Russia hasn't changed

[the2real4mafol]

mai said:

Vandalism is by no means a serious crime, and yes, yet another swastika guy in the US got quite a lot for this kind of crime. Criminal Code of RF has this for vandalism:

...наказывается штрафом в размере до сорока тысяч рублей или в размере заработной платы или иного дохода осужденного за период до трех месяцев, либо обязательными работами на срок до трехсот шестидесяти часов, либо исправительными работами на срок до одного года, либо арестом на срок до трех месяцев.

Up to $1300 charge, work up to 360 hours or sentence up to 3 months. So yeah, that's a LOT by our standards.

Girls got their 2 years out of 7 possible years as it stated in article 214, p.2 of Criminal Code. Granted they were prosecuted in hooliganism, not vandalism, meaning it's more serious shit. Though in old 1960 RSFSR code all of them would have been prosecuted in hooliganism (no vandalism article at the time) with max sentence up to 1 year (yeah, modern editions are far more severe than Soviet ones, which pretty much obvious by how prison population went up, nothing comparable to American heights though, lol).

It's quite suprising that your laws are tougher now then they were under the soviet union, i'm very suprised. It's good they only got 2 years but i don't think they should of been jailed at all, it don't help that they happened to be criticising Putin to be honest. For what they did, in that church, they should of got a big fine and some community service. As i don't see how vandalism or even hooliganism is worthy of time in jail, when there are far more serious crimes. At least, pussy riot did not get the 7 years!!