Russia - ACTING UP - Loskutov and Bashinova

ACTING UP - RUSSIA'S CIVIL SOCIETY - Portraits by Platon for Human Rights Watch -
Artyom Loskutov of Novosibirsk is a performance artist who started a new kind of political protest dubbed a "monstration"; Yulia Bashinova is an activist who held the first "monstration" in Moscow in 2011. Since anti-Putin gatherings rarely receive permission from the authorities and the participants risk arrest, those who join in "monstrations" often don't say or do anything overtly political. Instead, they carry nonsense signs such as "Wear a mustache!" and "If it weren't for legs, I wouldn't be here," and not-so-subtle plays on old Soviet slogans, such as "Work! Peace! Amoeba!" "Monstrations" have caught on across the country -- leaving local authorities bewildered, but sensing that somehow, they're being made fun of. "Everything around us is just as absurd," says Loskutov. "We have a president and prime minister who live in a completely absurd world," agrees Bashinova.

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[moidc]

@oystein127

Financed by the billionaire George Soros. HRW's latest videos are all about(more like against) Russia, to overshadow latest Russian report about lack of "human rights", "democracy" and "freedom" in the US:

en*rian*ru/russia/20111229/170­542501.html

[oystein127]

HRW is just America propeganda

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@gnidich2000

Is it supposed to be Polish or Galician?

[gnidich2000]

@moidc ti mudak, nu izhivi v temnote. gavno debilnoe