RU - Putin foes, feminist punk band Pussy Riot, jailed for 6 months after protest

[Public_Hysteria]

The whole story of the "message" is suspect. What better, more heavy-handed, way to attempt to discredit a movement than have a little something along this line "discovered" at a double-murder scene.

Indeed. Quite convenient for the ROC, in my opinion.

 

[wfgodot]

Indeed. Quite convenient for the ROC, in my opinion.

Especially convenient, in terms of attempting to discredit Pussy Riot's defenders internationally, was that the "message" was written in English.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/30/article-2195862-14C06D24000005DC-514_634x485.jpg

 

[jjenny]

Especially convenient, in terms of attempting to discredit Pussy Riot's defenders internationally, was that the "message" was written in English.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/30/article-2195862-14C06D24000005DC-514_634x485.jpg

Many Russians study English in school. It's not exactly a sophisticated message.

 

[wfgodot]

Many Russians study English in school. It's not exactly a sophisticated message.

Any fool could have written those three words, I agree, which makes it very easy for Putin's FSB to have done.

And btw, English is a difficult language to learn, unlike, say, various of the Romance languages.

 

[jjenny]

I am pretty sure Putin and FSB have better things to do than write messages on a double murder scene.

 

[jjenny]

An arrest has been made.

"The Committee said Danilevsky had convinced the woman to take out a loan to repay his debts, and promised to marry her. Police had found the knife used to stab the women to death and disfigure their faces and bodies, it said."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/0...ussy-riot-ties/?test=latestnews#ixzz25ATA4If0

 

[LadyL]

Kremlin-friendly media and Orthodox Church clerics had seized upon the alleged link between the murder and the band to lambast the artists and their supporters, and compared them to mass murderer Charles Manson, whose followers used the blood of victims to write on the walls of their houses.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/0...ussy-riot-ties/?test=latestnews#ixzz25B4HiXxZ



well, looks like they were all wrong - wonder if anyone will apologize for the 'blood on their hands' comments

 

[wishuwerehere]

A Rioter’s Prayer – Echo of Moscow Interviews Yekaterina Samutsevich

http://99getsmart.com/?p=5356

On October 10, 2012, an appellate court in Moscow announced the conditional release of Pussy Riot’s Yekaterina Samutsevich, the punk rock dissident imprisoned alongside band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina for charges of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.”
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Two days after her release, Katya gave an interview to the Russian radio station Echo of Moscow, a bastion of independent journalism increasingly coming under the control of Gazprom Media, a subsidiary of the partly state-owned natural gas company. Fielding the questions of some skeptical Russian listeners, Katya discusses Putin’s fueling of national resentments, the tactics of protest, and the future of Pussy Riot.
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Yekaterina Samutsevich: Above all to those who still have the idea that our action was aimed at religious beliefs: it isn’t true. We didn’t want to injure anyone. We respect all religions and believers. Our action was purely political. We tried to draw attention to issues in society, to the issue of the connection between the power of the Orthodox Church and the power of the State. I think that we were successful. Society is now aware of the problem, and the rest of the world is too. The trial revealed power’s disproportionate reaction. It showed that our government lacks the wisdom to respond in a decent manner.

Complete interview at link.

 

[wfgodot]

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