I will note, however, that Russia is hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics. Traditionally, hosting the Olympics has been a pretty good catalyst for getting the world to bring your country under a bit of scrutiny. If the Olympics were being held in Dubai, then the only reason we wouldn't be hearing about how they treat gays would be all of the screaming the plethora of other social issues plaguing the UAE.
As for:
>I personally see no problem with how other nations manage their internal affairs, as long as they keep to themselves.
If your neighbor were murdering women in his basement, would you say "Well, that's just his business really. I should keep to myself and not bother him"?
I agree that we would _hear_ from it, and that we should do more than talk of it, but will we? We'll know that ten years from now (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup). Yes, that's not the Olympics and not the UAE, but I think the case is similar enough for this discussion.
I am a pessimistic about that; we had a World Cup under Videla in Argentinia, too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_FIFA_World_Cup#Controversy...)
Really?