But it is forbidden to talk about Russian issues. Anyone who dares gets sued, arrested, tortured or killed.
In the "US empire", talking about issues is called whistleblowing, and you also get sued, arrested, tortured.
whistleblowing is a fairly special kind of "talking about issues". Most cases of "talking about issues" in the west are not silenced by suing/arresting/torturing/killing but by other means (mostly, by making sure those messages stay confined to marginal circles, so if some of them ever reach a wider audience, they sound much too outlandish to have any credibility). The confinement happens mostly by drowning the signal.
Stefan