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Russian lesbians stage selfie kiss plane protest. Two lesbian activists found themselves sitting in the row in front of Vitaly Milonov, the architect of Russian’s anti-gay laws, on a flight from Moscow to St Petersburg. So the women took a selfie of themselves kissing to protest against his anti-gay policies, featuring the sleeping politician in the background. The image went viral after they posted it on Instagram. One of the women, identified on social media as Kseniya Infinity, wrote: “Who’s that in the background???
MILONOV! And we don’t give a f***! We’re flying to our favourite club, Infinity.” The selfie-kiss protest comes as Milonov is drafting a bill in the Kremlin to close a loophole that has allowed same-sex couples to marry in Russia. After the incident, Kseniya Infinity uploaded more photos on to her VKontakte social media page, with a description of what took place on the plane. The activist gave her explanation of the selfie on her VK Post, according to a translation by the news site Meduza: Kseniya added: Russia says drivers must not have 'sex disorders' 8 January 2015Last updated at 14:01 ET Moscow street: Various mental "disorders" are seen as a cause of road accidents Russia has listed transsexual and transgender people among those who will no longer qualify for driving licences.
Fetishism, exhibitionism and voyeurism are also included as "mental disorders" now barring people from driving. The government says it is tightening medical controls for drivers because Russia has too many road accidents. "Pathological" gambling and compulsive stealing are also on the list. The announcement follows international complaints about Russian harassment of gay-rights activists. In 2013 Russia made "promoting non-traditional lifestyles" illegal. Valery Evtushenko at the Russian Psychiatric Association voiced concern about the driving restrictions, speaking to the BBC Russian Service. The Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights called the new law "discriminatory". But the Professional Drivers Union supported the move. Rogozin : Life Поздравляем... Une Pussy Riot décrit son quotidien "d'esclave" dans un camp de travail.
Le Monde.fr avec AFP et Reuters | • Mis à jour le "A partir de lundi 23 septembre, je commence une grève de la faim. C'est une méthode extrême, mais je suis convaincue que c'est actuellement la seule solution. " Dans une lettre ouverte publiée par le Guardian, Nadejda Tolokonnikova, l'une des trois Pussy Riot, condamnée en 2012 à deux ans de travaux forcés pour hooliganisme et blasphème, décrit ses conditions de détention au camp de travail pour femmes en Mordovie, dont les détails brossent un tableau très sombre. A propos des règles de détention, elle écrit par exemple : "Afin de maintenir discipline et obéissance, il existe un système de punition officieux. (...) Un récit qui comporte son lot de scènes de torture, parfois organisées par des prisonnières alliées des geôliers. "Certaines sont battues. Outre les tortures et supplices corporels, Nadejda Tolokonnikova détaille des campements insalubres, et un manque d'hygiène sciemment provoqué par les geôliers.
Des athlètes russes défient Poutine avec un baiser de la victoire. Gay rights protesters arrested in Russia - Europe. Gay rights campaigners were arrested on Friday in Moscow while staging a "kiss-in" protest outside the building of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, over a proposed bill banning homosexual "propaganda. " A group of 20 mostly young opponents embraced and kissed their same-sex partners to protest against the bill, their third such action there in a week.
The bill could lead to gay men and women being fined for demonstrating or kissing in public, a decision condemned by the United States and rights groups. The 388-1 vote on Friday in support of the bill, the first of three readings, came hours after the demonstration. Witnesses said officers detained 20 supporters and opponents of the bill as small scuffles broke out. The bill aims to shield Russians aged up to 18 from what its authors call dangerous ideas on freedoms spread by Western-backed advocates and social media. 'Of course we need this law' Homosexuality became decriminalised in Russia at the end of the Soviet era.
Les Pussy Riot en remettent une louche. Le portrait de Poutine brûlé. Nicolas Gros-Verheyde / Caucase Géorgie Ukraine Russie, Clip / (BRUXELLES2) La première intervention des Pussy Riot – qui a valu à trois d’entre elles une condamnation à deux années de camp de travail pour hooliganisme – était anti conformiste et joyeusement perturbatrice, mais restait « gentille » dans l’allusion politique à Poutine. Elle priait simplement la Vierge Marie de les débarrasser de Poutine. La dernière intervention – qui vient de sortir sur la toile - postée jeudi sur le site de NME – et destinée aux MTV Musical Awards, apparait beaucoup plus politique, un véritable appel à la révolte, prenant à partie violemment le chef du Kremlin et ses sbires. Au moins trois jeunes femmes, portant la cagoule colorée, désormais célèbre des Pussy Riots, réaffirment leur combat pour la liberté, un combat « plus grand que la vie », affirment-elles, en descendant en rappel un bâtiment désaffecté, avant de brûler la photo de Poutine.
La proclamation des Pussy Riot pour la liberté inShare0. Why did the Russian Government Install Webcams in Polling Stations? Continuing the discussion regarding the (perhaps) counter-intuitive decision of the Russian government to install webcams with freely available live-feeds in polling stations throughout the country in last Sunday’s presidential election, NYU Ph.D. candidate Andrew Little sends along the following comments: It may seem puzzling that Russian government spent 300 million dollars installing webcams in every polling station for the presidential election this past week. As mentioned in a Monkey Cage post back before the election, I have a theoretical paper that seeks to explain why governments voluntarily invite international election monitors, which can easily be adapted to this question. In short, installing webcams can serve as a very visible mechanism to make certain types of fraud more visible/difficult. So, for a fixed election result, the government will seem more popular when there are monitors and webcams, while spending less effort to commit fraud.
De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis. Sean’s Russia Blog. La Russie, vingt ans après... La transition de la Russie vers l'économie de marché a suscité beaucoup de débats sur les retombées de cette expérience. Avec vingt ans de recul sur la question, il est temps de faire un petit bilan. Que s'est-il vraiment passé en Russie depuis l'effondrement de l'URSS ? D'après Shleifer et Treisman : "Les journalistes, les politiciens et les experts académiques tendent à décrire la Russie non pas comme un pays à revenu moyen qui lutte pour enterrer son passé communiste et trouver sa place dans le monde mais comme un Etat corrompu et en ruine. " Est-ce que cette image correspond vraiment à la réalité ? Que disent les statistiques ? Shleifer et Treisman nous expliquent qu'au moment de la transition, les statistiques ont enregistré une baisse du PIB de 39% ce qui a suscité des commentaires très négatifs sur les bienfaits du passage à l'économie de marché.
Impossible, donc, de se faire une idée en regardant les statistiques officielles. Que disent les Russes ? Qu'en est-il aujourd'hui ? WikiLeaks ready to drop a bombshell on Russia. But will Russians get to read about it? The Kremlin had better brace itself for a coming wave of WikiLeaks disclosures about Russia, the website's founder, Julian Assange, told a leading Moscow newspaper Tuesday. Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition "We have [compromising materials] about Russia, about your government and businessmen," Mr. Assange told the pro-government daily Izvestia. "But not as much as we'd like... We will publish these materials soon. " He then dropped a hint that's likely to be nervously parsed in Russia's corridors of power: "We are helped by the Americans, who pass on a lot of material about Russia," to WikiLeaks, he said.
FIVE BOMBSHELLS from WikiLeaks' Iraq war documents Russian security experts say there probably won't be anything comparable to the huge archives of US military secrets from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that the website has recently published. 'A lot of interesting facts' about Russia. Russian blogger creates Wikileaks-style anticorruption site. Popular Russian journalist and blogger Alexei Navalny has created a whistleblowing website to document corruption in Russia. The site, which is currently only operating in testing mode at rospil.info, allows users to publish any information they have detailing corrupt practices in Russia, and discuss the material online. The site is modeled on the WikiLeaks website, which hit the headlines last week after if began releasing more than 250,000 confidential U.S. diplomatic cables. Experts said the Russian whistleblowing website may prove to be a good resource for tackling corruption, especially since Navalny is already a popular public figure.
Navalny, who is a minority shareholder in a number of large Russian companies, has made consistent calls for greater transparency in Russian business practices. The Berlin-based non-governmental anti-corruption organization Transparency International has persistently rated Russia one of the most corrupt nations in the world.