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Posted on March 21, 2012 - by Venik
Buranovskiye Babushki: Russia’s Eurovision song contest representatives – in pictures
Buranovskiye Babushki, a group of women ranging in age from 43 to 86 who sing traditional songs and pop classics, have been voted by popular demand to represent Russia in the forthcoming Eurovision song contest Original article Share on bebo Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share [...]
Posted on March 21, 2012 - by Venik
Times libel ruling restores Reynolds public interest defence
Publication of allegations about police corruption involving extradition of Russian oligarchs was legitimate, rules court Publication by the Times of allegations about police corruption involving the extradition of Russian oligarchs was legitimate, the supreme court has ruled in a judgment which significantly restores the so-called Reynolds public interest defence. Five supreme court justices on Wednesday [...]
Posted on March 20, 2012 - by Venik
Russian plane with ‘hole’ in the wing – video
This video shows a missing inspection panel in the wing of a Boeing 737 scheduled flight from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk, Siberia Original article Share on bebo Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the [...]
Posted on March 19, 2012 - by Venik
Iron Lady lost in Russian translation
Margaret Thatcher depicted as a Hitler-admiring leader who wants to destroy the working class in a pirated version of the film Speaking to a crowd of supporters, Margaret Thatcher, as played by Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady, explains what she would do as prime minister: “Crush the working class, crush the scum, the yobs.” [...]
Posted on March 17, 2012 - by Venik
John Demjanjuk, convicted Nazi death camp guard, dies aged 91
Retired American factory worker, convicted in 2011 for role in Sobibor death camp, protested his innocence for three decades John Demjanjuk, a retired American factory worker convicted of being a guard at the Nazi Sobibor death camp,has died aged 91. Demjanjuk was convicted in May 2011 of 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder [...]
Posted on March 16, 2012 - by Venik
Punk rock … alive and kicking in a repressive state near you
Punk rock is ancient history here, but elsewhere disaffected young people are discovering its anarchic energy – despite the enormous risks they face from their oppressive regimes It’s been a long time since the term “punk rock” could strike fear into the British establishment. The Sex Pistols’ John Lydon – aka Johnny Rotten – was long [...]
Posted on March 15, 2012 - by Venik
Dagestani lawyer beaten by police refuses to be broken | Nadira Isaeva
Sapiyat Magomedova’s beating hasn’t stopped her fighting for other suspects kidnapped and tortured by security services On the evening of 20 January, two friends were shot dead by masked men in the Makhachkala, the capital of the Russian republic of Dagestan. One was the lawyer Umar Sagidmagomedov. The two murderers arrived in an armoured police [...]
Posted on March 15, 2012 - by Venik
Putin’s fabled tiger encounter was PR stunt, say environmentalists
Putin allegedly came face to face with wild tiger four years ago, but bloggers now say it was set up using a zoo animal It was Vladimir Putin’s much flaunted love of animals that brought him face to face with a tiger four years ago. Deep in the woods of Russia’s far east, the powerful [...]
Posted on March 14, 2012 - by Venik
Letter: The Tory-Putin axis
Anthony Lester is right to stress that the package of reforms for the European court of human rights which was first drawn up at the Council of Europe two years ago deserves support (Comment, 14 March). But they will cost money, and Britain has refused to increase budget support for the ECHR. Many Conservative MPs, [...]
Posted on March 14, 2012 - by Venik
Pop musik: the sound of the charts in … Russia
Andrew Khan explores the gangster aspirations and gay culture references of the Russian pop music scene Pussy Riot‘s anti-Putin agit-punk may have temporarily made them international stars, but explicit political messages are a rarity in the Russian charts, irrespective of whether they’re aimed at the ruling party or country’s powerful business elite. That may not [...]
Posted on March 13, 2012 - by Venik
UN security council: Hague condemns violence in Syria – video
The foreign secretary, William Hague, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, address the UN security council Original article Share on bebo Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it [...]
Posted on March 12, 2012 - by Venik
Russia: hard graft starts here | Editorial
It is easy to say what the past three months of mass protests against Vladimir Putin were not. They were not a Russian replay of the Arab spring It is easy to say what the past three months of mass protests against Vladimir Putin were not. They were not a Russian replay of the Arab [...]
Posted on March 12, 2012 - by Venik
St Petersburg bans ‘homosexual propaganda’
Russian city is fourth to adopt anti-gay legislation as politicians and Orthodox Church push for laws to apply nationwide Twenty years after homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia, anti-gay legislation is making a rapid comeback, with St Petersburg becoming the latest city to ban “homosexual propaganda”. The law, signed by St Petersburg’s governor last week, came [...]
Posted on March 12, 2012 - by Venik
Russian punk band Pussy Riot branded as ‘sinners’ by Orthodox church
Church spokesman attacks group as activists mount campaign to free two band members arrested after protest at cathedral The Russian Orthodox church has called feminist punk band Pussy Riot “sinners”, their concerts a “boorish, arrogant and aggressive” challenge to Christians. Now activists in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk have hung up billboards of the band’s [...]
