Russia, the Federation of Feels

**Kuya** · 2013-06-11 22:23

MOSCOW: Russia has passed a bill imposing jail terms of up to three years on those who offend religious believers after an anti-Vladimir Putin stunt by punk band Pussy Riot in a church polarised the predominantly Orthodox country last year.

According to the bill passed in a 308 to two final vote, "public actions expressing clear disrespect for society and committed with the goal of offending religious feelings of the faithful" would be punishable with jail terms of up to one year in prison and fines of up to 300,000 rubles ($A9750).

The same actions committed in churches and other places of worship would be punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of up to 500,000 rubles.

Among other forms of punishment to be meted out for the transgressions are compulsory community service and forced labour.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/new-l...612-2o35c.html

The church needed protecting from all those mean atheist and gay bullies.

**Plow** · 2013-06-11 22:32

308-2? Really?

What the fuck?

**archibaldcrane** · 2013-06-11 22:41

Um, how about this?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...95A0GE20130611

(Reuters) - Russia's lower house passed a law on Tuesday banning gay "propaganda", a measure that human rights groups say has already fuelled attacks on homosexuals as President Vladimir Putin pursues an increasingly conservative social agenda.

As parliament debated the bill, gay activists who had taken part in a "kissing protest" outside parliament to demonstrate against the law were harassed and pelted with eggs by anti-gay protesters, then about 20 of them were arrested.

The law bans the spreading of "propaganda for non-traditional sexual relations" to minors and sets heavy fines for violations. It passed with 436 votes in the 450-seat lower house, the Duma. One deputy abstained and no one voted against.

"Traditional sexual relations are relations between a man and a woman, which ... are a condition for the preservation and development of the multi-ethnic Russian people," lawmaker Yelena Mizulina told the chamber.

"It is precisely these relations that need special protection by the state," she said.

Critics say the bill - a nationwide version of laws already in place in several cities including Putin's hometown of St Petersburg - would in effect ban all gay rights rallies and could be used to prosecute anyone voicing support for homosexuals.

"There is already enough pressure and violence against gays, and with this law it will only continue and probably get worse," said Viktoria Malyasova, 18, standing outside the Duma.

"I may not be gay but I came to stand up for my rights and the rights of other people to love whom they want," she said.

HOMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE

There are no official figures on anti-gay crime in Russia, but in an online poll last year, 15 percent of about 900 gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender respondents said they had been physically attacked at least once in the previous 10 months.

Putin, who has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church as a moral authority and harnessed its influence as a source of political support, has championed socially conservative values since starting a new, six-year term in May 2012.

The gay rights protesters outside the Duma on Tuesday were far outnumbered by around 200 anti-gay activists who surrounded them, chanting "Russia is not Sodom", singing Orthodox Christian prayers, crossing themselves and throwing rotten eggs.

After scuffles in which one man was knocked to the ground and kicked by the anti-gay activists, police began detaining the gay protesters and bundling them into waiting buses.

Moscow police said about 20 people were detained.

Investigators say homophobia was the motive for the brutal murders of two men in the past month, one in eastern Russia and one in the southern city of Volgograd.
The 60-year-old president denies that there is discrimination against gays, but has criticized them for failing to increase Russia's population, which has declined sharply since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The Duma passed another law on Tuesday that made the insulting of religious feelings a crime punishable by up to three years in prison - a measure proposed after last year's Pussy Riot protest at a Moscow cathedral.

Two members of the feminist performance group are serving two-year jail sentences for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" after a trial that drew international criticism.

Both bills still need the approval of the upper house, and Putin's signature.

**Ksandra** · 2013-06-11 22:49

The 60-year-old president denies that there is discrimination against gays, but has criticized them for failing to increase Russia's population, which has declined sharply since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

amazing

**Abandon** · 2013-06-11 22:52

ROFL

**Abandon** · 2013-06-11 22:53

"if the faggots cant give me citizens, they will give me extra money to compensate!"

**Kuya** · 2013-06-11 22:55

Originally Posted by archibaldcrane

Um, how about this?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...95A0GE20130611

Check this out:

The investigation informed news agencies that before killing Vlad, his attackers had "stripped the victim naked and set about forcing beer bottles into his rear passage. Two bottles went in whole, but the third only halfway. By this time the victim was already unconscious. His torturers placed cardboard boxes under his body and set them on fire, after which they decided to go back to their respective homes. They realised on the way that if he regained consciousness, he would call the police. They turned back, and one of them brought a rock weighing about 20 kilos which he brought down eight times on the victim's head."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...d-to-terrorism

**Ksandra** · 2013-06-11 22:55

Russia is like number one (citation needed) for adopting their kids to US citizens. BUT IT'S THE GAYS.

**Charismatic** · 2013-06-11 23:15

Russia sounds like a paradise.

**kuronosan** · 2013-06-12 00:12

Russians are leaving Russia because they love the country and hate the politics.

Then they come here.

**mightyg** · 2013-06-12 01:06

We have a bunch of Russian interns at my workplace and I feel for em. Really nice kids. Makes me grateful that for all the crap the U.S. argues over at least we're not dealing with stuff like this.

**Niiro** · 2013-06-12 02:12

It's like the way we look at Russia must be like how Western Europe looks at us.

**Kuya** · 2013-06-12 05:41

The Russian Parliament today passed a law banning “propaganda” about gay people, hoping the measure will prevent the country’s children from becoming gay. But according to photos of violent clashes between pro- and anti-gay activists at Duma headquarters in Moscow this morning, many Russian tweens have already made up their mind about gay rights. They are against them.

The disconcerting images from photographer Ilya Varlamov above show young children kicking, beating and chasing some activists protesting the new bill. Local police seemed to encourage the violence, stepping on the throat of one person and wrestling others to the ground in an unfriendly manner.

During the melee, an unidentified Duma official from the Communist Party approached and shook hands with a policeman, and reportedly said: “So are you guys ramping up the pressure on these faggots? Beat them up well! Cut their balls off!” The anti-gay crowd also threw bottles and rotten eggs at the activists, who were surrounded by an antagonistic crowd of about 200 people.

http://www.vocativ.com/06-2013/cut-t...hts-activists/

**Ashmada** · 2013-06-12 07:15

christianity, a fucking plague on humanity for more than 2 millenia.
A strain (catholicism) is on the decline, another (orthodoxy) resurges, more vile and purulent than ever, it's all so disenhearting.

**Kuya** · 2013-06-12 07:20

Originally Posted by Ksandra

amazing

they always deny there is discrimination. They did the same thing here. This, while in public hearings they were arguing that not being able to fire someone for being gay violated their religious beliefs.

**Athas** · 2013-06-12 10:14

Thanks Russia, even after the cold war we'll always have you guys to look better by comparison.

**Ksandra** · 2013-06-12 10:37

Originally Posted by Kuya

they always deny there is discrimination. They did the same thing here. This, while in public hearings they were arguing that not being able to fire someone for being gay violated their religious beliefs.

the amazing part was about the guy saying how dare the gays lower our population.

**Brill Weave** · 2013-06-12 10:50

Russia gonna Russia

**ronin sparthos** · 2013-06-12 11:06

Hopefully some Americans take this news as a cautionary tale on what happens when power consolidators and conservative leaders get the reins of power.

**Ksandra** · 2013-06-12 11:09

Originally Posted by ronin sparthos

Hopefully some Americans take this news as a cautionary tale on what happens when power consolidators and conservative leaders get the reins of power.

You assume that the average American is going to even hear about this. I'm at my in-laws atm, and fox news has basically been NSA crap 24/7

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