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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The KGB Olympics: Russians Arrest 2 Pussy Rioters, Circassian Leader; Terrorist “Emir” Killed in Dagestan

FSB Arrest, Interrogate 2 Pussy Rioters in Sochi
In the latest dispatch from Sochi, Russia, site of the Winter Olympics, two members of the persecuted punk-rock protest band Pussy Riot were arrested today (February 18th) in downtown Sochi on supposed suspicion of theft at their hotel. (Pussy Riot was listed in this blog as no. 6 among “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games.”) News of the arrest came first via Twitter from Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. She was arrested along with her bandmate Maria Alyokhina and six others, including Semyon Simonov of the group Memorial, which provides legal aid to immigrant workers on Olympic construction projects. Tolokonnikova later told media that she and Alyokhina had been arrested the previous day as well as the day before. On those occasions they had been detained by the F.S.B., the dreaded successor to the Soviet-era K.G.B. secret police force, and interrogated for many hours. As Tolokonnikova tweeted, “We are in Sochi to hold a Pussy Riot action. The song is called ‘Putin Will Teach You to Love the Motherland””—and was meant to call attention to abuses that include last week’s arbitrary arrest of an environmental critic named Yevgeny Vitishko.

Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina with Madonna at an Amnesty International
event in New York last week

I.O.C. Turns Blind Eye to Environmentalist’s Labor-Camp Sentence

Meanwhile, the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) has responded to requests to look into Vitishko’s arrest (as reported earlier in this blog). The I.O.C. has decided that the labor-camp term for Yevgeny Vitishko, a critic of the Sochi games’ environmental impact, “is, and we think remains, a non-Olympic case,” in the words of the I.O.C.’s spokesman, Mark Adams. Makes sense: he was arrested for protesting the environmental impacts of Olympic construction; what could that possibly have to do with the Olympics? Oh, no, wait, he was technically arrested for “public profanity.” Well, that gives the I.O.C. an out; now they don’t have to offend their gracious hosts. Vitishko has been sentenced to three years in a labor camp.

Police look on as a protestor in Moscow demands
freedom for Yevgeny Vitishko.

Italian Transgender Politician Arrested at Sochi Park

But it’s not just Pussy Riot. On February 16th, police in Sochi arrested Vladimir Luxuria, a 48-year-old transgender television host and former member of Italy’s parliament, for unveiling a banner in a park reading, “Gay is okay,” in Russian. After being held overnight, she was released and then again arrested the next day entering the Olympic hockey arena wearing the gay-pride rainbow colors. Olympic officials denied the arrest. Luxuria was in Sochi to work on a television documentary on gay life in Russia. (The gay-rights issue in Russia was listed in this blog as no. 3 among “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games.”)

Vladimir Luxuria tweets from Sochi.

Russian Cops Nab Circassian Activist for “Hooliganism”

Arrests motivated by the more familiar ethnic politics of the North Caucasus and Black Sea region continue apace as well. A leading Circassian activist was arrested on the evening of February 14th in a move that is already being criticized internationally. The activist, Asker Sokht, who is considered a moderate, was last reported to be still in detention. He was arrested in Krasnodar Krai, the province which includes Sochi. His activities involved helping Circassian families fleeing Syria’s civil war resettle in Russia. He has been sentenced to eight days in jail for “hooliganism and disobeying police.”

Asker Sokht with the Circassian flag

Circassians lived for centuries in the Black Sea coastal area around Sochi until the mid 19th century, when the Russian Empire massacred and scattered most of them in what many call a genocide. Not quite a million Circassians remain in the Russian Federation today, while more live in a diaspora in Turkey, Syria, and elsewhere. For the most part, Circassian activists are non-violent, unlike radical Islamists such as the Caucasus Emirate movement, who often invoke the Circassians’ plight. Sokht is often seen, even, as a Kremlin ally. (The Circassians were listed in this blog as no. 2 among “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games.”)

Another Circassian activist, Adam Bogus, said from Maykop, capital of the Adyghe (i.e. Circassian Republic), a sliver of land surrounded by Krasnodar Krai where Circassians are a minority, “This is deeply sad for Circassians,” adding, “ This has led a great number of people to conclude that anybody who deals with the Circassian question—even the most loyal—will now be under pressure.” Sokht criticized last week’s Olympic opening ceremonies for not including any references to Circassians in the wide-ranging, pageant-like depiction of Russian history and culture. An open letter to Sokht’s captors from a Circassian activist group states, “It is clear that behind the alleged hooliganism or disobeying charge against him are his critical statements about the Olympics in Sochi.” On the day of the Sochi opening ceremonies, 37 Circassian demonstrators were arrested in Nalchik, capital of another nominally Circassian republic, the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, to the east (as reported at the time in this blog).

Twin solitudes: Olympic and Circassian emblems on display in Sochi

Russians Kill Chechen “Emir” at Dagestan Rail Station
Meanwhile, to the east in the Republic of Dagestan in the predominantly-Muslim eastern North Caucasus, a rebel fighter who called himself the “Emir of Gudermes,” was shot and killed in a shootout with police at a railway station in Sobachy, in the Khasavyurt district, it was reported on February 13th. Authorities described him as Sheykhakhmed Baysuyev, a 41-year-old originally from Chechnya also nicknamed “Foton” who was a member of the Aukhovskaya or the Khasavyurtovskaya rebel group. He has been on a Russian wanted list since 2005. Gudermes is a town in central Chechnya. It was not immediately clear if his use of an Ottoman-style title indicated that he was a member of the Caucasus Emirate movement. A previous “Emir of Gudermes,” Salman Temirbulatov, was a close associate of Aslan Maskhadov, who was rebel president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria during its period of de facto independence in the late 1990s, and later in exile. A later “Emir of Gudermes,” Said-Emin Hezriev, was killed in a shootout with police in Grozny, the Chechen capital, in 2009. That emir was associated with the Caucasus Emirate, as was another, Aslambek Vadalov. (The Caucasus Emirate was listed in this blog as no. 1 among “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games.”)

This is how Islamists view the area that includes Sochi.

Also over the weekend, according to the Caucasus Emirate’s own (often unreliable) Kavkaz Center website, fighting near Bamut, Yandi, and Sunzha in western Chechnya killed five members of the insurgent “Sever/North” gang and injured another 15, while two Russian soldiers were killed and a Russian military helicopter damaged.

[For those who are wondering, yes, this blog is tied in with my forthcoming book, a sort of encyclopedic atlas to be published by Auslander and Fox under the title Let’s Split! A Complete Guide to Separatist Movements, Independence Struggles, Breakaway Republics, Rebel Provinces, Pseudostates, Puppet States, Tribal Fiefdoms, Micronations, and Do-It-Yourself Countries, from Chiapas to Chechnya and Tibet to Texas. The book, which contains dozens of maps and over 500 flags, is now in the layout phase and should be on shelves, and available on Amazon, by early fall 2014. I will be keeping readers posted of further publication news. Meanwhile, please “like” the book (even though you haven’t read it yet) on Facebook.]

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Sochi Update: Earthquake Prayers, Racist Rings, Gay-Pride Flag Kerfuffles, Jailed Activists

Here is the latest news from the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, where politics is the most interesting spectator sport.

Islamists pray for Sochi earthquake
The Caucasus Emirate movement, which aims to separate the North Caucasus region, including Sochi, the site of this year’s Winter Olympics, as a separate Islamic state, is considered the greatest threat to the Games. The group’s Vilayat Dagestan subdivisions claimed responsibility for the recent lethal bus bombings in nearby Volgograd, and the group has promised to send Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, “a present” during the Olympics. But no concrete security threats have materialized. (The Caucasus Emirate was no. 1 in this blog’s list of “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games.”)

The imaginary Islamic state of the Caucasus Emirate includes a province (vilayat)
called Ġalġayçö, consisting of Ingushetia and predominantly-Christian North Ossetia.

On February 10th, however, the local branch of the Emirate for the Republic of Ingushetia, a Russian republic east of Sochi, veered toward the supernatural. An announcement on the Ingush branch’s website asked the faithful to pray for an earthquake to devastate Sochi during the Olympics. The Emirate movement, as well as more moderate Circassian nationalist groups, have condemned the Russian decision to hold the Games near the site of a genocide of predominantly-Muslim Circassians, exactly 150 years ago this year. (The Circassian genocide was no. 2 in this blog’s list of “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games.”)

Funeral for a policeman killed in the Islamist terrorist attack on Volgograd

The Emirate’s appeal read, in part, “All who are able to read this letter can supplicate that the Almighty destroys the land in Sochi with an earthquake, and makes the infidels ‘drunk of water’ before Hell and drown in a flood!” It added, “The Games of the atheists and pagans! The pigs are so arrogant that they decided to host the Games on the ground where our ancestors shed their blood to defend Islam and Muslims. Even the blind can see it!” The statement concluded, “May Allah give the infidels in Sochi the last earthquake of their lives.”

The Caucasus Emirate glee club

No seismic activity has as yet been detected.

Gay-pride flag raised—sort of
There was a brief kerfuffle after the Games’ opening ceremony on February 7th, when some international media openly interpreted the gloves worn by Greece’s national team as using differently colored fingers in reference to the gay-pride flag (technically, the LGBT flag). This was seen as a middle finger—a yellow middle finger!—to the host country, Russia, and its draconian anti-gay laws (which were no. 3 in this blog’s list of “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games”). Greece, after all, because of the openly homoerotic culture of ancient Athens, is practically synonymous in the wider world with homosexuality (we’ve all heard of Lesbos), though nowadays it is far tougher to be gay or lesbian in the Balkans than in northern Europe.

Greek officials pointed out, however, that the colored fingers corresponded to the five colors of the Olympic rings (see more below on that) and not the gay-pride flag. Germany’s team also wore rainbow colors in its opening-ceremony uniforms, but corresponding neither to the gay-pride or Olympic color arrays.

The most serious flag controversy of the Olympics so far, however, has been far from Sochi, in Calgary, Alberta, in Canada. There, the city has been divided over the question of whether to fly the gay pride flag during the Olympics. Many Canadian city halls are doing this as a protest of the Russian Federation’s new anti-gay legislation. These include those in Edmonton, Montreal, Quebec City, Regina, St. John’s, Toronto, Vancouver, and the national capital, Ottawa. The attack on Calgary’s use of the flag has been led by Jerry Joynt, a member of the Olympic organizing committee back in 1988, when Calgary hosted the Winter Olympics. Media have also lodged criticism. The mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi, has nonetheless defended the decision; which flags fly are ultimately his decision. When a city official took the occasion of Nenshi’s visit to a conference in London to announce that the flag was coming down, Nenshi telephoned from London to overrule him.

Calgary’s city hall

Alberta, often called “the Texas of Canada,” is the epicenter of fundamentalist religion and social conservatism in Canada—a country where religion otherwise, certainly when compared with the United States, plays very little role in public life. Nenshi, the first Muslim mayor of a major North American city, whose parents were members of Tanzania’s diaspora South Asian community, is locally regarded as very liberal and is a vocal champion of gay and transgender rights. His house was vandalized in 2010 on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and he has faced a barrage of criticism from extremist Christian activists.

Calgary’s mayor, Naheed Nenshi, is not your typical Albertan.

Ideally, Nenshi says, he would like the Olympic and gay-pride flags to fly side by side outside city hall. But any flying of the Olympic flag anywhere needs to be authorized by the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.), and they have not done so. Nenshi generously says that official permission must be bogged down by red tape, but is the real reason that the I.O.C. does not want to offend this year’s Olympic hosts by having the gay-pride and Olympic flags flying together in an Olympic city?

Calgary hosted the Olympics in 1988.
Shoulder pads, fringe—that was the ’80s.

And, of course, we are still awaiting word on whether anyone in Sochi has spotted the flag of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, a constituent unit of the Russian Federation—originally Josef Stalin’s Siberian dumping ground for troublesome Jews—whose flag so resembles the gay-pride flag that last year (as reported at the time in this blog) officials had to issue specific statements outlining their differences.

See? The J.A.O. flag has two different shades of purple. It’s totally different.

Russia puts racial categories back into Olympic symbol
Though there have been few flag kerfuffles in Sochi, there is some controversy over the way that Russia’s Olympic organizers have been displaying a monument in Sochi featuring the Olympic rings. The five rings representing the Olympics are generally assumed to represent the number of continents in popular conception at the time—and indeed European schoolchildren, for example, still learn that there are five continents. (To explain this to Americans: they lose Antarctica—no one lives there anyway—and merge North and South America.) While it is true that the number five was originally chosen to represent the continents, there is no truth in official Olympic rules or in original intent to what has by now become the common popular interpretation: that the different colors of the rings indicate which of the five continents they represent. The founder of the Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, intended the colors to represent the different colors in all of the flags represented at the first modern Games in 1896: “the blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Greece” (note: white is the Olympic flag’s background), “the tri colors of France, England, and America,” etc. (England’s flag is a two-colored St. George’s Cross: like most Frenchmen, the Baron did not know the difference between England and the United Kingdom, but never mind that.)

Nonetheless, the rings as they appear prominently on an Olympic monument in Sochi are labeled by continent: yellow is Asia, black is Africa, blue is Europe, green is Australia, and red are the Americas. This has caused some complaints. However, a similar official display at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, also featured continent-labeled rings.

Incorrect—though most people do not realize it

Georgia warns Olympic guests away from Abkhazia
The foreign ministry of the Republic of Georgia on February 12th asked visitors to the Winter Olympics not to visit the nearby Republic of Abkhazia, which functions as a Russian puppet state separate from Georgia but most of the world—other than Russia and four other nations—regards as Georgian territory. Russia and Georgia cut off diplomatic relations after a 2008 war in which Georgia tried to reclaim Abkhazia and another de facto independent puppet state, South Ossetia. Georgia came close to boycotting the Olympics this year. Georgia calls the Russian effort to lure Olympic tourists to Abkhazia “a provocation aimed at undermining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia.” But an I.O.C. spokesman, when asked about tourism to Abkhazia, said, “Why not?” He added, “ The talks and exchanges between the two governments, that’s entirely been to the two governments. In terms of going to Abkhazia ... well if it’s safe, people will go there.” (Abkhazia and South Ossetia were no. 5 in this blog’s list of “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games.”)

Environmental activist sent to labor camp
The public outcry over this week’s sentencing of Yevgeny Vitishko, a 40-year-old geologist critical of the environmental damage done by the Sochi Olympics, has increased in recent days. The I.O.C. has demanded an explanation, and Human Rights Watch (H.R.W.) has condemned the move as well.

Yevgeny Vitishko being arrested last week

Vitishko was first arrested in 2011 for “hooliganism” when he and other members of his group, Environmental Watch on North Caucasus, broke through an illegal fence erected in a public forest. When the activists discovered evidence of illegal logging of protected species, some members of the group spraypainted on the fence, “This is our forest.” The trouble was, the fence was considered part of the summer home of Aleksandr Tkachev, governor of Krasnodar Krai. Vitishko was sentenced to three years’ labor in a penal colony, pending appeal. Then, last week, when he was on his way to speak to reporters in Sochi about his case, he was (as reported in this blog) arrested for using profanity at a public bus stop and taken away for a 15-day jail term. A legal appeal of his sentence failed on February 12th. Yulia Gorbunova, of H.R.W., said, “The case against Vitishko has been politically motivated from the start. When the authorities continued to harass him it became clear they were trying to silence and extract certain retribution against certain persistent critics of the preparations for the Olympics.”

The Krasnodar crime scene: “This is our forest”

Governor Tkachev, a certified ultranationalist loon, has been in the news before. As governor of the jurisdiction which includes Sochi, he has been among those most outspoken in casting the security threats to the Olympics as a racial problem. It was he who (as reported at the time in this blog) first invited Cossack troops to patrol both Sochi and Krasnodar Krai as a whole, promising local police that “what you can’t do, the Cossacks can”—while also reassuring rights groups that Cossacks do not carry firearms, only whips (phew!). There are 1,000 Cossacks in full uniform currently patrolling Sochi. Tkachev has also called for Cossacks to expel North Caucasus minority groups, who are predominantly Muslim, from the province. He referred to the region as “crawling” with Caucasus people who he said “make ethnic Russians feel like strangers in their own country.” Nor is he ignorant of the fact that the minorities in question are the indigenous peoples of the region and that Russia brutally conquered the territory only a few generations ago. He is a foremost proponent of Putin-era Russia’s fascist-style worship of authority and the ideology of “might makes right” on which modern Russia’s authoritarian regime is built.

Gov. Tkachev in his Cossack regalia

Arbitrary arrests, labor camps, Cossacks, ethnic cleansing, shameless apologism for genocide—the “new Russia” sure looks a lot like the old one.

Anna Sidorova, from Russia’s curling team at the Sochi Olympics

Monday, February 10, 2014

Sochi Update: Puppet States under a Cloud, Pussy Riot in New York, Ukrainian Hijacker Questioned

Members of the Ukrainian feminist political collective Femen demonstrated against the Sochi Olympics
in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin.

I admit it. I think politics is the only interesting spectator sport at the Olympics. Here’s the latest:

Ukrainian hijacking
Authorities in Turkey have confirmed that a drunk Ukrainian man who (as reported at the time in this blog) tried to hijack a plane to Sochi during the opening ceremonies acted alone. The Pegasus Airlines flight from Kharkov, Ukraine, to Istanbul, landed in Istanbul anyway and the man was arrested without incident. His claim that a bomb was on the plane was false. However, there was a political connection: the would-be hijacker, Artem Hozlov, age 45, said that his demands included the release of Ukrainian “hostages”—a reference to arrested anti-government protestors. And he said he wanted to go to Sochi because that was “where Vladimir Putin and Viktor Yanukovych are meeting, both of whom have blood on their hands.” (Ukraine was listed in this blog as no. 4 among “10 Political Causes Likely to Disrupt the Sochi Games.”)

The scene on the tarmac in Istanbul after Friday’s aborted hijacking

Dagestan
Meanwhile, the insurgency just east of Sochi in Russia’s predominantly-Muslim North Caucasus region, continued apace. In Makhachkala, capital of the ethnically diverse Republic of Dagestan, Russian special forces killed five militants and arrested a sixth in a house raid on February 8th. The group’s leader, Alexei Pashentsev, was an ethnically Russian convert to Islam, an increasingly common phenomenon in the Muslim insurgency. The five were linked to the Buynayksk gang, one of a whole network of warring drugs and weapons smuggling gangs who are interlaced with the Caucasus Emirate movement’s separatist insurgency in Dagestan and other republics (listed in this blog as no. 1 among “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games”). But there is not necessarily any link between this incident and the Olympics—or with last year’s bus bombings in Volgograd, for which the Dagestan branch of the Emirate claimed responsibility.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia
It was decided early on that Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two “sovereign” puppet states carved by Russian forces out of the northern flank of the Republic of Georgia, would not compete as independent states in the Olympics (as reported on in this blog recently). After all, only five nations in the world recognize them—Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, and Tuvalu. (Even Belarus has better sense.) This has infuriated Abkhaz and Ossete nationalists, even those who realize that this a snub from the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.), not from Russia. Attention then turned to whether Georgia would boycott the Olympics, but they haven’t, even though Georgia and Russia have no diplomatic relations. Georgia was infuriated by Russia’s decision to extend its Sochi “security perimeter” into Abkhazian—and thus, as far as most of the world is concerned, Georgian—territory. Two days before the opening ceremonies, the former prime minister of Denmark and current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Anders Fogh Rasmussen, expressed indignation at that move, saying, “ We have noted the recent decision to temporarily extend the so-called border zone of Abkhazia further into Georgian territory without the Georgian government’s consent. We are very concerned about that decision.” (“Concern” is cheap. NATO stood by and yawned in 2008 when Russia invaded its Georgia—an official partner, but not member, of NATO—in the South Ossetia War.)

Abkhazia’s president, Aleander Ankvab, with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in 2011.
(Puppet strings not visible.)

One dicey issue was what to do in the case of the maps of different nations projected on the large screen as national teams entered the arena on February 7th in the opening ceremony. When Georgia’s team came in, the map of Georgia shown had very convenient clouds covering Abkhazia and South Ossetia, thus dodging the issue entirely. For the citizens of these forgotten nations—and for the Georgians ethnically cleansed from their territories when they were created—that must have been a cloudy omen of a different kind.

I know, it looks some awful microwaved dinner that might be served on an Aeroflot flight to Vladivostok.
In fact, this is a map of Georgia, with Abkhazia and South Ossetia conventiently shrouded by clouds,
on the Sochi opening-ceremonies Jumbotron.

Observers waited to see whether the two quasi-states would be treated as independent in other, more subtle symbolic ways at the Games. (Nearly all Abkhazians and South Ossetians hold Russian passports, so it is easy for them to compete as athletes.) Abkhazia’s president (and Soviet-era K.G.B. chief), Alexander Ankvab, and South Ossetia’s president, Leonid Tibilov, attended the opening ceremonies but not as “official guests” of either the Russian Federation or the I.O.C. But they held some diplomatic-style meetings—with each other and, rather chillingly for those who think their puppet-state status is a mere prelude to annexation by Russia, with Leonid Slutsky, who chairs Russia’s parliamentary committee on Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.) and Eurasian integration. There has, after all, been talk of the two republics joining Russia’s nascent customs union with Belarus, Kazakhstan, and possibly Armenia—the very trading bloc which is the opposite pole to the European Union (E.U.) in Ukraine’s ongoing political divide over the country’s geopolitical orientation. (Abkhazia and South Ossetia were listed recently in this blog as no. 5 among “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games.”)

Georgia’s Olympic team at the opening ceremonies

Pussy Riot
While Russia and hundreds of athletes are making headlines in Sochi, the country’s most famous dissidents are making headlines in the West. Two members of the persecuted punk band and political collective Pussy Riot met in NewYork with the city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, and his wife. Among the topics discussed were prison reform. The two women, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina, said they were interested in visiting some American prisons. Their visit to the United States comes 50 years, nearly to the day, after the Beatles’ appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Does this mean that they are heralding a pop-music “Russian invasion”?

Pussy Rioters at an Amnesty International function in New York this week

Next, in Berlin, Germany, Tolokonnikova and Alekhina visited the Reichstag and the Berlin Film Festival and indicated they were considering a run for office, in Moscow’s municipal legislature. (Pussy Riot was listed in this blog as no. 6 among “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games.”)

Gay rights
Expressions of solidarity with Russia’s persecuted gays and lesbians (no. 3 in this blog’s list of “10 Political Causes Sure to Disrupt the Sochi Games”) have been so far muted at these Games. After all, wearing anything ideological like a rainbow flag on an Olympic uniform is forbidden under I.O.C. rules. But there have been a few exceptions in other areas. Brian Boitano, the U.S. figure-skater who created shockwaves of surprise by coming out as gay last month, was in Sochi and was giving interviews on gay rights and issues. And Iceland’s minister of science, education, and culture, Illugi Gunnarsson, attended the opening ceremonies wearing a rather fetching “gay pride” rainbow tie.

Illugi Gunnarsson

Springtime of Nations

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The KGB Olympics: Russians Arrest 2 Pussy Rioters, Circassian Leader; Terrorist “Emir” Killed in Dagestan

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Sochi Update: Earthquake Prayers, Racist Rings, Gay-Pride Flag Kerfuffles, Jailed Activists

Monday, February 10, 2014

Sochi Update: Puppet States under a Cloud, Pussy Riot in New York, Ukrainian Hijacker Questioned

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