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By Garry Kasparov
Moscow
The only surprise to come out of Friday's guilty verdict in the trial here of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot was how many people acted surprised. Three young women were sentenced to two years in prison for the prank of singing an anti-Putin "prayer" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Their jailing was the next logical step for Vladimir Putin's steady crackdown on "acts against the social order," the Kremlin's expansive term for any public display of resistance.
In the 100 days since Mr. Putin's re-election as president, severe new laws against public protest have been passed and the homes of opposition leaders have been raided. These are not the actions of a regime prepared to grant leniency to anyone who offends Mr. Putin's latest ally, the Orthodox Church and its patriarch.
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Police detain author Garry Kasparov during the trial of the female punk band "Pussy Riot" outside a court building in Moscow, August 17, 2012.
Unfortunately, I was not there to hear the judge's decision, which she took hours to read. The crowds outside the court building made entry nearly impossible, so I stood in a doorway and took questions from journalists. Suddenly, I was dragged away by a group of police—in fact carried away with one policeman on each arm and leg.
The men refused to tell me why I was being arrested and shoved me into a police van. When I got up to again ask why I had been detained, things turned violent. I was restrained, choked and struck several times by a group of officers before being driven to the police station with dozens of other protesters. After several hours I was released, but not before they told me I was being criminally investigated for assaulting a police officer who claimed I had bitten him.
It would be easy to laugh at such a bizarre charge when there are already so many videos and photos of the police assaulting me. But in a country where you can be imprisoned for two years for singing a song, laughter does not come easily. My bruises will heal long before the members of Pussy Riot are free to see their young children again. In the past, Mr. Putin's critics and enemies have been jailed on a wide variety of spurious criminal charges, from fraud to terrorism.
But now the masks are off. Unlikely as it may be, the three members of a punk band have become our first true political prisoners.
Such a brazen step should raise alarms, but the leaders of the Free World are clearly capable of sleeping through any wake-up call. A spokesman for the Obama administration called the sentence "disproportionate," as if the length of the prison term were the only problem with open repression of political speech.
Mr. Putin is not worried about what the Western press says, or about celebrities tweeting their support for Pussy Riot. These are not the constituencies that concern him.
Friday, the Russian paper Vedomosti reported that former Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann could be put in charge of managing the hundreds of billions of dollars in the Russian sovereign wealth fund. As long as bankers and other Western elites eagerly line up to do Mr. Putin's bidding, the situation in Russia will only get worse. I hope that the chaos and outrage around the Pussy Riot trial shows Mr. Ackermann and others like him that Putin's Russia is a very dangerous investment.
If officials at the U.S. State Department are as "seriously concerned" about free speech in Russia as they say, I suggest they drop their opposition to the Magnitsky Act pending in the Senate. That legislation would bring financial and travel sanctions against the functionaries who enact the Kremlin's agenda of repression. Hit them where it hurts and expose them as the thugs that they are. Those who wish to help should pressure their representatives to pass such measures. If you live in a democracy you have a voice. Do not waste it.
Mr. Putin could not care less about winning public-relations battles in the Western press, or about fighting them at all. He and his cronies care only about money and power. Friday's events make it clear that they will fight for those things until Russia's jails are full.
Mr. Kasparov, a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal, is the leader of the Russian pro-democracy group United Civil Front and chairman of the U.S.-based Human Rights Foundation. He resides in Moscow.
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http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10000872396390444375104577595811340186308-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwODAxODg3Wj.html?mod=wsj_valettop_email#articleTabs%3Darticle
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| Пн, Авг 20, 2012 10:00am [Аноним] - 4276 d back | ↑↓ |
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BTW - Каспарова уже объявили психом который искусал полицейского!!! Что говорить о "маленьких людях" которые не имеют такой мировой известности??
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| Пн, Авг 20, 2012 10:02am Дед Пихто - 4276 d back | ↑↓ |
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Гари Кимович всё правильно говорит, но........пока в БД сидит етот пур екскьюз оф а президент ево НИКТО не станет слушать там, куда он шлёт свой посыл то биш на Капитолийском Холме.
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У каспарова что, шахматные деньги закончились? Чего он полез на баррикады? Или с головкой проблемы - играть уже не может? Явно тронулся Гарик 
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Дурдом! ОБЩЕСТВО » Активистки украинского движения FEMEN едут в Россию пилить православные кресты
Опубликовано : 2012-08-20 21:31:35
Москва, 20 августа - АиФ-Москва. Представительницы украинского движения FEMEN заявили, что в ближайшее время намерены отправиться в гастрольный тур по России, в ходе которого планируют пилить православные кресты. Специально для этой цели феминистки организовали трэш-группу «Крестоповал». Об этом в понедельник, 20 августа сообщает агентство Росбалт.
Сообщается, что маршрут группы пройдет по очагам православного деревянного зодчества России. «Генеральный спонсор тура компания «STIHL», а девиз – «Пили кресты, спасай Россию!», – отмечается в сообщении, опубликованном на сайте движения.
Обозреватели отмечают, что 17 августа, в день вынесения приговора участницам группы Pussy Riot, активистки FEMEN спилили деревянный крест, установленный над киевским майданом Незалежности.
Постоянный адрес статьи: http://www.aif.ru/society/news/187199
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У каспарова что, шахматные деньги закончились? Чего он полез на баррикады? (ц)
людям каторые думают што *на барикады* можно лезть тока изза денех, БЕСПОЛЕЗНО обьяснять мотивы Гари Кимовича.
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дааа. вроде думаешь, раз хороший шахматист, наверняка умнейший человек...
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так и есть. просто даунам и охлосу НИКОГДА не постич всей глубины ЕВО УМА.
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Aha, so anonist seems to be saying that anyone who is not with him poliitically is stupid? That's not a very intelligent way of thinking, is it???
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