But look how Putin abuses that “common” space: barbaric treatment of Chechens, the businessmen Mikhail Khodorkovsky imprisoned, foreign NGO’s hounded, a co-leader of last year’s Orange Revolution, Yuliya Tymoshenko, indicted by Russian military prosecutors on trumped-up charges. If Europeans are serious about their common space for human rights and freedoms, they must recognize that those values are not shared by the calculating placemen of Putin’s Kremlin.
但是，看看普京如何滥用这一“共同”领域的吧。野蛮对待车臣人，将科多尔科夫斯基投入监牢，外国非政府组织遭到围剿，去年乌克兰“橙色革命”的副领导人季莫申科则被俄罗斯军队检察官以捏造的罪名起诉。如果欧洲人对他们的人权和自由的共同领域郑重其事，那么他们就必须承认，普京的克里姆林宫里狡猾的禄虫们并不认同这些价值观。