Wednesday, March 27, 2013

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Опираясь на высказывания некоторых российских политологов, обозреватель радиостанции предполагает, что Владимир Путин может стать жертвой одного из своих ближайших сподвижников – Сергея Иванова. Автор статьи Брайан Уитмор опирается в своих рассуждениях на блог ...

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Not That Kind of Girl
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“Abusing freedom of speech” must certainly become the motto of Putin's third term. The party was not pleased by the fact that a highly regarded newspaper called three of its female members who had left other ... We don't fight duels these days, and let ...
Russian legislator pressed to quit seat over US visitYahoo! News (blog)
Putin's Vertical DumaThe Moscow Times

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Andrey Borodin's political asylum in London: symptom of deepening Russia ... - The Voice of Russia
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Andrey Borodin's political asylum in London: symptom of deepening Russia ...
The Voice of Russia
0Andrey Borodin thus joins the group of Russian oligarchs who have elected to go into exile rather than face charges in Russia; these include Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Leonid Nevzlin (an associate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky) and Yevgeny ...

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A lot more than Cyprus at stake as Russia bares its fangs over crisis - Irish Times (subscription)
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A lot more than Cyprus at stake as Russia bares its fangs over crisis
Irish Times (subscription)
The chubby lawyer has always played Robin to president Vladimir Putin's Batman, metaphorically holding the judoka and former KGB spy's briefcase when a little of the rough stuff was required in disputes with domestic or foreign foes. ... He has accused ...
Cyprus turns to Russia as crisis growsMail & Guardian Online
Cyprus to keep banks shut into next week as it seeks deal to avert disasterHere Is The City
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It's obvious, Cyprus should adopt the Israeli Shekel - The Commentator
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It's obvious, Cyprus should adopt the Israeli Shekel
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When catastrophe strikes, as it inevitably does, you refuse point blank to face up to the blindingly obvious and allow the worst hit countries to pull out of said currency zone, devalue and put themselves back on a competitive footing. Instead, you do ...

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Russian artist who impersonated Marilyn Monroe and Vladimir Putin dies at 43 - Raw Story
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Russian artist who impersonated Marilyn Monroe and Vladimir Putin dies at 43
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Born in Leningrad, he was part of the city's exuberant avant-garde scene in the 1980s, mixing withcult figures such as artist Timur Novikov and musician Sergei Kuryokhin. He began to experiment with dressing up and ... Tolstoy to pop star Madonna and ...

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Закрытие «дела Магнитского» в США сочли ответом на отказ Техаса преследовать приемных родителей Кузьмина - Газета.Ru
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Закрытие «дела Магнитского» в США сочли ответом на отказ Техаса преследовать приемных родителей Кузьмина
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А когда к этому списку присоединится ЕС (разумеется, после того как накроется оффшорами Кипр), то Астахов первый же перегрызёт горло Бастрыкину, чтобы доказать своё искреннее расскаяние и исправить ошибки, допущенные во времена культа личности Путина. tollko_vpered ...

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Putin rolls out the red carpet (and guards on horseback) for visit of President Xi - The Independent
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Putin rolls out the red carpet (and guards on horseback) for visit of President Xi
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China needs a female role-model. Imagine what would it be like if China had a First Lady like Michelle Obama?” wrote one online fashion commentator. Since the cult of personality that built up around Chairman Mao Zedong, the Communist Party has sought ... 
First lady in focus as China president Xi Jinping goes to RussiaIrish Times (subscription)

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Russian police conducting “unannounced audits” on Amnesty International ...
Hot Air (blog)
Man, oh man — semi-to fully-autocratic, socialist-leaning, personality-cult pushing strongmen really do seem to just love a good conspiracy theory, don't they? Most especially when it can help quell their country's dueling factions by spreading a ...

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

3.26.13 - RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – March 26, 2013 via Robert Amsterdam - Mike Nova: excellent review! | other news


via Robert Amsterdam by Citizen M on 3/26/13
260313TODAY: Berezovsky death ‘consistent with hanging’, suspicions remain; Amnesty offices searched; Putin backs Cyprus bailout deal; Gazprom firm on Ukraine prices; China’s new energy deals; Zhirinovsky re-elected.
According to the postmortem examination, the cause of Boris Berezovsky’s death was ‘consistent with hanging’, and ruled out the possibility of a violent struggle, but as RFE/RL notes, the police statement did not specify whether Berezovsky hanged himself.  Luke Harding discusses the suspicions that nonetheless remain with the oligarch’s friends and family, who suspect that he was murdered: close friend Nikolai Glushkov has dismissed reports of Berezovsky’s alleged depression and financial problems, saying, ‘the idea that he would have taken his own life is bullshit’.  The Moscow Times says that Berezovsky may have been a scapegoat, but that his villainous reputation was not unfounded.  ‘Since Berezovsky’s departure for London in 2000, he has been demonized by the Kremlin as the antithesis of everything Putin stands for. But the truth is that they were once patron and protege, master and apprentice.’  Yevgeny Kiselyov discusses the relationship between Putin and ‘Yeltsin’s kingmaker’ in more detail.  Vadim Nikitin says Berezovsky ‘produced his own gravediggers’.  Prosecutors searched the Moscow headquarters of Amnesty International yesterday, part of what many opposition members are calling an ongoing campaign of pressure against rights organisations; Amnesty called the raid ‘straightforward intimidation’.
Cyprus and the European Union have reached a bailout deal which, argues theWashington Post, could be bad news for Russia in a deal that ‘was a sort of stand-off between Moscow and the E.U.’ over which of Cyprus’ benefactors would benefit most.  But Vladimir Putin has decided to back the deal, despite disgruntled rhetoric from some officials, and Anders Aslund argues that ‘Cyprus is Russia’s only true friend in the global arena’.  As part of the deal, which will impose a levy on major deposits held in Cypriot banks (affecting rich Russians who have bank accounts there), Russia will restructure the €2.5 billion loan it extended to the country two years ago.  Gazprom has reiterated that it will not give any ground in its price dispute with Ukraine.  Bloomberg has a breakdown of some of the deals brokered between Russia and China during President Xi Jinping’s trip, including doubling imports from Rosneft, and China National Petroleum Corp joining Rosneft in exploring offshore Arctic areas for oil.
Organisers of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics are reportedly ‘storing snow’ in case of a lack next February.  Vladimir Zhirinovsky has been re-elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party to continue a role already spanning over two decades.  Over69,000 new cases of HIV were registered in Russia last year.
PHOTO: In this Wednesday, March, 10, 2010 file photo, self-exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky leaves the High Court in London after winning his libel case against a Russian broadcaster that accused him of masterminding the murder of a former Russian agent in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
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The Berezovksy Era
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One of the Kremlin's many tricks in the late 1990s was to use the nationalist demagogue Vladimir Zhirinovsky as a potential (and puppet) fascist threat to frighten both Russians and Western observers into the arms of the Kremlin's party. Zhirinovsky ...
Boris Berezovsky and the dangers of being a Russian exile in the UKThe Guardian
Russian tycoon Berezovsky found dead; police investigation under wayGlobe and Mail
Berezovsky 'was hanged': Initial post-mortem says there was no sign of a...Daily Mail
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Член Совета Федерации Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации, выдвиженец партии "Единая Россия" сенатор Авихур Бен Бар полчаса назад сложил свои полномочия . Спасибо большое всем, кто помогал нам с этим делом: информацией, переводами, распространением и просто добрым словом. ...





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A Clearer View of the Space Bullet That Grazed Russia

By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Crowd-sourced video, information from Google Earth and data from nuclear test-ban sensors provided information about a small asteroid that exploded last month near Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Scientists now have a more accurate picture of the small asteroid that exploded near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk last month.

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For Homesick Russian Tycoon, Instant of Ruin Came in Court

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Boris A. Berezovsky, center, in London last August after he lost a $5.1 billion lawsuit against a former associate. Facing millions in legal bills, he began to divest himself of the assets he had acquired so proudly.
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Page 1 - "ИЗБРАННЫЕ МЕСТА ИЗ NEПЕРЕПИСКИ С ПРОСТОФИЛЕЙ" REVIEW: RUSSIA AND THE WEST: NEWS AND OPINIONS - РОССИЯ И ЗАПАД: НОВОСТИ И МНЕНИЯ: NOVEMBER 2009 - SEPTEMBER 2011


"ИЗБРАННЫЕ МЕСТА ИЗ NEПЕРЕПИСКИ С ПРОСТОФИЛЕЙ"

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RUSSIA AND THE WEST: NEWS AND OPINIONS - РОССИЯ И ЗАПАД: НОВОСТИ И МНЕНИЯ:

NOVEMBER 2009 - SEPTEMBER 2011


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via Russia and The West: News and Opinions - Россия и Запад: Новости и Мнения by mikenova on 11/2/09
 Russian elections October 11, 2009 – Выборы в России 11 Октября, 2009 Ноябрь 4, 2009 — mikenova Как моя жена научилась щи варить Прихожу вчера домой, ни слова сказать не могу, один хрип из горла прёт. И вдруг понял: я же сегодня мимо школы проходил, где избирательный участок; тот самый, где голоса воруют. Никак, украли! …Склонился кто-то знакомый надо мной, [...]

via Russia and The West: News and Opinions - Россия и Запад: Новости и Мнения by mikenova on 11/7/09
Capitalism made a full comeback in Russia and did so with the beastly vengeance. Уголовно-тоталитарная система сталинского национал-социализма пришла к своему логическому завершению в сегодняшней системе национал-криминокапитализма. Trotsky’s prophecy came true. Here are some momentos and food for thoughts. October Revolution pictures and cartoons:                     Троцкий о реставрации капитализма  Самое интересное в журнале ["Бюллетень [...]

via Russia and The West: News and Opinions - Россия и Запад: Новости и Мнения by mikenova on 11/8/09
Неподалеку от «Авроры» и Троицкой площади, в Музее политической истории России, открылась выставка «Лев Революции», приуроченная к 130-летию со дня рождения одного из руководителей Октябрьского переворота в Петрограде Льва Троцкого. Куратор выставки Александр Смирнов напомнил, что имя Троцкого в полной мере было возвращено российским историкам 20 лет назад, когда появились первые серьезные исследовательские труды о [...]

via Russia and The West: News and Opinions - Россия и Запад: Новости и Мнения by mikenova on 11/8/09
о котором следовало бы снимать фильмы и писать романы. Во всяком случае, его биография очень пестрая. Вообще он сам, наверное, осознавал эту особенность своей биографии, сказав однажды: «Моя жизнь это то, что другие видят только в кино». Смерть авантюриста Калмановича | ИноСМИ – Все, что достойно перевода [...]

via Russia and The West: News and Opinions - Россия и Запад: Новости и Мнения by mikenova on 11/8/09
Следственный комитет и ФСБ сообщили о раскрытии убийства адвоката Станислава Маркелова и корреспондента "Новой газеты" Анастасии Бабуровой. Следствие считает, что громкое убийство совершили 29-летний Никита Тихонов и 24-летняя Евгения Хасис. Оба – участники националистической группировки. Национальный экстремизм – это, пожалуй, едва ли не самая большая угроза для России. http://www.vesti.ru/videos?vid=248654      "Вести недели" 05 ноября 2009 г.  20:05 Следствие: убийцы [...]

via Russia and The West: News and Opinions - Россия и Запад: Новости и Мнения by mikenova on 11/8/09
Из глубин его души не рвется наружу кагэбэшно-уголовная феня. Он, несомненно, порядочный человек, и идеалы у него – самые благородные. Могло бы быть значительно хуже, и я даже не уверен, что мы заслуживаем такого президента. И требовать от него радикальных шагов, которые действительно очень рискованны и могут даже оказаться политически самоубийственными, нельзя.   09.11.2009 | идеи и люди Дмитрий [...]

via Russia and The West: News and Opinions - Россия и Запад: Новости и Мнения by mikenova on 3/14/10
If the people are to feel and act like citizens, there is only one prescription: democracy, including the rule of law and an open and honest dialogue between the government and the people. What’s holding Russia back is fear. Among both the people and the authorities, there is concern that a new round of modernization [...]

via Russia and The West: News and Opinions - Россия и Запад: Новости и Мнения by mikenova on 3/15/10
Перестройка, или серия политических и экономических реформ, предпринятых мною в Советском Союзе в 1985 году, до сих пор является предметом ожесточенных споров. Сегодня эта полемика стала по-новому актуальной, и не просто в связи с 25-й годовщиной перестройки, но и потому что Россия вновь сталкивается с вызовом перемен. В такие моменты уместно и необходимо посмотреть [...]

via Russia and The West: News and Opinions - Россия и Запад: Новости и Мнения by mikenova on 3/15/10
Михаил Горбачев, получивший в наследство руководство СССР двадцать пять лет назад на этой неделе, сам того не желая столкнулся с тем, как его политика гласности опрокинула карточный домик коммунизма. В то время как Россия вновь усиливает контроль над информацией, стоит вспомнить события, увековечивающие величие г-на Горбачева и являющиеся предостережением против возвращения к “официальной действительности”. [...]


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Political Assassinations: Chavez Knew US Special Services Were After Him - Center for Research on Globalization


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Political Assassinations: Chavez Knew US Special Services Were After Him
Center for Research on Globalization
It brings to mind a WikiLeaks post –the document with State Department instructions to the US embassy in Paraguay to stealthily get DNA of the four candidates for presidency. It mentioned all ... The Patient's name undisclosed, the samples were sent to ...
Police and indians fight by Maracana stadiumVOXXI

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Россия заняла третье место по числу прошений об убежище в Евросоюзе в 2012 году - via Каспаров.Ru


via Каспаров.Ru on 3/25/13
Россия заняла третье место по числу прошений об убежище в Евросоюзе в 2012 году. Ее незначительно обогнали Афганистан и Сирия.
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Georgian Parliament Amends Constitution, Curbs Presidential Powers - via Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty


via Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty on 3/25/13
The constitutional amendments remove the president's right to fire or appoint a prime minister or cabinet without the parliament's approval, and is seen as a breakthrough that could lower tensions between President Mikheil Saakashvili and Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.
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WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation denied a report on Monday that it had detained Roman Abramovich


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Russian billionaire and owner of Chelsea football club Abramovich gives a thumbs-up before the Group D Euro 2012 soccer match between Ukraine and England at Donbass Arena in DonetskWASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation denied a report on Monday that it had detained Roman Abramovich, the Russian metals tycoon who owns London's Chelsea soccer club. "We didn't arrest him. It's just not true," an FBI spokeswoman said in response to an unsourced report by Russia's RBK financial news portal that Abramovich had been held in the United States. ...
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Russian officials raid Amnesty's Moscow headquarters - The Guardian


via The Moscow Times Top Stories by The Associated Press <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> on 3/24/13
Russian prosecutors and tax police searched the Moscow headquarters of Amnesty International and several other rights groups Monday, continuing a wave of pressure that activists say is part of President Vladimir Putin's attempt to stifle dissent.



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Russian officials search Amnesty Intl office in Moscow as pressure on NGOs ...
Edmonton Journal
MOSCOW - Russian prosecutors and tax police searched the Moscow headquarters of Amnesty International and several other rights groups Monday, continuing a wave of pressure that activists say is part of President Vladimir Putin's attempt to stifle ...

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The Guardian
Russian officials raid Amnesty's Moscow headquarters
The Guardian
Russian prosecutors and tax police have searched the Moscow headquarters of Amnesty International and several other rights groups, continuing a wave of pressure that activists say is part of President Vladimir Putin's attempt to stifle dissent. Sergei ...
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Президент РФ Владимир Путин 26-27 марта в южно-африканском Дурбане на саммите БРИКС обсудит с лидерами государств-участниц оздоровление международной экономической ситуации, положение в Сирии, Иране и на Ближнем Востоке - РИА Новости


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Путин на саммите БРИКС обсудит экономику, встретится с президентом ЮАР//
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Президент РФ Владимир Путин 26-27 марта в южно-африканском Дурбане на саммите БРИКС обсудит с лидерами государств-участниц оздоровление международной экономической ситуации, положение в Сирии, Иране и на Ближнем Востоке, а на переговорах с коллегой из ЮАР ...
Путин отправляется с визитом в ЮАР, где также примет участие в саммите БРИКС - КремльИТАР-ТАСС
В.Путин проведет в Дурбане встречу с премьер-министром Индии.РБК - RBC.Ru
Путин призвал сплотиться «пятерку» союзниковНТВ.ru
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“negative trends” emanating from Russia - via homophobia russia - Google News


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And the demographic clincher: 81 per cent of American adults under 30 back full equality. The opposition, concentrated among seniors, is dying away.
But as Americans drive the issue home, the question of what it means to the bigger world is emerging. The answer? Perhaps not as much as hoped.
“The sheer speed of change in America is astonishing. But translating that into progress elsewhere remains daunting because the very thing that moved Americans — the argument of basic human rights and fairness — tends to backfire in many other parts of the world,” says Evelyne Paradis, executive director of ILGA Europe, a major LGBT advocacy group.
Paradis, a Montrealer, works in partnership with grassroots gay-rights organizations in more than 40 countries, largely against “negative trends” emanating from Russia. She describes a pattern of rising support for homophobic groups throughout the former Soviet Union, aided by overseas outreach from a loose network of Christian evangelical organizations.
“In the past year we’ve really begun to connect the dots. In Ukraine last spring for our Day Against Homophobia, we saw busloads of people arriving for counter-demonstrations, chanting religious slogans and extreme right-wing political slogans from Russia. We see a similar pattern in Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and, of course, in Russia.”
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Groups like the U.S.-based Alliance Defending Freedom, says Paradis, have established a foothold in Europe to advocate strongly against abortion and LGBT rights.
“The problem for national LGBT activists is that if they raise the human rights argument that has been so powerful in America, it gets thrown back in their faces — ‘You are just part of the western world, forcing outside values on us,’” she says.
“The human rights argument works — but it works where a culture of human rights has been built over decades and people have slowly gotten used to what the concept of equality means, whether on racism or from a women’s perspective.
“In places like Georgia and Armenia, the activists can’t talk about human rights. They tell us, ‘People don’t get it, they don’t care, they don’t understand these arguments.’
“They have much more success in getting through to people by reclaiming the language of the home country — talking about family, values, tradition and redefining those ideas as empowered national voices, coming from within, rather than from outside. That’s where we see some real hope that attitudes can change for the better.”
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But gay-rights campaigners also point to glimmers beyond the grim. In Venezuela, the battle to succeed Hugo Chavez includes this pronouncement from candidate Henrique Capriles: “I believe in a society without exclusion . . . where no one feels excluded by race, creed, social status, sexual orientation.”
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But nothing quite captured the shifting zeitgeist like Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, Mitt Romney’s old debate coach, who stunned his fellow Republicans with a full-throated endorsement of marriage equity last week, revealing in the same breath that his son Will is gay. That simple fact “prompted me to consider the issue from another perspective,” Portman wrote in The Columbus Dispatch. “That of a dad who wants all three of his kids to lead happy, meaningful lives with the people they love.”
Portman’s declaration baffled many on the right and met with a bashing from many on the left, who labelled his reasoning “selfish.” But the Portman saga, perhaps more than any other, mirrors the million-plus points of light that have shifted so many American attitudes, sister by sister, son by son, brother by brother.
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“This is a long game, but an important game. We’re not saying Canada should do this on its own. But with major partners that know this work . . . the opportunity is there to let our public servants do the good work they trained for at the precise moment it is most needed.”
Mitch Potter&#x2019;s last World Weekly story was on N.Y. Mayor Michael Bloomberg.




via homophobia - Google News on 3/22/13
The role of art in addressing racism, hate and homophobia
Canada.com
The public is invited to attend "ART TALK: engage" at the Comox Valley Art Gallery this Saturday March 23, from 2pm - 3: 30pm. Admission is free or by donation. This talk will be a community panel discussing the themes from the current exhibition ...


via homophobia russia - Google News on 3/23/13

Toronto Star

Gay marriage: Why America is leading the global rainbow divide
Toronto Star
Paradis, a Montrealer, works in partnership with grassroots gay-rights organizations in more than 40 countries, largely against “negative trends” emanating from Russia. She describes a pattern of rising support for homophobic groups throughout the ...

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"Look Down With Favor on My Lowliness" - Alfeyev presented the Pope Francis with a Spanish edition of Patriarch Kirill's book, titled "Freedom and Responsibility," and a gift from the Russian Orthodox Church: an image of the Mother of God icon... - The Moscow Times


Russian Orthodox Church Envoy Gives Pope Mother of God Icon

22 March 2013 | Issue 5093
The Moscow Times

Pope Francis, who met with representatives of a dozen faiths Wednesday, speaking with Metropolitan Hilarion.
Osservatore Romano / AP
Pope Francis, who met with representatives of a dozen faiths Wednesday, speaking with Metropolitan Hilarion.

An envoy of the Russian Orthodox Church has met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, where he presented him with the Mother of God icon and expressed hope that ties between the two churches would continue to improve, the Orthodox Church's official website said.
During the meeting on Wednesday, Hilarion Alfeyev, the metropolitan of Volokolamsk and chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, extended warm greetings and gratitude for prayers from Patriarch Kirill, saying the head of the Russian church had closely followed the election and enthronement of the new pope.
Alfeyev presented the Pope Francis with a Spanish edition of Patriarch Kirill's book, titled "Freedom and Responsibility," and a gift from the Russian Orthodox Church: an image of the Mother of God icon, called "Look Down With Favor on My Lowliness."
He noted that Pope Francis' "first steps after the election were marked by lowliness and humility," Interfax reported. Pope Francis replied that he lacked humility and asked for prayers to grant it to him.
Alfeyev said that the Moscow Patriarchate shared Pope Francis' concern for the poor and suffering, and that this shared compassion creates new opportunities for cooperation between the two churches.
He informed the pope of existing problems between the two churches and said he hoped that the inter-church relations that improved under Pope Benedict XVI would further strengthen.
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The news was filled today with the vote in the democratic gulag called the Kremlin that all but one vote was caste to bring into law restrictions on minorities which will impact the gay and lesbian community. A deeply conservative move backed and promoted by the Russian Orthodox Church.
We shouldn’t be surprised.
When the Berlin wall came down one of the recurrent themes of the commentators on the newly emerging countries was that they were stuck with pre-second-world war value systems. Still infected with anti-semitic leanings, still male dominated and they broke down into the ‘strong man’ leaders who had been the bullies of the communist regime hiding out in the secret police.
Russia will pull out the doldrums but it will take a while and while it does so the church will make people’s lives hell because that is what the narrow thinking of  biblical bigots always does. Enlightenment is not about facts and figures and the sudden inrush of scientific illumination, but the understanding that compassion glues society together more strongly that religion. That two men holding hands in public are not a threat any more than anal sex with a woman in partially a homosexual act.
There are at least twenty gender differentiations in the species. You can’t vote any away.

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