Feminist group Pussy Riot jailed for two years!

eaglitarian · 2012-08-17T15:58:59+00:00

What's the MR angle? They're described as a feminist band but this seems to be a don't-annoy-Putin issue rather than anything actually feminism- or MR-related.

(Edit: The judge did talk about "considering men and women to be equal" somehow constituting religious hatred. I think this is fairly clearly more to do with anti-Putin protests, but either way I don't think we have any reason to be happy about the verdict.)

burritosandbeer · 2012-08-17T17:40:19+00:00

Uh, I'm having trouble seeing how this is relevant here. Although I will say I find the ruling bogus, and support the girls involved.

alphabetpal · 2012-08-17T16:00:55+00:00

Ok, I can't make heads or tails of this article (pro-tip: when writing, tell the reader what you're writing about!) but they were jailed for something they said? I can't get excited about that, feminist or not. If they don't have free speech, we sure as hell won't.

CedMon · 2012-08-17T16:01:16+00:00

This is purely a political/Religious move, not one motivated by gender or gender ideology.

I this comment in WorldNews explains it best imo:

Russian here and had experience with our...khm...court and judicial system.

That is a commercial organization which also is a cover up for government and it's deeds.

It works either by the orders from top or if there are none, by the commercial interest they seek in cases.

Some "funny" facts about recent things happening in Moscow:

Pussy Riot are found guilty and will be sentenced now to 3+ years most probably. <-- lets take it as a base! now let's see:

The guy who raped two girls, one of them was 16 years old will serve in jail 1 month, while his total is about 4 years, but he has spent 2+ of them in a hospital while he was faking mental illness (just bribed everyone).

The teacher who went to a village and built a cultural center there will serve 8 year for a bribing. It was a set up by a local businessman to get back investments and this teacher was just a "meat".

Nice comparison to what Pussy Riot did (danced in a church and later apologized for that in front of religious people).

Now about the church:

The priest was driving a Mercedes Gelendvagen (how the fuck he got it?) and got into an accident killing road workers. He fled from the scene. http://spbvoditel.ru/2012/08/17/015/

Another priest was driving BMW Z4 with diplomatic plates (wtfff????) and hit two cars. After his "friends" came and started "sroting things out" - now the whole case is shifting to him being not guilty possibly.

Patriarch (the head of Russian church) has an apartment in a nice house in Moscow. He sued his neighbors for doing a renovation in their apartment (below his apartment) for enormous sum of money faking some damages which are not there or never were caused by this renovation. As more to that - these neighbors know him personally, but he now dodges any contact.

Oh and also he has 1 yacht, at least tow Cadilacs Escalade, 35000$ watches... I guess god is treating him well.

So would you dance in a church which is ruled by people like these? I will! not only dance I guess.

But, church and Putin are friends - then you know what you get!

P.s. Many Russians understand this and know this, but are helpless. Government has all the means of control. It is a dictatorship, just masked for now.

EpicJ · 2012-08-17T16:12:50+00:00

I don't know what they were expecting really, the system in Russia is corrupt, they were basically poking a sleeping bear with a stick.

Title	Feminist group Pussy Riot jailed for two years!
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