The tourist country Russia
Russia has many magnificent tourist attractions like the Trans-Siberian Railway, Mount Elbrus, the Valley of Geysers, Kizhi Island, St Sophia Cathedral, Lake Baikal, Suzdal, Moscow Kremlin, Hermitage Museum, Saint Basil’s Cathedral, Red Square, St Petersburg, Derbent, Yekaterinburg, Sochi, Pskov, Kazan, Novgorod Veliky, Altai mountains, Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, Lenin’s Mausoleum, Aleksander Nevsky Lavra, the Peter and Paul Fortress, Stalingrad Battlefield, Church of the Ascension, Gulag 36 and the Izborsk Fortress.
Russia has also many secrets that very few tourists know about. Before you decide to visit Russia as a tourist, please take a moment to find out whether this is a country whose economy and values you want to support. They way innocent and defenseless beings are treated tells a lot about a society. These news stories give you some information on how animals are treated in Russia.
Please note that many of the images in the articles are very graphic.
Russia has also many secrets that very few tourists know about. Before you decide to visit Russia as a tourist, please take a moment to find out whether this is a country whose economy and values you want to support. They way innocent and defenseless beings are treated tells a lot about a society. These news stories give you some information on how animals are treated in Russia.
Please note that many of the images in the articles are very graphic.
NEWS FROM RUSSIA
There is no animal welfare legislation in Russia (source: Lapa)
Pets in Russia are normally not sterilised, vaccinated or de-wormed. Pet breeding is is not regulated, which causes overpopulation and diseases. Tens of thousands of pets are abandoned in Russia every year and they suffer and die in the most horrific ways. Stray animals are typically mass-killed by poisoning or other horrific methods. The situation in the municipal shelters is horrific - thousands of dogs die from neglect and starvation. In Russia cats are typically left to die in the basements of apartment blocks. Zoo animals are kept in appalling conditions and wild animals are used in circuses where they are tortured to make them perform tricks. When they are not performing they are kept in small cages often without daylight. Farm animals are subjected to daily cruelty. Countless animals are skinned alive in Russia for their skin and fur. Poaching of protected animals is common.
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6 February 2015, Daily Mail
Sochi restaurant owner kept two bears locked up in a small fithy cage for 20 years. The restaurant guests were allowed to give alcohol and junk food to the animals as part of the macabre spectacle. The owner charged tourists for taking fotos of the animals. The bears are severely ill and alcoholics and one of them has also gone blind because of motorists deliberately pointing the headlights on the bears to cause them distress.
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21 January 2015, The Moscow Times
Numerous dead dogs found in various cities of Russia after pup-poisoning campaign was announced, among these Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Murmansk, Yaroslavl, St. Petersburg and Vladivostok.
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14 January 2015, The Telegraph
Internet-based vigilantes, so-called dog hunters poison both stray animals and family pets in response to what they consider to be a threat to children.
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Sochi restaurant owner kept two bears locked up in a small fithy cage for 20 years. The restaurant guests were allowed to give alcohol and junk food to the animals as part of the macabre spectacle. The owner charged tourists for taking fotos of the animals. The bears are severely ill and alcoholics and one of them has also gone blind because of motorists deliberately pointing the headlights on the bears to cause them distress.
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21 January 2015, The Moscow Times
Numerous dead dogs found in various cities of Russia after pup-poisoning campaign was announced, among these Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Murmansk, Yaroslavl, St. Petersburg and Vladivostok.
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14 January 2015, The Telegraph
Internet-based vigilantes, so-called dog hunters poison both stray animals and family pets in response to what they consider to be a threat to children.
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5 February 2014, CNN
Like many other Russian cities, there are thousands of stray dogs in the Olympic City of Sochi. The authorities are exterminating the stray dogs by poisoning them, which is a horrifically slow, painful and agonising death.
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Like many other Russian cities, there are thousands of stray dogs in the Olympic City of Sochi. The authorities are exterminating the stray dogs by poisoning them, which is a horrifically slow, painful and agonising death.
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9 February 2007, The New York Times
The horrifically cruel ”sport” of dog fighting is allowed in many parts of Russia.
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The horrifically cruel ”sport” of dog fighting is allowed in many parts of Russia.
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