Russia hasn't changed

[Badassbab]

mai said:

Badassbab said:
I'm not condoning the Russian (Putin dominated) judicial system and the over the top jail sentence but Pussy Riot do tend to enjoy attracting attention for no apparent reason other than I guess to push more sales of their records.

Before the current anti-Putin protest in the Cathedral , they had an orgy in a museum, performed a sex act with a chicken in a supermarket and successfully kissed a female security officer without her consent (who then punched the band member in the face for trying).

*facepalm*

If it was Putin-dominated, how the f**k  the whole deal has happened? Why he needs such publicity? And to the best of my knowledge they don't have any records, they're the kind of artists who piss on a carpet and call it performance.

When I say Putin dominated, I mean Putin and all his cronies

History

On 25 May 2001, President Putin proposed the Federal Law "On Amending the Federal Law On the Status of Judges In the Russian Federation",^[23] which was passed by the Duma, and signed by President Putin on 15 December 2001. The law introduced disciplinary and administrative responsibility for judges.

Constitutional Court Judge Vladimir Yaroslavtsev, in a 2009 interview with the Spanish newspaper El País, claimed that the presidential executive office andsecurity services had undermined judicial independence in Russia.^[24] In October the Constitutional Court in an unprecedented motion accused Yaroslavtsev of "undermining the authority of the judiciary" in violation of the judicial code and forced him to resign from the Council of Judges. Judge Anatoly Kononov, who had frequently dissented from decisions taken by the majority of the court, in his interview to Sobesednik supported Yaroslavtsev, claiming that there was no independent judiciary in Russia.^[25] Kononov was forced to step down from the Constitutional Court on 1 January 2010, seven years ahead of schedule.^[26][27][28]