OK then... But, you know, 'When in Rome do as the Romans do'. So i don't think its a wise move to treat a case happened in Russia according to the US law...

So conditional sentence (the most probable result of the trial, practically you're getting criminal record and good to go) for "incitement to ethnic or racial hatred", desecration of ceremony and public humiliaton is worse than month and a half in jail for only trespassing the territory and years in jail for some graffiti in synagogue? Riiight. Really, why the excuses? Just admit it, armed only with Google I could bury you under these kind of precedents :D

 //Though I've figured out it already, that if it'd have happened in synagogue, social consciousness would have stayed dormant. Half of "church desecration" incidents that ends with real sentences in the US took place in synagouges :D Well, unless it doesn't involve killing people like recent story with Sikhs.

Шару, да нишиша они не получат. 3 года условно -- максимум. Вон Леонтьев, когда трезвый, умный мысли говорит, да: http://www.odnako.org/blogs/show_20184/ :D Ей-богу, как дети малые, Ленина и Шарпа не читают -- поддаются на дешевые провокации.

Давно же известно, что наш суд самый гуманный в мире :D

//Но больше всего вставляет реакция американчиков и иже с ними :D Это вообще детский сад - штаны на лямка. Каз по местным меркам интеллектуал. Кроме шуток, с ним хотя бы общаться можно.

Yes?

Singing a song at a public ceremony isn't really that big of a deal compaired to breaking into someone elses property and messing up their shit without their permission.

It's like asking what's worse, someone shouting at a public official or throwing a brick through the window of a buisness or breaking into someones house.

How you'd think the first is remotely worse... is silly.

Also... most destruction of religious property is of jewish property.  Hence why it's persecuted the most.

Almost nobody messes up Christian Churches and while it happenes more freaquently to mosques, it's not nearly as often as synogogues.

As for the Sikh temple incident, I still have no idea what that was about.  Don't know why would have something against them.

Yes, Kaz, yes.

Pls, spare me these talks over nothing. Let's get back to the topic when the trial is finished, ok? I'd bet anything they won't get more than conditional sentence, i.e. nothing. So it's still quadrillion times more than real jail sentence for swastika in synagogue.

Russia is back tracking. Think I heard Putin favours a political union with Belarus. He really is trying to bring back the USSR.

Good article on the russian situation :

http://www.economist.com/node/21528596

"Those who want to go abroad often have higher material standards of living than their peers in the West. They are looking for things they cannot buy: recognition of achievements, protection of property rights, physical safety, a functioning health service, a proper education for their children. They want to live a life which does not involve paying bribes, or losing one's business for political reasons, or being jailed at the whim of a corrupt bureaucrat."

Most worrying of all is that those less educated who stay will increasingly inflate the statistics of "emotional" citizens :

"34% of Russians “want to shoot” those they blame for their troubles"

I'll have a stab at guessing. Racist killer reckons they are Taliban Muslims.

Looks like at least half of that is right.  Guy was a white supremsist.

Funny part?   A lot of white supremsist groups denounced the killings.

Lately White supremsist groups have tried to "legitamize" themselves... while still hating people of other races.  Dunno how they expect that one to work.

It's probably what most Russians are used to as well, as most people there still remember what the USSR was like