anyone.", ">\n\nWTF are they doing in it other than as an example why corruption is a bad thing?", ">\n\nahahaha, ya don't say?", ">\n\nLOL and when were they in??", ">\n\nEvery country us highly corrupted not only the ones you don't like", ">\n\nYes, every country is corrupt. But also corrupt to a vastly different extent.\nNow Russia is highly corrupt and I don’t like it, yet one has nothing to do with the other.\nI also don’t particularly like Luxembourg, yet it is one of the least corrupt countries.\nThe whole of Northern America and Central Europe aren’t extremely corrupt. This has to do with prosperity, a strong civil society and strong institutions.\nAlso Singapore, Hongkong, Japan and Australia are doing well, it’s not just N. America and Europe.\nIt also doesn’t change, that Russia is a corrupt shithole.\nEdit: while corruption is hard to trace, as it takes place in secrecy, there are some approximate measurements, maybe take a look here.", ">\n\nAmerica not corrupt wut mate", ">\n\nIt is, so much worse than the top countries like Denmark etc, yet so much less worse than Russia. But ofc you are right, it’s bad.", ">\n\nWas Ruzzia fighting for or against corruption?", ">\n\nDo you mean adjective?", ">\n\nFuck. Ya, that one. Grade school was a long time ago.", ">\n\nYou used poor sentence structure that doesn't make sense by itself. If you were trying to say \"Russians are Nazis who fight\" or \"Russia is a Nazi country that fights\", say that. Russia [singular noun] is [singular verb] fighting [adjective?] Nazis [plural noun] doesn't make sense because it equates a singular noun to a plural noun. You are the one who needs an English lesson, kid.", ">\n\nBlessed are the grammar nazis, for they shall inherit nothing of significant value.", ">\n\nI'm just calling you out for trying to call someone else out when you were actually wrong. Also, you replied to the comment twice with 2 fairly different replies which leads me to believe that you were intending to swap to your alternate account for one of them to pretend that others thought you were correct. Which is a douche move.", ">\n\nYou called me out on a comment admitting that grade school was a long time ago. In your opinion was that not a douche move?\nAlso, calling out a douche for having two accounts when that douche only has one account is supercalifragilisticexpealidouchoius. Downvote this one and crawl back under your rock.", ">\n\nWhoops, I misread your initial comment as you saying it has been a while since they went to grade school. That's on me. Also, double commenting on something usually means that one it trying to make a false narrative of public support. If that was not your purpose, that is also my misinterpretation. I was also going to apologize for calling you a douche but telling me to \"crawl back under your rock\" just confirmed that I was right. Have a good day.", ">\n\nI appreciate your honesty. \nI also appreciate the work that you do in removing that 'not so fresh feeling.' I apologize for telling you to crawl back under your rock, as it's abundantly clear you spend most of your time dribbling down a leg and into a shoe. \nYou have a great day as well!", ">\n\nCountry That Has Never Done Something Threatens To Stop Doing It.", ">\n\nI don’t know why Russia bothers with any convention, they literally respect no rules. I think it’s just a show for the idiotic domestic audience that eat whatever shit Putin feeds them.", ">\n\nI'm sure it also pleased Putin to think he was actually a part of international affairs; that Russia was palling around with the big boys, riding their coattails to avoid being called a third-world country.\nEvery group they're kicked out of or quit is another blow to his ego.\n\"I didn't want to be in your stupid group anyway! *sobs*\"", ">\n\nI mean four years ago he was openly pulling the US's strings, regardless of how, Trump was bending the knee to him. Now Russia has been crippled, humiliated, and its only real leverage is its supposedly functional nuclear arsenal.", ">\n\nCountries like Russia is why they have a European Convention on Fighting Corruption.", ">\n\nEeehhhh....Even with Russia, I think I can think of a few countries that are worse in that particular regard.", ">\n\nThat kinda sounds like you don’t understand just how ingrained corruption is within Russia.\nA columbian cartel almost managed to buy a Foxtrot-class submarine from Russia, after buying military helicopters that were delivered on a Russian military cargo plane. The only reason the sale didn’t complete is because the Russian middleman pocketed the money and disappeared.", ">\n\nIs there a link for that story? I’d love to read up on this", ">\n\nThanks!", ">\n\nWithdraw from the entire world you cunts.", ">\n\nCount down to some moron that says something to the effect of \"No, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.\"", ">\n\nNo, we need to keep Russia involved in international relations and can't let them be humiliated or they will become isolated and dangerous.", ">\n\nThe fact that you have the same profile picture as the person you responded to made me think they just responded to themselves 🤣🤣🤣", ">\n\n\nRussia is gearing up to end its participation in the European Convention on fighting corruption in response to the decision to restrict Moscow’s participation in the Council of Europe (CoE).\nOn Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma — the lower house of the Russian Parliament — to denounce the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption signed in the city of Strasbourg on January 27, 1999.\n\n...\n\nRussia ceased to be a Party to the European Convention on Human Rights on 16 September 2022.\n\n...\n\nThe Council of Europe brings together 47 European countries and was created to promote democracy, protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law in Europe. Russia was a member of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 2022.", ">\n\nRussia is getting ready to steal some major shit.", ">\n\nBecause land and children don't count as major yet?", ">\n\nThey decided to stop fighting corruption because corruption won.", ">\n\nHa, what? Russia was part of a fighting corruption convention. Fuck me. Is this a joke.", ">\n\nMaybe this Benjamin will convince you to not withdraw", ">\n\nGod damn it, you fucking genius.", ">\n\nWhy would they want to fight their primary activity?", ">\n\nFair enough. Their membership has clearly not helped them fight corruption.", ">\n\nDoes this feel a little bit like my teenager threatening to not clean up his room, normally at the end of a fight he is loosing just before he slams the door with a petulant \"Fine, but if you think I am cleaning MY room, think again\". My teenager has never cleaned their own room willingly without the shotgun of no internet being held to their head. Kind of like Russia has never actually cleaned up corruption without some leverage being applied.", ">\n\nMy daughter, starting around age 9 or so, latched onto the KonMarie ethos like she was born for it. She's since maintained her room in a minimalist and tidier state than I ever kept any living space of my own my entire life. She also started doing her own laundry starting at age 11, with no prompting from anyone.", ">\n\n\nRussia Ready to Withdraw from European Convention on Fighting Corruption\n\nCorruption won the battle in Russia.", ">\n\n(...), surprising nobody", ">\n\nSo yeah anyways...", ">\n\nWell... I would say this means Russia is just condoning corruption now. But in Oppositeland, every action should be passed through a logical NOT filter before interpretation...", ">\n\nWere they ever really there?", ">\n\nHA HA HAHAHHAAAAA...\nRussian officials should put together a comedy tour.", ">\n\nI guess they felt that they were corrupt enough already.", ">\n\n“I’d like to congratulate corruption for their victory in the war against corruption.” - pootin, probably", ">\n\nWithdraw your attitude", ">\n\nBuh bye.", ">\n\nCool! - everyone else", ">\n\nBut then the convention won't have a lab rate.", ">\n\nThey also withdrew from the convention on high ranking officials falling off balconies as well ,Im sensing a pattern", ">\n\nCorrupt country leaves thing against corruption", ">\n\nHow much would they stand to lose if they did this?\nEdit. How much personally would the individuals who are on this committee lose by not being on it anymore?", ">\n\nThis is kinda like when I keep losing so I throw the Playstation controller on the ground and quit.", ">\n\nDon't fight the problem, be the problem!", ">\n\nHeadline: Putin Pulls Out", ">\n\n\"We'll be more corrupt than ever! That'll show them!\"", ">\n\nWell since corruption = governance in Russia, its a survival move", ">\n\nFox threatens to withdraw from henhouse security commission.", ">\n\nMan those first half of the headline got me excited. What a rollercoaster of emotions that headline brought me.", ">\n\nThe move won‘t change anything. Status quo before move equals status quo past the move.", ">\n\nTo be fair, few countries have better exemplified the need to fight government corruption, if only to have a functioning army. \nThen there's Russia encouraging investment in alternative energy sources, incentivizing a better coordinated EU, illustrating the strength of democracy and open societies, proving the need to diversify sources of fertilizers to prevent famines...\nOnly the US is close, with it's successful decades long PR campaign in defense of universal health care.", ">\n\n\"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not corrupt, Scholz. I am the corruption! A guy opens his door and is bribed and you think that of me? No. I am the one who bribes!\"", ">\n\nProbably tired of being the show and tell example.", ">\n\nConflict of interests", ">\n\nNo surprise their. Russia has always been more on the “supply” side of corruption.", ">\n\nThe Story Of The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing", ">\n\nLet them go, Europe.", ">\n\nRandom small European nation \" maybe only steal 50% of your people's money\"\nRussia \"REEEEEEE!!!!\"", ">\n\n🤣🤣🤣 joke of the year! \nIf russia can just go ahead and withdraw from Earth, it'll be far more effective. 👌" ]