Hey Rob Anders, it’s your party which is the party of Putin
Peas in a pod Like the Conservatives’ voter suppression tactics during the last federal election in Canada, it looks like Russia’s governing party also rigged the vote. No surprise there,…
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Video: Saint Petersburg passes homophobic law to cleanse society of gay people
Lawmakers in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday passed a controversial law banning "homosexual propaganda" in the city of nearly five million inhabitants. The city's governor, Georgy Poltavchenko, has vowed to…
Video: Saint Petersburg passes homophobic law to cleanse society of gay people
Lawmakers in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday passed a controversial law banning “homosexual propaganda” in the city of nearly five million inhabitants. The city’s governor, Georgy Poltavchenko, has vowed to…
Video: Saint Petersburg passes homophobic law to cleanse society of gay people
Lawmakers in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday passed a controversial law banning “homosexual propaganda” in the city of nearly five million inhabitants. The city’s governor, Georgy Poltavchenko, has vowed to…
St. Petersburg Bans “Homosexual Propaganda”
Bad news out of Russia: St. Petersburg passed a law banning “homosexual propaganda” today. What counts as propaganda is broad and ill-defined, so Russian Slap readers may officially reading be…
Arab Dictatorships Want To Kill Syrian Revolution
The first thing that has to be said is that the Syrian people are bravely resisting and suffering under – first and foremost – the brutal Syrian regime. But the…
Syrian Revolution: Caught Between Repression & Imperialism
The first and foremost thing that must be said is that the people of Syria, who have resisted an utterly vicious military repression of their aspirations for nearly a year,…
Aeroflot tells gay flight attendant to marry woman
Pure insanity from Russia. After Maxim Kupreev created an LGBT group within Aeroflot to fight for the protection of the rights of gay employees in June 2011, the airline offered…
Tuesday drive-by blogging
A collection of items noted in the past week or so. 1. Canadian Press had a good year end type piece on the 24th. It captured what was, to me,…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-11 02:07:00
PERSONAL MOLLY DEBATES THE INSANE Most of Molly’s “action” is now over at her Facebook site. Over there there is an interesting “debate” if you can call it such. The…
Networked Shock Art: Voina in the News – Analysis of political interventions of Russian art collective
For the last year Vorotnikov and Nikolaev have been waging a legal battle with Russian authorities for their freedom. While these challenges facing Voina have been well documented on Art…
To Russia, from Love
To Russia, Just a quick note to let you know that it has become clear to me that I am needed there, especially in light of an ongoing crackdown on…
Russia Proposes Ban On “Gay Propaganda”
The city of Saint Petersburg in Russia has introduced a bill that would impose a $100 fine for anyone found promoting “homosexual propaganda.” The fine is increased up to $1,600…
Lessons from Kyrgyzstan
A year before the Arab Spring, Kyrgyzstan experienced a populist uprising of its own complete with violent conflict, from both the state and between ethnicities, and resulted in a change…
We must remember war in order to stop it – Friday Film Pick: Come and See
For Remembrance Day watch Klimov's classic anti-war film COME AND SEE.
Autism in Russia: Pravda Misrepresents Asperger’s as Autism
Like its mainstream media counterparts in the US and Canada the Russian news service Pravda is busy misrepresenting Asperger's as Autism. In Autism: Life full of struggle and success there…
Put-in in and Medvedev out as the president of Russia
Vladimir Put-in is going to be put back in as the President and caretaker Dmitry Medvedev will continue to serve Putin as a Prime Minister now. Putin is not much…
Libyan Rebels Are NATO Patsies For A New Great Game In Africa
Today: UK PM Cameron with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, head of rebel TNC & former Gaddafi Justice Minister In the first days following the pro-democracy demonstrations and then uprising in Libya,…
Another Russian Gay Pride March Ends In Violence
For the sixth consecutive year, Moscow has forbidden a peaceful gay rights demonstration from happening within the city, and for the sixth consecutive year, equal rights advocates have defied the…
Watch from Russia: What would you do…?
As most of you have probably already heard, violence erupted in Moscow on May 28, when gay rights activists and their hateful far right opponents clashed at the sixth straight…