Oh, just think that he made human rights and justice system almost non existent in Russia. That's a major turn off for many.

I do not speak as if I know them, but two of them have small children and having read their interviews and interviews with their parents, there was no impression that they wanted to get in jail for that and that the penal system was their target.

They did, but not to this extent, because they got put behind bars for something that barely lasted a minute and did not involve neither smoke bombs, nor public masturbation. I do not think they hoped for this much public attention either. I see their performance as an attempt to bring attention to the problems in the…

It also so happens, that to be charged for hooliganism according to the Russian criminal code, there should have been property or material damage, and there was exactly none.

It is strange, to hear that people should be prosecuted for what they were saying, provided, there was no hate speech or death threats. It is even stranger to hear a person quote article from Yale law almost in the same breath. The fact that they did this in a tyrannical state should not change an opinion on freedom…

What they did prior, should not be an issue in this particular case. Yes, I am well aware that they have little public support, mostly due to hysterical coverage from the state media, stressing the blasphemy angle, which until a few days ago was not punishable by law. I will have a look at the article, but what they…

No, the whole point was, that they had to use the criminal article, that did not apply to what they did! If you could see the trial, it was such a travesty! The prosecution had a witness, that was claiming that due to blasphemy, she could not eat and sleep any more properly! The prosecution did not say anything about…

Absolutely unlawful. And many procedures and laws were broken by the state during the trial. It is appalling. http://open.salon.com/blog/snowball9…

It is much worse and more than that, human rights advocates, who work with prisoners, put a number of unjustly convicted people in dozens of thousands. And I am talking about cases, that have enough documents to prove their innocence, yet they still serve many years and do not get any appeals.

I am pretty sure they sew things either for other prisoners or for the army.

No, they did not clearly break the law. There is no criminal article of law to charge them with for singing in a church for two minutes, between services, during the day, when there were actually just a few people there. They might have broken administrative regulations of the cathedral, but for breaking an…

No, it is not because they are photogenic white women. It is because their case is an indication of Russia slipping into full scale tyranny and there are lots of Russians who want to prevent that. They shouted about this case everywhere and fortunately they were heard.

What concerns me, where is the line and who gets to draw it? To me it seems, that when wearing Bindi is not OK leads straight to Muhammad cartoons causing riots. Yes, tiny things not being OK to say/do about religion do lead to not being able to breath a word of criticism. And riots because of cartoons are not a…

You might be right about this one. )

Why Kristen Stewart is still bearing the full blame for those kisses? There were two people kissing, the guy is much older, why is he not being called a jerk every single day???

Wow. Is there a pic of McGyvered armadillos? I am in an awe.

They are not pro-life, they are pro-punishment for women they consider sluts. And they are very much pro-death for some of those women, because laws like that will result in women's deaths.

One word. Whedongasm.

Why hate Facebook? Not everyone is using it for pure time wasting and reposts of cat and baby pictures. A lot of charitable and human rights projects are possible thanks to FB connecting people. So cut the hate. Facebook is just a tool.

I hate it when journalists take a lazy approach to names. For me it is particularly noticeable with tennis. Come on, the journalists depend on the players to make news, so why is it so hard to learn names? Why can't anybody say "Agnieszka"? It is not a very difficult name, once you've heard it pronounced correctly…