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Tag: Vladimir Putin
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Pia Lindström and me at SiriusXM Radio Studios in New York City " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/sirius.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/sirius.jpg?fit=750%2C750&ssl=1"/> -
Vodka Dump in front of the Russian Consulate | Photo by Randy Gener " data-medium-file="https://i1.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_7801cu1.jpg?fit=800%2C599&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i1.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_7801cu1.jpg?fit=750%2C561&ssl=1"/> PRO VS. CON #DUMPSTOLI | How does the boycott of a Latvian vodka change Putin’s anti-gay laws and save lives of Russian LGBT youth?
The #dumpstoli campaign has been a global public-relations success. But have the protests for public awareness of repressive anti-gay laws in Russia been misdirected and unfairly targeted a long-time ally of the LGBT community? Will the Dump Vodka protests actually change the minds of the Russian parliament? Here is my on-the-ground investigation of yesterday’s protest in front of the Russian Consulate in New York.
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Naked campaign: Black Cross against oppression in Russia " data-medium-file="https://i2.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1072470_10200197232684111_1036625604_o.jpg?fit=800%2C415&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i2.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1072470_10200197232684111_1036625604_o.jpg?fit=750%2C389&ssl=1"/> NAKED DIPLOMACY | 450 naked runners race as part of Free Pussy Riot campaign
The prompt to begin the naked run in the Netherlands was given 14:30 via Skype from Russia by a Pussy Riot member. Runners wearing nothing but helmets and sneakers in the Netherlands show support for Russian punk band Pussy Riot.
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Gerard Depardieu meets Russia’s Alexander Putin | Courtesy of Reuters " data-medium-file="https://i1.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/depardieu-putin_2444226b-reuters.jpg?fit=620%2C387&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i1.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/depardieu-putin_2444226b-reuters.jpg?fit=620%2C387&ssl=1"/> FILM-FLAM DIPLOMACY | Will you accept a post of culture minister in Siberia if you were GĂ©rard Depardieu?
The Siberian region is notorious for its Stalin-era gulag prison camps. It is also the same area where one of the members of the punk band Pussy Riot is presently serving a two-year sentence for reciting an anti-Putin prayer in a Russian orthodox church in February 2012.
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Amnesty International Demands Russia Release Punk Singers Detained Following Church Performance " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pussy.jpg?fit=800%2C540&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pussy.jpg?fit=750%2C506&ssl=1"/> Putin’s Pussy problem | Feminist punk group Pussy Riot calls Vladimir Putin’s Russia “repressive” and “totalitarian”
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, one of the three women, said, “If this political system throws itself against three girls … it shows this political system is afraid of truth.” She called the charges against them a “political order for repression” and denounced Putin’s “totalitarian-authoritarian system.”
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Amnesty International Demands Russia Release Punk Singers Detained Following Church Performance " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pussy.jpg?fit=800%2C540&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/cultureofoneworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/pussy.jpg?fit=750%2C506&ssl=1"/> Putin’s Pussy problem | Amnesty International demands that Russia release anti-Putin punk singers detained after church performance
Three young women are being detained by Russian authorities for allegedly performing a protest song in a cathedral as part of a feminist punk group Pussy Riot. If found guilty, they could be jailed for up to 7 years just for exercising their free speech. The three women are currently in pre-trial detention, which has been extended to January 2013.
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Russian law seeks to label foreign-funded nonprofits “foreign agents”
Civil and human rights activists note that Russian donors are afraid to support nonprofit organizations that criticize the government, which leaves those nonprofits dependent on foreign funding.