Rumyantsev is the fourth person to receive prison time under Russia’s new ban on “fakes.” Of the previous three, two were politicians. In May, Alexey Gorinov, a municipal deputy from Moscow’s Krasnoselsky District, was sentenced to seven years behind bars. In early December, the former head of the same municipal council, Ilya Yashin, was sentenced to eight and a half years. Another sentence — of two and a half years — was handed out) to Alexander Tarapon, a resident of the Crimean city of Alushta, who hung a sign reading “Here lives a war criminal” on the gates of a relative who served in Russia’s National Guard.
The news outlet OVD-Info reports that there has been a total of 124 felony cases concerning “disinformation” in Russia this year. The courts have not yet heard the majority of them. The most common punishment in cases that have reached judges is community service.
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A reply on that last quote tweet says the map comes from previous Ukrainian memes.
ETA: I never considered this before.
However, between Ukraine and Georgia, the C.I.S. has been reduced in membership to match the symbol, unlike another.
russkies go home
“Unusual,” you say?
This is not the great fringe benefit that they think it is.
Right now freezing it on the battlefield is free too.
Courtesy Ukraine.
Trying to distract Western Europe by shit-stirring in Serbia?
Every denial from the Kremlin can be safely assumed to be an admission.
My fucking god this obsession with the goddamned lord of the rings franchise that runs through Russian, Euro, and US fascists has actually made me hate the fucking books and all they stand for and I once (long ago) considered studying folklore as an academic a dream job. It’s just poison. I hope Tolkien is boiling in the blood hell.
Unfair. They’re excellent books, with a pretty good trilogy of movie adaptations, and Tolkien was infinitely better a person than the Nazi fucks who are trying to appropriate his work based on their twisted, surface-level (if even that) misunderstanding of it.
I’d argue that it’s just Putin taking advantage of an already volatile situation. I’m sure him weighing in isn’t helping, but this situation has been deteriorating since Kurti took office, if not before… the Serb minority in the north was already demanding greater ties with Serbia (including the whole shit with the fucking license plates) before he got elected, and but given their perception that he’s little more than a Albanian nationalists bent of ethnically cleansing the north of Kosovo of ethnic Serbian citizens (a deeply dubious claim!), this was going to unravel with or without Putin’s comments or support. We never did shit to try and sort through the competing nationalism, and no one has since Tito died.
You don’t get to tell others how they feel about something like that. You don’t have to feel that way, but telling others they are wrong for doing so is kind of bullshit.
Great context, thanks!
