Occupy Pedophilia in Russia

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Wednesday April 09, 2014 · 10:43 PM PDT

2014/04/09 · 22:43

Plight of gays in Russia became heated debate in the West at least for some time. Is it so bad or exaggerated by Western media?

Here on Daily Kos in front page diary Top Comments Hunted in Russia edition I learned about existence of UK Channel 4 documentary titled Hunted whose purpose to show plight of gays in today's Russia. I guessed (correctly) that "documentary" based on controversial Maxim Martsinkevich organization Occupy Pedophilia.

Martsinkevich well known as attention whore in Russia who made name for fake & staged videos which were generously (hopefully without infringing copyrights) used in Channel 4 documentary which caused so much outrage and anti-Russian feelings among its viewers.

In this diary I intend to translate some Russian sources on Martsinkevich activities in order you have full understanding of the movie and whether it presented exaggerated view on threats to gays in Russia.

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Monday April 23, 2012 · 8:16 AM PDT

2012/04/23 · 08:16

Beginning is here.

After passing the border, I chose Paradise Hotel immediately to the right , there I changed Indian rupees to Nepali. The hotel is certainly not paradise, but I was pleased with simple room. From the balcony I watched movement of people and vehicles across the border. Quite interesting timepass. India is very close, just 50 meters. But already unreachable for me, Idea 3G stopped working, and I don’t have Indian visa.

India in 50 m is close yet unreachable

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Tuesday April 17, 2012 · 5:31 AM PDT

2012/04/17 · 05:31

It’s my 5th time in Nepal in just 4 years. Indian visa was ending so I bought tickets on bus from Dharamsala to Delhi, on train to Gorakhpur in advance and then planned to hire jeep to Nepali border.

My favourite Dharamsala, view from my window

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Tuesday March 08, 2011 · 5:44 AM PST

2011/03/08 · 05:44

I just joined Twitter two days ago. Why so late? I could not figure out what it's used for, occasional visits by links mystified me, short sentences and links were puzzling. Finally I jumped in. And was swallowed by whirling currents of information exchanged, links to beautiful places I would never visit in my life. I learned more in short time than I could ever imagined.

Unlike Facebook which is more and more resembling collections of fortified towns and blocks with exclusive membership Twitter is all about internet, free exchanging ideas, plans, news, etc. I befriended many, not many followed me in return. I don't hold the grudge, because almost everything in Twitter is open to all. Very few people keep closed Twitter accounts where only approved bloggers have access. In Twitter you don't need to be accepted as a member of elite club like in Facebook to catch snippets of interesting conversations.

Like this talk which happened yesterday and I discovered just now.

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Chinese Christmas Trees

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Saturday January 01, 2011 · 3:30 AM PST

2011/01/01 · 03:30

The New Year celebrations have passed. Nowadays majority of people around the world is marking New Year day. Why? Julian-Gregorian calendar has won battle for pre-eminence with numerous Buddhist-Hindu-Confucian-Muslim calendars. However New Year day is not celebrated everywhere with the same fervour as in Western countries.

Christmas Tree in Xi'an, Shaanxi

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Saturday May 29, 2010 · 12:29 PM PDT

2010/05/29 · 12:29

On Thursday Obama's administration quietly and almost unnoticed released new national security strategy which reflects American perception of the world as it is and outlines priorities in American foreign policy.

As Foreign Policy noted this is not a strategy but rather a long speech printed on 52 pages. It took 1.5 year to prepare and by quick reading it has not changed much from previous version of 2003 though it does not include some points like Bush doctrine of pre-emptive strikes.

(Yawn)

Nevertheless this is document which will be used for assessments of the administration's performance in the future. Let's see how high Obama's team set the planks. Not very high.

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Sunday March 28, 2010 · 10:03 AM PDT

2010/03/28 · 10:03

This is personal photodiary on how I spent the Sunday’s morning and what I thought about.

A quiet morning in a temple on the way to Swaymbhunath stupa.

It is late afternoon and I just returned from Anjuna’s café (Anjuna and her political views I described in earlier diary) where I ate dhal-bhat (traditional Nepali food, a tray of rice, lentils and vegetables) and talked with one American girl Kaydi. She said she is here on research for writing (as a ghostwriter) memoirs of a man who spent some time in Nepal. Lovely, I never met ghostwriters before, what do they feel when they see their books without own names. I can assure you it’s written by me with my thoughts and feelings which I channeled in the afternoon sun on the rooftop garden towards poverty and development. The one book I purchased in Delhi, "How rich countries got rich and why poor countries stay poor" by Erik S Reinert was aiding me.

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Tuesday February 09, 2010 · 9:29 AM PST

2010/02/09 · 09:29

Quick personal photodiary on how I spent this day.

Chorten in the middle of McLeod Ganj today.

After spending January with my sister and niece in Goa I am back in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh in North India. It’s lively place where Dalai Lama and exiled Tibetans reside. There are also many expats from all over the world but don’t think it’s not Indian town – very much Indian, for both locals Himachalis and Indians from other parts of the country (first of all Kashmiri traders) and even many Nepalis have come here for business and work. They were attracted by newly found prosperity and development.

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Thursday October 01, 2009 · 7:49 AM PDT

2009/10/01 · 07:49

How big Al Qaeda in Af-Pak?

Yesterday on DailyKos I had read interesting diary McChrystal's Myth where in the beginning we learned that:

there is no sign of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. The argument for persisting in Afghanistan says that we have to make sure al-Qaeda doesn’t go back there, yet as former CIA officer Philip Giraldi recently noted, credible assessments suggest that "Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda has likely been reduced to a core group of eight to ten terrorists who are on the run more often than not."

I don’t know on what ground Mr Giraldi made such an assessment, and whether his opinion may be taken as a proven fact. In South Asia in public domain (on TV, newspapers and books) there is different perspective whatever definition of Al Qaeda might be.

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Thursday September 24, 2009 · 11:28 AM PDT

2009/09/24 · 11:28

In media and in public there is growing sense of failure in Afghanistan for the Western alliance. Leaked report of general McCrystal only confirmed this feeling. Brushing aside biased letters and articles of American conservatives and self-congratulatory speeches of officials of Obama administration I want to concentrate on Afghanistan, let’s try to judge what is going on in this country on merit. Is there any chance for success and what is constituted success?

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Tuesday September 08, 2009 · 10:56 AM PDT

2009/09/08 · 10:56

It is late evening in Bangkok and it is still raining. Monsoon time. After some time I found myself again in the friendly Asian megapolis waiting for visa processing (quite a usual timepass when one is out of her country for a long time).
Khaosan in the rain
Tourist ghetto of Khaosan Rd area under the rain.

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Thursday May 21, 2009 · 9:35 AM PDT

2009/05/21 · 09:35

It was my dream to look at the highest mountain on this planet called by westerners Everest (after British official) and by locals Qomolungma or Sagarmatha, which in translation mean roughly the same, the Mother Goddess of the Sky. The full text of diary is in Part I, Part II and Part III. Here you can see some photos taken on the journey.

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My first days in Twitter

Chinese Christmas Trees

Lukewarm reception of Obama's security strategy

A morning in Kathmandu

Miserable day

How big Al Qaeda in Af Pak?

From failure to success in Afghanistan

Reflections on recession in Bangkok

Trip to Everest (Photo Round-up)