Petersburg TV: Homosexuality Is An “Abomination”

TV’s ‘Bridge of Freedom’ Describes Gays as ‘Abomination’
By Sergey Chernov
St. Petersburg Times
July 14, 2009

A chief editor at a local television channel called homosexuality an “abomination” in a caustic reply to an open letter written by an insulted viewer. The viewer, St. Petersburg resident Maria Yefremenkova, had earlier held a one-woman protest against what she described [...]

Petersburg Police: Music Fans Are Extremists

Chernov’s Choice

The St. Petersburg Times

July 17, 2009
The St. Petersburg Prosecutor’s Office has admitted that local music fans are under police surveillance—officially as a measure to counteract “extremist activities.”
The city’s Primorsky District police “have organized the exposure of members of informal entities, whose activities may have an extremist nature, on a permanent basis,” the web site [...]

Solidarity with Seva Ostapov!

July 18 is a Global Action Day in support of Russian student Seva Ostapov!
No love is lost between the Russian population and the cops: facts of police terror are brought to light with disturbing frequency.
On April 4, 2008, Moscow cops beat up and arrested seven young men near Sokolniki metro station in Moscow. The reason for this was [...]

Tariq Ali: Obama and Empire

Video of a lecture by Tariq Ali at the Marxism 2009 festival in London, “The American Empire in Crisis: Obama at Home and Abroad.” Filmed by Ady Cousins. The video can also be viewed at the Counterfire website.