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Over 50 detained at Pussy Riot courthouse demo (PHOTOS)
Published: 17 August, 2012, 22:57
Edited: 18 August, 2012, 03:03
Police detain a Pussy Riot supporter outside the Khamovnichesky Court (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)
More than 50 of Pussy Riot's supporters and detractors have been detained outside the Moscow court where three members of the punk rock collective were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism and inciting religious hatred.
Hundreds of people, many clad in Pussy Riot T-shirts, had packed onto a narrow street outside of the Khamovnichesky Court as the verdict was being handed down. Supporters cried "shame" and "Putin scum" upon hearing the verdict, while opponents held religious icons and sang prayers.
Police said those taken into custody had committed various acts in violation of public order. A source within the police station where the detainees were taken said some would get off with a warning, while others would be charged with unspecified administrative offenses.
Opposition leaders Gary Kasparov and Sergey Udaltsov were also taken into custody outside the court.
Kasparov told the TASS news agency by phone that he had been slightly roughed up, but would not need medical assistance as he was "able to bear it.” Police, however, accused Kasparov of biting an officer while he remanded the former world chess champion into custody. The officer was reportedly forced to go to hospital for treatment and police say they are looking into the incident. Kasparov called the accusation “nonsense.”
Police detain Left Front leader Sergey Udaltsov at a rally in support of punk group Pussy Riot (RIA Novosti / Aleksandr Utkin)
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Police detain former world chess champion and Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov (RIA Novosti / Andrey Smirnov)
Left Front leader Udaltsov said he had been accused of organizing an unsanctioned rally in front of the Khamovnichesky Court and of blocking the flow of traffic. He is to appear in court on August 23, and if found guilty, could be fined up to $1,000.
Following a highly charged trial that has split Russian public opinion down the middle and galvanized international attention, the judge presiding over the trial said Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich had shown flagrant disregard for church parishioners and the fundamentals of the Orthodox faith. The judge said they consciously knew their actions would be an affront to Orthodox believers, making the guerrila performance an act of religious hatred.
The women were sentenced to two years in a medium-security prison minus time served, a year shy of the sentence prosecutors were gunning for. Defense lawyer Nikolay Polozov said the verdict was illegal as it had been marred by numerous procedural violations. While the defense team will have 10 days to appeal the decision, Poloznov said he might appeal to the European Court of Human Rights rather than the Supreme Court or the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.
The trio were first arrested in March after performing a politically charged "punk prayer" in Russia's main Orthodox Cathedral, located in the heart of Moscow. They vehemently denied being motivated by religious hatred, with Alyokhina, one of the convicts, saying the trial embodied a travesty of justice.
A police officer pursues a Pussy Riot supporter on a chain-link security fence outside the courthouse (RIA Novosti / Ilya Pitalev)
Blogger Aleksey Navalny outside Moscow′s Khamovnichesky Court (RIA Novosti / Ilya Pitalev)
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RIA Novosti / Vladimir Astapkovich
An Orthodox priest at a rally in support of the indictment of Pussy Riot members(RIA Novosti / Ilya Pitalev)
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Reuters / Sergei Karpukhin
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Jeff wrote:On the day of sentencing, a member of Femen cuts down a cross in Kiev in solidarity.
Canadian_watcher wrote:I dunno 'bout this whole thing.
the balaclavas & the 24 7 coverage add up to no good in my books.
something stinks.
Canadian_watcher wrote:I dunno 'bout this whole thing.
the balaclavas & the 24 7 coverage add up to no good in my books.
something stinks.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Who or What is Russia's "Pussy Riot?"
by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report | August 6, 2012
Tasteless PR Stunt the Work of the US State Department
The Guardian is absolutely correct when they call the "Pussy Riot" proceedings a "show trial." However, they are wrong in claiming that the showmanship is the work of the Russian Federation. Instead, it is showmanship put on by the Western media and the US State Department's vast network of faux-NGOs. . . .
According to the Guardian, the defense "tried to call 13 witness, including opposition leader Alexey Navalny." Navalny, of course, is a longtime operative receiving both political and financial support from the West in efforts to undermine the Russian government and bring back the days of Wall Street and London's unhindered plundering that marked the 1990's.
Alexey NavalnyMayDay wrote:http://rt.com/news/50-detained-pussy-riot-956/
Blogger Aleksey Navalny outside Moscow′s Khamovnichesky Court (RIA Novosti / Ilya Pitalev)
Alexey Navalny was a Yale World Fellow, and his profile states:
"Navalny spearheads legal challenges on behalf of minority shareholders in large Russian companies, including Gazprom, Bank VTB, Sberbank, Rosneft, Transneft, and Surgutneftegaz, through the Union of Minority Shareholders. He has successfully forced companies to disclose more information to their shareholders and has sued individual managers at several major corporations for allegedly corrupt practices. Navalny is also co-founder of the Democratic Alternative movement and was vice-chairman of the Moscow branch of the political party YABLOKO. In 2010, he launched RosPil, a public project funded by unprecedented fundraising in Russia. In 2011, Navalny started RosYama, which combats fraud in the road construction sector."
The Democratic Alternative, also written DA!, is indeed a National Endowment for Democracy fund recipient, meaning that Alexey Navalny is an agent of US-funded sedition. And despite posing as a champion for "transparency," Navalny is willfully hiding this from his followers. The US State Department itself reveals this as they list "youth movements" operating in Russia:
"DA!: Mariya Gaydar, daughter of former Prime Minister Yegor Gaydar, leads DA! (Democratic Alternative). She is ardent in her promotion of democracy, but realistic about the obstacles she faces. Gaydar said that DA! is focused on non-partisan activities designed to raise political awareness. She has received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, a fact she does not publicize for fear of appearing compromised by an American connection."
Navalny was involved directly in founding a movement funded by the US government and to this day has the very people who funded DA! defending him throughout Western media. The mention of co-founder Mariya Gaydar is also revealing, as she has long collaborated, and occasionally has been arrested with, Ilya Yashin, yet another leader of a NED-funded Russian "activist" opposition group.
Photo: Alexei Navalny, Yale World Fellow and co-founder of US National Endowment for Democracy Da! or "Democratic Alternative/Yes in Russian." It is yet another Otpor-esque organization courtesy of the United States government and willful traitors to their motherland.
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If "Pussy Riot's" defense is calling up a documented agent of Western interests as a "witness," one wonders under what context and to what degree Navalny, and by consequence, the National Endowment for Democracy, is involved with the defendants. Navalny admits that he is "acquainted" with one of the band members, but was not actually a "witness," and rather would have testified in order to "defend law and justice."
Clearly then, the defense's attempts to include him in the trial were politically motivated, having nothing to do with either law or justice, and serves simply as a means to link "Pussy Riot" to the US State Department's subversive opposition, many of whose leaders were caught filing into the US Embassy in Moscow earlier this year.
Also telling, is that Oksana Chelysheva - board member of the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum and a steering committee member of the NED, convicted criminal George Soros Open Society-funded FIDH, Open Society, Ford Foundation, Sigrid Rausing Trust-funded Front Line Defenders, and US State Department-run Amnesty International-affiliated EU-Russia Civil Society Forum - is heading "Pussy Riot's" support campaign.
Images: "Pussy Riot's" support campaign is spearheaded by Oksana Chelysheva of the US State Department-funded "Russian-Chechen Friendship Society," a clearing house for Chechen terrorist propaganda. Along with US State Department-subsidized Alexey Navalny and the West's media outlets on their side, the hooligan anti-establishment "punk rockers" now on trial in Moscow have a decidedly "establishment" backing. (click images to enlarge)
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Chelysheva was also "Deputy Executive Director" of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, fully funded by the US State Department via the National Endowment for Democracy. The "Friendship Society" was essentially a public relations front of Al Qaeda-aligned Chechen terrorists ravaging Russia's Caucasus region - a plot offered new relevance as the US, NATO, and Gulf States openly support similar groups of terrorists now ravaging Syria. The "Friendship Society" served a similar function to the now discredited "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights." . . .
Helping to push down on this political lever are propaganda outfits like the Guardian, portraying the trial as a case of liberal Russian opposition groups fighting against a judicial throwback to the Soviet Union. In reality, it is another Wall Street-London production in the same vein as Serbia's US-funded Otpor movement, the Kony 2012 fraud and the US-engineered "Arab Spring."
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lupercal wrote:Sunday, August 5, 2012
Who or What is Russia's "Pussy Riot?"
by Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report | August 6, 2012
Tasteless PR Stunt the Work of the US State Department
The Guardian is absolutely correct when they call the "Pussy Riot" proceedings a "show trial." However, they are wrong in claiming that the showmanship is the work of the Russian Federation. Instead, it is showmanship put on by the Western media and the US State Department's vast network of faux-NGOs. . . .
According to the Guardian, the defense "tried to call 13 witness, including opposition leader Alexey Navalny." Navalny, of course, is a longtime operative receiving both political and financial support from the West in efforts to undermine the Russian government and bring back the days of Wall Street and London's unhindered plundering that marked the 1990's.
Alexey Navalny
If "Pussy Riot's" defense is calling up a documented agent of Western interests as a "witness," one wonders under what context and to what degree Navalny, and by consequence, the National Endowment for Democracy, is involved with the defendants.
Navalny admits that he is "acquainted" with one of the band members, but was not actually a "witness," and rather would have testified in order to "defend law and justice."
a documented agent of Western interests as a "witness"?
Clearly then, the defense's attempts to include him in the trial were politically motivated, having nothing to do with either law or justice, and serves simply as a means to link "Pussy Riot" to the US State Department's subversive opposition, many of whose leaders were caught filing into the US Embassy in Moscow earlier this year.
Also telling, is that Oksana Chelysheva - board member of the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum and a steering committee member of the NED, convicted criminal George Soros Open Society-funded FIDH, Open Society, Ford Foundation, Sigrid Rausing Trust-funded Front Line Defenders, and US State Department-run Amnesty International-affiliated EU-Russia Civil Society Forum - is heading "Pussy Riot's" support campaign.
Images: "Pussy Riot's" support campaign is spearheaded by Oksana Chelysheva of the US State Department-funded "Russian-Chechen Friendship Society," a clearing house for Chechen terrorist propaganda. Along with US State Department-subsidized Alexey Navalny and the West's media outlets on their side, the hooligan anti-establishment "punk rockers" now on trial in Moscow have a decidedly "establishment" backing. (click images to enlarge)
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Chelysheva was also "Deputy Executive Director" of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, fully funded by the US State Department via the National Endowment for Democracy. The "Friendship Society" was essentially a public relations front of Al Qaeda-aligned Chechen terrorists ravaging Russia's Caucasus region - a plot offered new relevance as the US, NATO, and Gulf States openly support similar groups of terrorists now ravaging Syria. The "Friendship Society" served a similar function to the now discredited "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights." . . .
Helping to push down on this political lever are propaganda outfits like the Guardian, portraying the trial as a case of liberal Russian opposition groups fighting against a judicial throwback to the Soviet Union. In reality, it is another Wall Street-London production in the same vein as Serbia's US-funded Otpor movement, the Kony 2012 fraud and the US-engineered "Arab Spring."
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/ ... -riot.html
More at the link, but you get the idea. And that's pretty much what's going on, IMHO.
Jeff wrote:Look at it this way, through the lens of recent history.
Occupy erupts, forcing the inequities and crises of finance capitalism into polite discourse. The most prominent and best-funded news channel providing exhaustive, sympathetic coverage is Russia Today.
Clearly, says the little Glenn Beck on my shoulder, Occupy is a catspaw of the Russkies. Er, right?
Or maybe it's that rival powers look to exploit one another's vulnerabilities. Oh: and also, perhaps rivals could both be monstrous systems of oppression.
Could be.
compared2what? wrote:
[politely dismantles Tony Cartalucci doing crude sinister insinuation learned at McCarthy's knee]
wordspeak2 wrote:It certainly doesn't mean that Putin's power is currently in jeopardy, but it's doing a lot to turn global public opinion against Russia...
JackRiddler wrote:wordspeak2 wrote:It certainly doesn't mean that Putin's power is currently in jeopardy, but it's doing a lot to turn global public opinion against Russia...
Such a mystery, since after all what could the Russian authorities have done instead to avoid this?!
You know, you give them an inch, they'll occupy the Kremlin. It's what the US authorities also understood with the minority movement known as Occupy. The only choices are zero tolerance or capitulation!
compared2what? wrote:There's some kind of beef between them and the U.S. State Department/Western media? No way!"
The West Has Jailed Many For Similar or Lesser Offenses
- 3 Years in Jail for Revising History: In 2006, the BBC reported, "British historian David Irving has been found guilty in Vienna of denying the Holocaust of European Jewry and sentenced to three years in prison." The BBC also reported, "the judge in his 2000 libel trial declared him "an active Holocaust denier... anti-Semitic and racist."" Irving's beliefs, as unpopular as they may be, were expressed in his writings and speeches, not in the middle of a synagogue he had burst into.
- 4 Years and 2 Years in Jail for Operating "Racist" Website: For the crime of operating a US-based "racist" website and possessing with intent to distribute "racist material," two British men, Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle were sentenced to 4 years and 2 years respectively in the UK in 2009. The presiding judge, according to the BBC, "told the men their material was "abusive and insulting" and had the potential to cause "grave social harm."" Unlike Pussy Riot, however, these 2 men only crammed their leaflets into the door of a synagogue - instead of bursting in. Still they received 3-4 years in prison.
Tony Cartalucci wrote:Finally, "Pussy Riot" are not punk rockers. They are US State Department-backed instruments of corporate-financier hegemony, used as leverage against a Russian government standing in the way of Wall Street and London's order of international corporatocracy. The punk culture, ironically represents the antithesis of such an international order - ironic indeed that so many have superficially defended "Pussy Riot" as targeted "punkers" when substantively they are "poseurs."
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