http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2012/08/05/pussy-riot-or-dixie-chicks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pussy-riot-or-dixie-chicks The FPA Global Affairs Blog Network Mon, 13 May 2013 19:18:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2012/08/05/pussy-riot-or-dixie-chicks/#comment-42625 John Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:09:48 +0000 http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=66304#comment-42625 Its not little hypocrisies so much as Nikitin’s perennial “whataboutism” that pervades his Russophilic interpretation of the Pussy Riot action. The girls have been in jail for 6 months and face 7 years in jail when activists like Udaltsov and Navalny got 15 days! Now a corrupt and biased Putinist judge is orchestrating a show-trial no better than that which convicted Mikhail Khodorkovsky. This just shows the Western world that maybe Russia really isn’t a part of what it would think is Europe, and rather like somewhere beyond the “Stans”.

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