Western hypocrisy on Pussy Riot

Indeed, hypocrisy can be pretty hypocritical sometimes.  Britain has no constitution therefore no constitutional protection of free speech.  And even in the U.S., accredited journalists are arrested with impunity simply for doing their job.  Check it out here.

By the way, the punk performance in an Orthodox Church during services was not the first time one of the Pussy Riot girls, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, engaged in some shocking political theater in an unexpected and inappropriate place, as The Exiled reminds us.

Well, at least it was in a biology museum, not a church.

The west's hypocrisy over Pussy Riot is breathtaking

By Simon Jenkins

August 21, 2012 | Guardian

URL: http://gu.com/p/39qap

Russian journalists reported on plant explosion, face jail

Don't you love the New Russia, so much like the Old Russia?

Eerily reminiscent of the Kursk tragedy at the beginning of the Putin Era, in this hydroelectric plant there's a chance that dozens are still alive, trapped in an underground room, but they might as well be dead because the Russian authorities don't want to attract any more media attention to the accident.

It's useful to know that if another Chornobyl disaster happened today, the Russian authorities' reaction wouldn't be much different: cover it up, and if anybody talks, throw 'em in jail.

Journalists face jail for blogging on Russia explosion

August 21, 2009 | Committee to Protect Journalists

URL: http://cpj.org/2009/08/online-journalist-faces-jail-for-reporting-on-russ.php