A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, including by gluing a quotation on a statue of a Ukrainian poet.
Darya Kozyreva was sentenced to two years and eight months, the Joint Press Service of Courts in St. Petersburg said in statement Friday.
Kozyreva was arrested on February 24, 2024, after she glued a verse by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko onto his monument in St Petersburg, according to OVD-Info, an independent Russian human rights group.
You know what my mid-life crisis is like? Not someone who thinks ‘damn, half my life is done, I went from being a fit and thin individual pre-covid to being an overweight guy who still hasn’t lost the covid weight or changed his life accordingly… also I want a sports car and date girls half my age (who would all be over 20)’
It is more like… I had no idea the world would suck like this in this way. The liberal ‘end of history’ myth that (neo)liberal democracy was the ultimate form of society and no more dictatorships went now to a world of hyperauthoritarianism, with all countries either being oligarchic democracies were the people are given the illusion of choice to dictatorships where even that is not granted. Where the world is run on the whims of out of touch psychopaths who don’t have any understanding on how civilization and economies work other than ‘do exactly what I say or you will die’. Donald Trump has effectively ended any pretense of such an order.
And even the whims of small time psychos ruin everything for everyone, like mass shooters who in some countries has resulted in continued efforts to eliminate entire sports and sectors of the economy (I am referring to Canada and polytechnique in 1989. Gun laws in Canada are being continually written mostly as a result of that one shooting that has now resulted in the effective obliteration of shooting as a sport). And no, while other shootings have happened they have not had the same effect. The worst mass shooting in canada history was done with smuggled firearms from the US and the shooter was barred from legally owning firearms for decades.)
This will be America in a year or so.
Pathetic putin being scared of little girls being more brave than he will ever be.
Not the first time he had girls arrested for standing up to him.
What do you think of this @[email protected]?
I’m not sure what exactly you’re asking for, the nationalists governing Russia are cracking down on anti-war protestors. The article says there are around 2 dozen instances of this over the last few years.
I think they asked what you think about it, not just a reiteration of what’s happening.
That is what I think about it, though. This isn’t surprising or out of the norm with what we know. I’m not sure what special addition or commentary they want me to add.
They literally want to know your opinion of it?
I mean seriously, can you be any more obtuse?
I’m not being obtuse, this is my opinion on it: this is entirely expected and in line with what’s going on in Russia currently. Nothing about this is surprising.
Are you asking me to make a moral judgement? I think it’s a bit draconian, sure.
Are you asking me to expand more upon the dynamics in the Russian Federation right now, leading to why this is entitely unsurprising? The Russian Federation right now is split between 2 major and 1 minor groups:
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The Nationalist Liberals. United Russia, the nationalist party, is the current dominant party in the Russian Federation and controls the largest number of seats in the State Duma. This is Putin’s political party. They have broad support due to opposing western imperialism, which devastated Russia in the aftermath of the dissolution of the USSR, but their support is shrinking in favor of group number 2 due to the failures of capitalism in Russia.
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The Communists. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) is the second largest group in Russia, and controls the second most seats in the State Duma. In the last several years, communist party membership has skyrocketed, and a wave of soviet nostalgia has overtaken the populace. The nationalists are trying to steer that soviet nostalgia towarss Russian nationalism, but by and large this has resulted in more people moving to supporting a return of socialism. The CPRF critically supports the nationalists over group 3, which hardly anyone supports.
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The pro-western Liberals. These are very unpopular, because the west looted and destroyed much of the gains made by the previous socialist system. Reconciliation with the west is an extremely unpopular view, but this group gets magnified in western viewpoints over the communists because they wish to present a narrative that Putin is unpopular.
The harsh truth is that Putin’s popularity in Russia is real because the nationalists stopped the outflow of wealth from the country, but this same group of nationalists largely keeps it for themselves, so the communists are rising to distrubute that wealth to the working classes and restore socialism. The pro-western liberals, which is who the subject of OP seems to belong to, are extremely unpopular, hence why the Russian state is cracking down on them to not much outcry from the Russian public.
Is that developed enough for you?
42·2 hours agoYou’re supposed to say Russia bad.
Pretty sure that’s why the @'d me, hoping for a dogpile.
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He won’t respond because he can’t get the mods to ban and delete anyones replies to him.
Just responded some minutes ago. Wanna retract your comment now?
3 years for a bit of vandalism on a statue from the “Nazi” country they’re invading. Interested to see how the tankies defend this.
Tankie here: nothing to defend, there is currently no tankie in the comments defending anything. As any capitalist country does regarding its geopolitical interests, Russia will enjail anti-war protestors and/or activists, and I condemn this. The same happens in Britain today, with activists from pro-Palestinian groups doing a literal hunger strike in jail with no coverage from mass western media.
Now, as a reply: why haven’t I seen posts over in .world about the five Russian communists given 15ish years of jail each for being communists? Why is it western mass media doesn’t care about communist activists but does only care about pro-Ukraine activists, and why is this reflected on a supposedly free Fediverse instance?
They won’t defend it, they’ll just ignore it and keep talking about US being bad.
lol! That’s exactly what happened in a comment responding to the same thing! Dude just whatabout’ed the entire thing and circled back around to how the US blah blah blah….
It’s fucking uncanny.
Well obviously, the US committed a genocide against it’s native population and had interment camps in world war 2. Everyone knows since that happened it’s been functionally impossible for any other nation to ever do a bad thing. The US created a monopoly in doing bad things and refuses to share with the world because they’re shellfish
Both can be bad, both are worth talking about.
Yeah, but… what type of shellfish?
had interment camps in world war 2.
ICE brought those back.
3 years might become 10, there’s such thing as a “carousel prosecution” in Russia: your sentence ends, you are ready to leave and get another one for some nonsense; rinse and repeat.
I hope this girl is not that important tho.
That’s if she survives the next 3 years
Clearly she’s a counter revolutionary.
Nonsequitors
That’s where Trump wants to take us. To this Soviet Russia shit.
Soviet Russia is when capitalist country does capitalist country thing
This is notably not soviet Russia.
I read about her months ago! On a website run by former Pussy Riot members. ✊
I wonder how the US will handle anti-war protestors
Will? Future? You can already check how they treat pro-Palestine protesters
I mean, they grilled Hasan Piker for hours: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/hasan-piker-border-trump-gaza
“Relatively peacefully” for now, but you can tell they’re going to keep pushing things.
There’s some interesting research from Kent State about that
