yeah, laura, the penal colonies and the entire incarceration system in russia extremely dangerous, to all human life. it s most comparable to the gulag. you know, sort of like gulag-lite. and i think any russian who survives that type of incarceration is fortunate, but an american, you know, who doesn t have the language skills necessarily, who doesn t understand the system as well, and certainly because they re an american, not a good time to be incarcerated in russia, it s not going to be good. i don t know how many people, you know, have died from tuberculosis, for example, other com communicable diseases in these prisons. it s downright horrible. and i have some sound from trevor reid, who was released earlier this year, he had this to say about why this particular person, brittney griner, why this might be all the more harsh. anyone who is in a forced labor camp in russia is
what will this look like? yeah, laura, the penal colonies and the entire incarceration system in russia is extremely dangerous to all human life. it s most comparable to the gulag. sort of like gulag light. and i think any russian who survives that type of incarceration is fortunate, but an american, you know, who doesn t have the language skills necessarily, who doesn t understand the system as well, and certainly because they re an american, not a good time to be incarcerated in russia, it s not going to be good. i don t know how many people, you know, have died from tuberculosis, for example, other communicable diseases in these prisons. it s downright horrible. and i have some sound from trevor reed, who you know was obviously released earlier this year. he had this to say about why this particular person, brittney griner, why this might be all the more harsh. anyone who is in a forced labor camp in russia is obviously, you know, facing
but the russians want him home because it ties to intelligence. you think he would want to strike a deal. they don t care about their people like we care about ours. they may try to add another name to the list just to drag out negotiations and punish the biden administration. one of the things i was struck by with the sentencing, brittney griner was sentenced to nine years and she will serve that time in a penal colony and not a regular prison. do you think that s part of a leverage play here? and can you give a sense of what conditions would be like at a place like that? pretty grim. this isn t a soviet-era gulag. but it s not a happy place. when i was a state official in russia, i went to russian prisons at time, to check on the welfare of americans. these are not happy places. i don t think she will spend nine years there. but nevertheless, i don t think she will be singled out for mistreatment, given her celebrity status.
patients. that s not about abortions. that s about arthritis, crohn s disease, as my patient has, it s about psoriasis. the texas gulag just light show did not, when they drafted the law, do any research on what else might methotrexate be used for besides an abortion? because the first thing you see when you do google search is, mother trackside for rheumatoid arthritis. it s used to treat a lot of people. it s an immune suppressant, and it works very effectively for those patients. and now, they re gonna suffer. doctors aren t gonna be able to practice medicine correctly, and patients are gonna be in pain and suffering because of that law. let me ask sarah, because you re one of the patients who have had this prescribed. when you went to the pharmacist to get it filled, what happened? so, i, luckily, was successful in refilling my prescription, but that wasn t a
she has been hailed as a hero for her work on the front lines with ukrainian troops and civilians. she was released after 90 days in captivity in conditions that she described as a gulag. in this russian propaganda film yulia paievska is marched, hooded and handcuffed into a dark interrogation room, the hood yakd off, harsh light blinding her. paievska who was youk nan goes by the tick name taira and is a famous medic known across ukraine. until very recently she was a prisoner of war held by russian, pro russian forces made to appear in the propaganda film which access her of harvesting organs and compares her to hitler. after three months in cap tifl taira who we met today with her husband was freed in a prisoner exchange, but in her first sit down interview since then it s