![]() ![]() None of these people have any relevant remaining connection with or investment into Russia, even the Qanon Jew is using it as a blank slate for his own domestic American complexes as opposed to having any vision of Russia’s future as a civilizational pole. Well, I think this sort of proves the point, really. Ironically the only hardcore pro-Putin person I know now is a Russian-Jewish eccentric who had bought a lot of the QAnon stuff. I attribute this in part to eastern Ukrainian Russian-speakers from places like Kharkiv, who mix socially with ethnic Russians and tell them what their loved ones are going through. It’s like the Trump anti-Trump stuff among Americans but even more intense and more sudden ( it doesn’t reflect decades of sorting). ![]() I know some who no longer speak to family in Russia, there have been bitter arguments about it among friends in the USA at barbecues. We know a few who had left Central Asia who had been very pro-Putin before but have changed. Also I don’t think sentiments were as anti-Putin among non-Jewish ethnic Russian emigrants from the republics. That’s true in general, most of the Russians I socialise with in the USA are non-Jewish, except for two couples. They were never Russia patriots to begin with. Literally half of them are Jews, and their precincts abroad voted 80-90% against Putin throughout the 2010s. Prosecutors said they had both deliberately conspired to discredit the Russian military. He had also tried to start the council meeting with a moment's silence to remember the victims.Īnother opposition councillor who supported his remarks has since fled Russia. The opposition councillor was arrested in late April, more than a month after he addressed a district meeting in the Krasnoselsky area of north-east Moscow.Īt the meeting Gorinov objected to the idea of a children's drawing contest being held when children were dying in Ukraine. Gorinov was arrested several weeks after addressing the council meeting in mid-March Judge Olesya Mendeleyeva ruled he had carried out his crime "based on political hatred" and had misled Russians, prompting them to "feel anxiety and fear" about the military campaign.Īppearing in court in northern Moscow, Gorinov held up a piece of paper with words he had written in pen: "Do you still need this war?" A security official held up his hands to try to obscure the message. If the likes of Ben Garrison were painting anti-war themed cartoons they would risk getting years jail time in RF these days:Ī Moscow councillor has been jailed for seven years for speaking out against Russia's war in Ukraine - in what is said to be the first full jail term under new laws targeting dissent.Īlexei Gorinov, 60, was arrested in April after he was filmed criticising the invasion in a city council meeting. ![]()
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