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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia[list of journalists killed in Russia] (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_журналистов,_убитых_в_России[Список журналистов, убитых в России]).
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Russian_assassinations[List of Soviet and Russian assassinations]
* 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23/here-are-ten-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways/ "Here are 10 critics of Vladimir Putin who died violently or in suspicious ways"
* 2017-07-18 https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/18/online-and-all-fronts/russias-assault-freedom-expression "Online and On All Fronts Russia's Assault on Freedom of Expression" from <<human-rights-watch>>
[[federal-list-of-extremist-materials]]
=== Federal List of Extremist Materials (Федеральный список экстремистских материалов)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_List_of_Extremist_Materials
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Федеральный_список_экстремистских_материалов
<<censorship-monitoring,Unlike the Chinese>>, they have a public list, each entry had a numerical ID even. This is the best thing ever made! The dream for <<keyword-attack,keyword attackers>>!
Most of it appears to be anti/<<nazi>>, and notably anti-anti-semitic but several items are purely political anti-freedoms.
One wonders if the majority of the items are just fillers to hide the really juicy anti-freedom ones.
We need to make a <<github>> mirror of all of those some day!
The list: http://minjust.gov.ru/ru/extremist-materials[] Here's an archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20200817142035/http://minjust.gov.ru/ru/extremist-materials/export.csv?attach=page[]. The website has a CSV for download with all entries at the bottom. Enca says the encoding is "MS-Windows code page 1251", convert to UTF-8 with:
....
iconv -f WINDOWS-1251 -t UTF-8//IGNORE export.csv
....
`//IGNORE` is needed because their fucking CSV export has a bug and otherwise `iconv` stops at the first error.
Result at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/039ed572f61866655fc6ea3333b199527df4f3eb/russian-federal-list-of-extremist-materials-utf8-2020-08-17.csv
From this we can grep, and then to overcome translation limits as there is no offline option yet: https://askubuntu.com/questions/380847/is-it-possible-to-translate-words-via-terminal[], dump your selection on a gist and use Google translate on the Gist.
A website "dedicated" to bypassing censorship of the list: http://zapretno.info/[]. TODO much of that website's content is not clearly marked as being on the list.
* 2791: "Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within" by <<litvinenko>>
* Religion
** 1171, 1172, 1173: "What is Scientology", which likely refers to this L. Ron Hubbard book. https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Scientology-L-Ron-Hubbard/dp/1573181226[] and two other books. Coverage: https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-officially-bans-scientology-books-brands-them-extremist-2012-3?r=US&IR=T
** 2904: Jehovah's Witnesses website https://www.jw.org/en/[]. Coverage: https://www.state.gov/reports/2017-report-on-international-religious-freedom/russia/
* Ukraine due to <<russo-ukrainian-war>>
** 2596: A. M. Byvshev's poem "Ukrainian patriots", where he disagreed with Russian intervention in Donbass and supported military resistance by Ukrainians.
** searching for "суда" (Crimea) has dozens of hits
* Anti-Putin and apparently non hate-crime:
** 1000:
*** Leaflets with the following content: "Down with the power of the Cheka-nuty Putin and Medvedev", "Down with the power of the Cheka-nuty Putin"
*** Листовки следующего содержания: «Долой власть ЧК-нутых Путина и Медведева», «Долой власть ЧК-нутого Путина»
** 4071: <<gay-putin>>
** 4914:
*** The book "Where did Mr. Putin take Russia?" author Yu.E. Kozenkov (M., 2005 - 208 p.)
*** "Книга «Куда завел Россию мистер Путин?» автор Ю.Е. Козенков (М., 2005 – 208 с.)
[[roskomnadzor]]
==== Roskomnadzor (Роскомнадзор)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervision_of_Communications,_Information_Technology_and_Mass_Media
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Роскомнадзор
The Russian censorship body under <<putin>>. The Russian <<cac>>.
They are the ones who make Russian takedowns on <<github-gov-takedowns>>, e.g. https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/tree/master/Russia/2020
[[putin]]
=== Putin (Путин, 普京, 1999-2008, 2012-∞)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Путин,_Владимир_Владимирович
* 2020-12-22 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/22/russias-putin-signs-bill-giving-presidents-lifetime-immunity "Russia's Putin signs bill giving ex-presidents lifetime immunity". Shit is going down.
* 2019-12-19: Putin proposes abolishing term limits. <<xi-abolishes-term-limits-2018-03,Learnt from Xi>>:
** https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-presidential-term-limit-russia-moscow-conference-today-a9253156.html
** https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-russia-putin-constitution/putin-says-hes-open-to-tweaking-presidential-term-limits-idUKKBN1YN1JO
** 2020-03-25 vote delayed due to <<covid>>
* 2014 Putin khuylo!
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin_khuylo!
** https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Путин_—_хуйло!
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Limonov | https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Лимонов,_Эдуард_Вениаминович
https://youtu.be/fAoMzxKkH2M?t=3628 Can't Get You Out of My Head S01E06 "Are We Pigeon Or Are We Dancer" highlights the fact that Putin came to power without a vision, without ideals and without personality. He was clearly just put there by the corrupt oligarchs who controlled the media as an administrator who would favor corruption.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiI5UuCiEoU Russian Youtuber Bashir Dokhov puts Putin portrait in a lift as an opinion poll. TODO evidence that it was not staged, e.g. address, identities of people shown. But in any case, Ciro does feel that as of 2020 Putin's power is very precarious compared to <<xi-jinping>> for example. E.g., whenever Ciro spoke to Russians abroad, they were all able to criticize Putin. But about on third to half of the Chinese abroad were completely brainwahsed and thought China has the best government possible. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeb3MMl3lB4[].
video::BiI5UuCiEoU[youtube,height=400,width=600]
Russia apparently has a long list of poisoning political enemies: https://nypost.com/2018/06/23/inside-russias-long-history-of-poisoning-political-enemies/
* 2020 <<the-poisoning-of-alexei-navalny-2020>>
* 2018 <<skripal>>
* 2012 Alexander Perepilichny Перепеличный, Александр Юрьевич https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Perepilichny | https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Перепеличный,_Александр_Юрьевич
* 2006 <<litvinenko>>
* 2006 Anna Politkovskaya Анна Политковская https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya | https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Политковская,_Анна_Степановна Interview excerpt: https://youtu.be/fAoMzxKkH2M?t=3616
* 2004 Viktor Yushchenko Ющенко, Виктор Андреевич https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko | https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ющенко,_Виктор_Андреевич
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_laboratory_of_the_Soviet_secret_services[Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services] (link:++https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Токсикологическая_лаборатория_НКВД_—_НКГБ_—_МГБ++[Токсикологическая лаборатория НКВД — НКГБ — МГБ])
Meme partially supported by Putin himself, showing how physically strong and <<gay-putin,manly>> the president is. A form of <<ccp-cult,personality cult>>.
Similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_facts[Chuck Norris facts].
* 2017-06-07 https://mashable.com/2017/08/07/the-swaggering-masculinity-of-vladimir-putin/?europe=true (https://web.archive.org/web/20200412092201/https://mashable.com/2017/08/07/the-swaggering-masculinity-of-vladimir-putin/?europe=true[archive])
* https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/vladimir-putin-doing-manly-things/
* 2017-12-07 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-art-idUSKBN1E11L5 'SUPERPUTIN' exhibition gives Russian leader a pop-art make over
.Putin swims Butterfly stroke in a Siberian lake around August 2009. The Telegraph https://web.archive.org/web/20200412090316/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6175324/Vladimir-Putin-gives-strong-signal-he-may-be-president-again.html[correctly interpreted this as a sign that he would be re-elected in 2012]. For reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal[Lake Baikal in Siberia has a maximum temperature of 14 °C in summer]. Other dictators have used similar swim tactics before, the most notable possibly being <<mao-swim>>. https://web.archive.org/web/20200412090316/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/6175324/Vladimir-Putin-gives-strong-signal-he-may-be-president-again.html[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Putin_swim.jpg[height=400]
.Putin riding a horse shirtless https://nypost.com/2014/08/29/putin-its-best-not-to-mess-with-us/[near Lake Seliger in August 2009]. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/worl-photo-caption-contest-shirtless-putin_n_3263512[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Putin_horse.jpg[height=500]
.Putin riding a bear. https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/469429961142687422/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Putin_bear.jpg[height=400]
.Putin riding a shark. https://sharkdivers.blogspot.com/2011/05/russian-pm-putin-rides-great-white.html[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Putin_shark.png[height=400]
.Putin riding a giant eagle. https://www.quora.com/Is-this-picture-of-Vladimir-Putin-riding-a-bear-fake-or-real[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Putin_eagle.webp[height=400]
.Putin riding a meteor. https://www.quora.com/Is-this-picture-of-Vladimir-Putin-riding-a-bear-fake-or-real[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Putin_meteor.webp[height=400]
.Putin riding a dinosaur in a Sci-Fi planet. https://9gag.com/gag/a5K5jLG[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Putin_dinosaur.webp[height=400]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgGzAKP_HuM "RASPUTIN - Vladimir Putin - Love The Way You Move (Funk Overload) @slocband" by Pace Audio (2016). Somewhere in the 2010's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin_(song)[Rasputin 1978 song] by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boney_M.[Boney M.] saw a https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ra-ra-rasputin[meme resurgence] by adapting the song to refer to Vladmir Putin instead of the original song's originally intended https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin[Grigori Rasputin]. This video adds amazing cute animations of Russian scientists trying to create the perfect funk dancing machine, and highlights the <<superputin>> meme as Putin himself is the perfect dancing machine in the end.
video::YgGzAKP_HuM[youtube,height=400,width=600]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBaSfgNJnE Putin is number one greatest president song by Animation Domination High Def (2014). Good graphics, but the song is crap unlike the Rasputin one unfortunately. Many <<gay-putin>> suggestions.
video::UbBaSfgNJnE[youtube,height=400,width=600]
[[night-wolves]]
===== Night wolves (Ночные волки)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Wolves
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ночные_волки
Russian ultra-nationalist and motorcycle group supported by Putin.
Notably, they have made large incredibly cheesy Putin supported music/theatrical/stunt shows to revive Russian nationalism.
Mentioned at https://youtu.be/9Q1hZmAcE08?t=4974 "Can't Get You Out of My Head - Part 6: Are We Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer?"
Sample show on <<russia-today>>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyk1Ajq8yE
[[gay-putin]]
==== Gay Putin (Гей Путинt, 2017)
Added to the <<federal-list-of-extremist-materials>>.
* 2017 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-putin-gay-clown-memes-internet-extremism-opposition-president-kremlin-a7669486.html
<<gay-rights,Homosexuality>> is not super popular in Russia in general:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia
* 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_gay_propaganda_law Russian gay propaganda law (2013) forbids the favorable depiction of homosexuality to minors
.The possibly Gay Putin (Гей Путинt) clown image banned in 2017. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/2085395/its-now-illegal-russia-share-image-putin-possibly-gay[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Gay_Putin.jpg[height=400]
.Gay Putin (Гей Путинt) with Gay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev[Medvedev] (Гей https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Медведев,_Дмитрий_Анатольевич[Медведев]). This image was used as a poster in the 34th Berlin Christopher Street Day parade in 2012, the German version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_parade[Gay Pride parade] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/骄傲游行[骄傲游行]). https://kanobu.ru/pub/398489/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Gay_Putin_with_Gay_Medvedev.jpg[height=400]
[[putin-trump-kiss]]
.Possibly Gay Putin kissing possibly Gay <<flg-trump,Trump>> mural entitled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Everything_Great_Again[Make Everything Great Again] painted in Lithuania in 2016 by by artists Dominykas Čečkauskas and Mindaugas Bonanu. It references the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections[Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections]. It was https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/12/vandals-censor-image-of-putin-snogging-trump-lithuania[later vandalized]. Now we just need a Putin <<xi-jinping>> kiss. Trump Xi kiss https://www.dw.com/en/sierens-china-survival-of-the-fittest/a-49498499[can be found here]. https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/putin-will-pay-a-high-price-for-trumps-friendship/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Putin_Trump_kiss.jpg[height=400]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1d7Llx4rm8 SUPER GAY PUTIN [original] by Squallido Anal Smithee (2014)
video::b1d7Llx4rm8[youtube,height=400,width=600]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8xSZ9Fr4c0 What Putin thinks about gays by BBC News (2014) ahead of the Sochi Olympics. Basically he says we don't discriminate against gays. We passed this law that prevents them from promoting themselves. But that's mostly a anti-pedophilia law to start with, gays will be fine.
video::m8xSZ9Fr4c0[youtube,height=400,width=600]
[[skripal]]
==== The poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal Серге́й Ви́кторович Скрипáль (2018-03-04)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Отравление_Сергея_и_Юлии_Скрипаль
For more poisonings see: <<putin-sponsored-poisonings>>.
In 4 March 2018, the Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent[Novichok agent] (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Новичок_(отравляющие_вещества)[Новичо́к]), a Soviet-era nerve agent, which was likely put on their front door knob in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury[Salisbury, UK], exact address https://goo.gl/maps/oKASuLWpcSmLqL8F9[Christie Miller Road]! Straight out of a spy novel.
On 30 June 2018, the man of an unlucky drug addict couple found the counterfeit expensive looking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Ricci_(brand)[Nina Ricci] Premier Jour perfume bottle containing the poison, and gave it to the woman who died. How unlucky can you fucking be, as if heavy drug addiction weren't enough, you still have to deal with fucking Russian Novichok!
.The assassination suspects Alexander Mishkin (Алекса́ндр Евге́ньевич Ми́шкин, alias Alexander Petrov) and Anatoliy Chepiga (Анатолий Владимирович Чепига, alias Ruslan Boshirov) in a CCTV still at Salisbury Station on 3rd March 2018 the day before the assassination. Both GRU and Alexander being a doctor, which is consistent with a poisoning assassination attempt. They later explained on an RT interview that they were visiting the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Cathedral[world renowned Salisbury Cathedral] in their 3 day trip to the UK, and that they <<gay-putin,were not gay>>. Some Western sources interpreted this as an intentional suggestion that they are gay, which for many Russians would imply that they cannot be FSB agents. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/05/planes-trains-and-fake-names-the-trail-left-by-skripal-suspects[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Skripal_assassins_station.jpg[height=400]
.Counterfeit Nina Ricci Premier Jour packet that contained the Novichok. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/644782096/u-k-charges-2-russians-suspected-of-poison-attack-on-skripals[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Skripal_perfume.jpg[height=400]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8OQNyI2i0 "Full Skripal case interview with the UK's suspects (EXCLUSIVE)" by RT with Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Not gay moment at: https://youtu.be/Ku8OQNyI2i0?t=461[461s].
video::Ku8OQNyI2i0[youtube,height=400,width=600]
Besides barring opposition from participating such as <<alexei-navalny>>, electoral fraud was off the charts:
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KQlCRLCw_I 2019-09-12 CCTV footage of Vasily Dyachenko (Василий Дьяченко), who had reported electoral fraud concerns regional 2019 elections, getting surprise punched in the stomach at the St. Petersburg polling station 1619, while the police who is right in front of it do nothing about it. English coverage: https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-police-stand-idly-by-as-election-observer-sucker-punched/30160427.html
video::-KQlCRLCw_I[youtube,height=400,width=600]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oSeRyaFllY 2018-03-18 alleged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud#Ballot_stuffing[ballot stuffing electoral fraud] caught on CCTV in Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast
video::3oSeRyaFllY[youtube,height=400,width=600]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMEqv-NNLW4 Мусора избили ребёнка и наблюдателей на выборах TODO find English version
* Golos (Голос) is the main independent election monitor organization in Russia:
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golos_(election_monitor)
** https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Голос_(мониторинг_выборов)
[[litvinenko]]
==== The murder of Alexander Litvinenko (Литвиненко, Александр Вальтерович, 2006)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Литвиненко,_Александр_Вальтерович
Poisoned with polonium-210, for more poisonings see: <<putin-sponsored-poisonings>>:
* 2006-10-29
** meets with two former FSB agents Dmitry Kovtun and Andrey Lugovoy at Millenium Hotel London TODO exact address
** eats with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Scaramella[Mario Scaramella] at an Itsu in London TODO exact address. <<ciro-santilli>> believes the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsu[Itsu] food to be the real cause of death.
* 2006-11-01 falls ill
* 2006-11-03 admitted into hospital
* 2006-11-23 dies
* 2007-01-26 UK police says they had found a teapot at Millenium Hotel containing extremely high Poloninum-210 traces
* 2010-12 US leaked cables show that Dmitry Kovtun left "positive traces" of radioactive polonium-210 in Germany before departing for Britain https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/11/wilileaks-cables-litvinenko-murder
His 2002 book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Up_Russia[Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within] (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ФСБ_взрывает_Россию[ФСБ взрывает Россию: Федеральная служба безопасности — организатор террористических актов, похищений и убийств]) accuses the FSB of setting up false flag bombing operations, and figures on the <<federal-list-of-extremist-materials>>.
.Litvinenko in his death bed.
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Litvinenko_hospital_bed.webp[height=400]
[[russia-mandatory-registration-of-bloggers]]
==== Mandatory registration of bloggers (2014)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28583669
Bloggers with more than 3000 daily readers must register and cannot be anonymous.
The following Chinese policies come to mind:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_Vladimir_Putin_in_Russia
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Политическая_оппозиция_в_Российской_Федерации
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yegor_Zhukov[Yegor Zhukov]: 2020-08-31 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53972592 "Yegor Zhukov: Leading Russian opposition blogger beaten up", good photo of swallen face
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC19xLluI7dG093Gmw57BhHw
More information: https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/NFKRZ
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp_S_kIowGY "Why You Shouldn't Trust RT (Russia Today)" (2020). Douh!!!!!! <<russia-today>>
* <<my-paranoia-as-a-russian-youtuber>> talks about the <<chilling-effect>>
[[alexei-navalny]]
==== Alexei Navalny (Навальный, Алексей Анатольевич)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Навальный,_Алексей_Анатольевич
Casually barred from the 2018 presidential campaign:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Alexei_Navalny_presidential_campaign
* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42479909
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Навальный,_Алексей_Анатольевич#Президентские_выборы_2018_года
His Wiki page does say one thing of interest though, he has right wing tendencies which scared off liberals:
____
The BBC noted in a profile of Navalny that his endorsement of a political campaign called "Stop feeding the Caucasus" and his willingness to speak at ultra-nationalist events "have caused concern among liberals".
____
This video of his https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQZr2NgKPiU might have been added to the <<federal-list-of-extremist-materials>>, wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Deripaska#Navalny_video[], coverage: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-deripaska-prikhodko-rybka-nuland-yacht/29028148.html but I can't find where it is in the list exactly.
* https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-navalny-nationalist-fears/25059277.html
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNJiO10SWw
* 2021-04-16 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/16/russian-prosecutors-move-to-liquidate-navalnys-extremist-movement "Russian prosecutors move to liquidate Navalny’s ‘extremist’ movement"
===== The poisoning of Alexei Navalny (2020)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexei_Navalny_(2020)
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Отравление_Алексея_Навального
For more poisonings see: <<putin-sponsored-poisonings>>.
The second one! The first one was in 2019, but this one is more serious, the German government said tests confirmed it unequivocally that it was Novichok, which was also recently used in <<skripal>>.
* 2020-12-28 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/28/russia-gives-navalny-ultimatum-return-immediately-or-face-jail "Russia's ultimatum to Navalny: Return immediately or face jail
Russia's prison service accuses Kremlin critic of violating terms of his suspended prison sentence by staying abroad"
* 2020-12-13 more news are coming:
** https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/fsb-team-of-chemical-weapon-experts-implicated-in-alexey-navalny-novichok-poisoning/ indicates the names of 8 suspects. They had phone metadata for them including geolocation. How did they get that data??? https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/164
** https://www.dw.com/en/navalny-poisoning-russia-made-second-assassination-attempt-report/a-55921189 "Navalny poisoning: Russia made second assassination attempt - report". Says British intelligence told that to The Times, paywall https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revealed-kremlin-made-a-second-attempt-to-poison-alexei-navalny-in-botched-assassination-nh32x737j "Revealed: Kremlin made a second attempt to poison Alexei Navalny in botched assassination". TODO any further evidence? WTF they reveal to a paywall newspaper?
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smhi6jts97I Navalny's video accusing people who he belieaves poisoned him
* 2020-10-18 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexey-navalny-poisoning-putin-russia-60-minutes-2020-10-18/ 60 Minutes interview, they flew over to Germany to interview him. He looks normal.
* 2020-09-05 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54039710 "Alexei Navalny: Trump refuses to condemn Russia over poisoning"
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President Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia over the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, saying he has not seen proof.
He said the case was "tragic" but urged reporters to focus instead on China, which he said was a bigger threat to the world than Russia.
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Even after Germany and NATO said it was Novichok for sure... He must be <<putin-trump-kiss,sucking Putin's cock>> to have more nukes pointed against China, or maybe with some cyberhacking for the reelection campaign. Perhaps not a bad strategy, but does completely disregard human rights. Do <<violence,the ends justify the means>>?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54097162 Pompeo then condemned.
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2020-09-14: laboratories in France and Sweden independently confirmed: https://www.dw.com/en/french-swedish-labs-confirm-navalny-poisoned-with-novichok/a-54918924
* 2020-09-04 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54012278 good timeline of events so far
* 2020-09-02 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/world/europe/navalny-poison-novichok.html "Aleksei Navalny Was Poisoned With Novichok, Germany Says". Tests done on a military weapons facility, which the German government said was based on "unequivocal evidence".
* 2020-08-24 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53892900 "Alexei Navalny: Putin critic 'probably poisoned' - doctors"
He was forcibly kept in Russia for a few days to make the poison effect undetectable before they allowed him to be flown to Berlin.
Several policemen prevented family access to him while in Russia.
First doctors told family he was poisoned, but then soon after they changed their minds to some random excuse.
Poison effects consistent with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholinesterase_inhibitor[cholinesterase inhibitors], but the exact substance was not identified in tests.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-russia-politics-navalny-probe/russian-prosecutors-say-no-need-for-criminal-investigation-in-navalny-affair-idUKKBN25N14A
.Photo published on <<alexei-navalny,Navalny>>'s Twitter on 2020-09-15 of him sitting awake in a hospital bed in Germany with his family. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54163389[Source].
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[[khabarovsk-krai-protests-2020]]
==== 2020 Khabarovsk Krai protests (Протесты в Хабаровском крае)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Khabarovsk_Krai_protests
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Протесты_в_Хабаровском_крае
In support to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Furgal[Sergei Furgal] (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Фургал,_Сергей_Иванович[Фургал, Сергей Иванович]).
[[russia-today]]
==== Russia Today (RT, Russian state media)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)
==== Censorship of images in the Soviet Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union
.Before/after comparison of picture of Stalin with Nikolai Yezhov at the Moscow Canal censored circa 1940. Nikolai was edited out form the second picture. (Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images & AFP/GettyImages) https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Nikolai_Yezhov_Stalin_canal_edit.webp[height=600]
.Above: a meeting of the St. Petersburg chapter of the Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class in February 1897, including Lenin and Alexander Malchenko. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Union-de-Lucha.jpg[Source]. Belos: same as above, but with Alexander Malchenko edited out. link:++https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Petersburg_Union_of_Struggle_for_the_Liberation_of_the_Working_Class_-_Feb_1897_-_Altered.jpg++[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Malchenko_no_Malchenko.jpg[height=1000]
[[soviet-radio-jamming]]
==== Soviet Union radio stations (苏联苏联无线电干扰)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_in_the_Soviet_Union#Radio_jamming
Ah, the good old days <<gfw,before the TCP/IP>>, when you could just jam around a border ;-)
http://www.antentop.org/008/files/jamm008.pdf has good images.
.Soviet vertical curtain array of antennas for radio jamming in the 1960s vs Jingjing from <<jingjing-chacha>>. http://www.antentop.org/008/files/jamm008.pdf[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Soviet_radio_jamming_vs_Jingjing.jpg[height=400]
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrHLOGMT_kM Animated Soviet Propaganda American Imperialist The Millionaire COLD WAR CARTOON. Tells the story of a dog that inherited a lot of money from his deceased rich owner.
[[stalin]]
=== Stalin (斯大林, 1922-1952)
.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Yagami[Light Yagami] from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note[Death Note]: "I can kill anyone by simply writing his name here". Stalin: "Bitch please". https://ifunny.co/picture/1-can-kill-anyone-by-simply-writing-his-name-here-TjXCcyuM2[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Stalin_bitch_please.jpg[height=600]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT2z0nrsQ8o "Rasputin vs Stalin." Epic Rap Battles of History YouTube video. This is fire. https://epicrapbattlesofhistory.fandom.com/wiki/Rasputin_vs_Stalin/Rap_Meanings[Explanations].
video::ZT2z0nrsQ8o[youtube,height=400,width=600]
[[russo-ukrainian-war]]
=== Russo-Ukrainian War (2014-)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War
* link:++https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Російсько-українська_війна_(з_2014)++[]
[[mykola-semena]]
==== Mykola Semena (Семена Микола Михайлович)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Semena
* https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Семена_Микола_Михайлович
Ukrainian, worked for <<rferl>> previously, and published against the annexation of Ukrainian territories.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/18/online-and-all-fronts/russias-assault-freedom-expression from <<human-rights-watch>> suggests that one of her articles was added to the <<federal-list-of-extremist-materials>>, possibly "Blockade–the Necessary First Step for Liberation of Crimea", but I can't find the entry.
[[anti-russia-dictatorship-info-sources]]
=== Anti Russia dictatorship sources
[[rferl]]
==== Radio Free Europe (Радио_«Свобода»)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Радио_«Свобода»
The dictator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko[Alexander Lukashenko]. Close ties to his buddy <<putin>>.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_protests[2020 Belarusian protests].
[[moscow-minsk-friendship-mural]]
.The Moscow-Minsk friendship mural in Minsk (capital of Belarus), originally meant to show the harmonious alliance between Belarus and Russia, was defaced in 2016 by adding barbed wire amidst the flowers held and worn by the boy and girl which represent Russia and Belarus respectively, which indicates that the friendship is actually a prison for Belarus. <<dictatorships-tend-to-work-together>> comes to mind. Photo by Aleh Larychau. Upload https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Mural_Minsk-Moscow_in_Minsk_1.jpg[on Wikimedia Commons] deleted because of the lack of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama[Freedom of panorama in Belarus]. https://www.euronews.com/2020/12/21/how-the-crisis-in-belarus-is-politicising-a-new-wave-of-street-artists[].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Moscow-Minsk_friendship_mural_girl_with_barbed_wire.jpg[height=400]
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9O4PU5Nnk "How Much Do You Know About The Real Kazakhstan?" by Journeyman Pictures (2016) shows how Western leaders turn a blind eye to Kazakhstan's dictator at the time, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursultan_Nazarbayev[Nursultan Nazarbayev], because they have oil and are willing to cooperate with the West on the war in Afghanistan. In 2019 he was replaced by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassym-Jomart_Tokayev[Kassym-Jomart Tokayev], gotta learn more about the new one. Includes interviews with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_L._Spratlen[Pamela L. Spratlen], an US diplomat, where she diplomatically refuses to say anything meaningful.
video::eB9O4PU5Nnk[youtube,height=400,width=600]
[[dictatorships-tend-to-work-together]]
=== Dictatorships tend to work together (独裁政权倾向于合作)
The thing a dictatorship is afraid more than anything is of their own citizens, and therefore that they might be influenced by democracies to rebel against the oppression.
For this reason, the world basically always tumbles into a dictatorship vs democracy global war.
Also, since dictatorships don't need to convince their people of anything, they tend to make such alliances much faster.
But this presents a serious dilemma to dictatorships, because you can't really trust the other dictator either, as they are just waiting to put a knife behind your back at all times.
This leads to constant tensions between allied dictatorships, e.g. <<russia>> vs China:
* 2020-07-02 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3091611/why-russias-vladivostok-celebration-prompted-nationalist "Why Russia's Vladivostok celebration prompted a nationalist backlash in China" on <<scmp>>
This creates one of the most serious strategic problems faced by dictatorships. It is similar situation with organized crime.
And of course, when a smaller dictatorship makes an alliance with a larger dictatorship, they basically immediately become a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal_state[vassal state], e.g.:
* <<belarus>> and <<russia>>, see: <<moscow-minsk-friendship-mural>>.
* China and:
** <<iran>>, see: <<china-iran-relations>>
** <<pakistan>>, who is more afraid of India than China right now
* Africa
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co0RGa99W0M "Zambia: Under Chinese influence" by FRANCE 24 English (2021)
[[ipac]]
===== Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (對華政策跨國議會聯盟, 2020)
* https://ipac.global/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Parliamentary_Alliance_on_China
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/對華政策跨國議會聯盟
* hhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/西班牙
=== tsunamidemocratic GitHub takedown (2019)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50232902
https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns/blob/master/Spain/2019/2019-10-26-GuardiaCivil.md
It is a crime to criticize the royal family (Lèse majesté):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lèse_majesté_in_Thailand
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lèse-majesté
As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Gilliam[Terry Gilliam] brilliantly says in the <<the-secret-life-of-brian-2007>> https://youtu.be/hdU_6jUQI9s?t=492[]:
[[sacred-cows]]
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I was always convinced that there is no where you should't go. There are no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_cow_(idiom)[sacred cows]. And if there are, if they are really sacred, let's see how much we puncture them and see if they still float.
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Vajiralongkorn, you little piece of shit, grow some balls and learn how to take an insult. A man who cannot take an insult is not a man, but a big pussy.
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Everyone who has political power must know how to be laughed at criticized, otherwise <<dictatorship,dicatorship>> follows:
* 2020-08-24 https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/after-restricting-a-group-critical-of-thailands-monarchy-facebook-says-it-will-take-legal-action-against-the-government/ "After restricting a group critical of Thailand's monarchy, Facebook says it will take legal action against the government"
* 2017-05-17 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3578661/from-fake-tattoos-and-crop-tops-to-making-a-poodle-air-force-chief-the-king-of-thailands-maddest-moments-revealed/ "As Thai monarch Maha Vajiralongkorn attempts to sue Facebook over photos posted online, we look at the wacky royal's bizarre life" TODO real? Erm, video by 60-minutes Australia: https://youtu.be/HfF3CGVwrs4?t=84
** 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fufu_(dog).
** Topless wife birthday celebration video: https://youtu.be/HfF3CGVwrs4?t=311
* Rap Against Dictatorship
** https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCukIPSb0N6_vRVD_5VlzqQg
** https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/8/20/rap-against-dictatorship-artist-arrested-in-thailand "‘Rap Against Dictatorship' artist arrested in Thailand", artist Dechathorn Bamrungmuang arrested
** https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/16/rap-against-dictatorship-protests-thailand/
[[thai-king-hamtaro]]
.Side-by-side comparison between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajiralongkorn[Thai King Vajiralongkorn] and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamtaro[Hamtaro]. This is the Thai version of <<winnie-the-pooh>>. It https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japanese-cartoon-Hamtaro-used-by-Thai-protesters-to-mock-government[has been used by protesters] as part of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Thai_protests[2020 Thai protests]. Left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Thai_protests[photo source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Side_by_side_comparison_between_Thai_king_Vajiralongkorn_and_Hamtaro.jpg[height=400]
.Leading Thai politicians prostrate themselves before Vajiralongkorn in 2016, presumably during his ascension to the throne. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bbc-investigation-thailand-king-defamation-a7460046.html[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Thai_king_prostrated_officers.jpg[height=400]
.Suthida Tidjai, Vajiralongkorn's wife, prostrated before him during their marriage in 2016 before he officially ascended to the throne. Yes, prostration is a big thing in Thailand. An older king, Rama V, had apparently even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chulalongkorn#Abolition_of_prostration[abolished this practice in 1873]. Clearly, <<xi-jinping>> could learn a thing or two from a proper monarch like Vajiralongkorn. https://web.archive.org/web/20190723095722/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/03/thailand-coronation-king-maha-vajiralongkorn-rama-x[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Thai_king_prostrated_wife.jpg[height=400]
.Thai king Vajiralongkorn wearing a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_top[crop top] so tight that it could be called a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra[bra], and accompanied by one of his many girlfriends, in a shopping center in Munich. He can wear whatever the fuck wants, but to both wear that and enforce Lèse majesté? That's the ultimate torture for the Thai people, how can you not make fun of him??? TODO date, exact location, original report. Here is one of the many reports, https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3578661/from-fake-tattoos-and-crop-tops-to-making-a-poodle-air-force-chief-the-king-of-thailands-maddest-moments-revealed/[sample report from 2017 in a British tabloid].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Thai_king_crop_top.jpg[height=400]
[[milk-tea-alliance]]
=== Milk Tea Alliance (奶茶联盟)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_Tea_Alliance
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/奶茶聯盟
* 2021-04-08 <<twitter>> launches official support campaign for the Milk Tea Alliance: https://twitter.com/Policy/status/1379982396490010624
[[united-states]]
== United States (美国)
[[iraq-war]]
=== Iraq War (2003-2011, 伊拉克战争)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊拉克战争
This had purely political/strategic motivations. They had to fake intelligence in order to justify the war by saying that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Report_on_Pre-war_Intelligence_on_Iraq
* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/09/usa.iraq2
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War
* Katharine Gun
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Gun
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Secrets_(film)[Official Secrets (2019)]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/以色列
Israel is a military base for the <<united-states>> to protect oil reserves in the Middle East.
A popular and in <<ciro-santilli>>'s view reasonable analogy of the situation is with the apartheid:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analogy
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/以色列与南非种族隔离的类比
Clearly, the best solution for the region as of 2021 would be to just give the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank[West Bank] to the Palestinians:
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As of July 2017 it has an estimated population of 2,747,943 Palestinians, and approximately 391,000 Israeli settlers,
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For comparison, the population os Israel in 2020 was 9 million people, 20% Arab.
Just look at the map of the 2017 Oslo accords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank Clearly Palestinians are split into dozens of small islands, while Israel controls one big sea of territory around them all. It is ridiculous.
And the settler population just keeps increasing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IsraeliSettlementGrowthLineGraph.png
Basically every single country supports that resolution, except the United States due to their strategic interests, and other rich Western countries that would lose too much by fighting the US over it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine[]. Even human rights organizations from those countries recognize that:
* https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/
* 2021 https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/5/12/in-pictures-9 In Pictures: Global protests in solidarity with Palestinians
* 2020 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/06/29/what-americans-think-about-the-looming-israeli-annexation-and-trumps-middle-east-plan/ "What Americans think about the looming Israeli annexation and Trump’s Middle East plan". Even the average American citizen (from amongst the ones that know about anything about the situation) does not agree with the current situation. But of course: https://cirosantilli.com/governments-have-lost-all-power-to-companies[Governments have lost all power to companies], so nothing happens.
Europe mumbles something about "stop being naughty Israeal, I'll make an Embargo". But these never lead anywhere, because the United States has laws that prohibit Israel embargoes, and as a result this would force removal of US investments in any European country that creates such embargo. And as mentioned at https://cirosantilli.com/having-more-than-one-natural-language-is-bad-for-the-world Europe is too divided to do anything about anything compared to the United States, and so nothing ever gets done:
* 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20210424063925/https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/10/israel-annexation-boycott-europe-palenstinians-netanyahu/ "Europeans Pushing to Boycott Israel Over Annexation Should Think Twice". This article actually supports human rights violations over economic concerns
* 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/mps-press-for-sanctions-against-israel-over-west-bank-annexations MPs press for sanctions against Israel over West Bank annexations.
* 2019 https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses from <<human-rights-watch>>
The correct solution for this would be to actually force Israel to give the entire West Bank to Palestine, not only through sanctions, but also through military action supporting the independent West Bank state. But of course, it would never come to that. The USA needs Israel as a military base in the region. And if the USA would stop support, Israel would ally itself with China or Russia, as they'd be fucked without external support. Israeli settlers in the West Bank would then have a choice of staying under the new government, possibly obtaining Palestine citizenship, or moving back to Israel.
* https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-israel-does-not-want-sovereign-palestinian-state "Why Israel does not want a sovereign Palestinian state"
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYZjOuUnlU The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history by Vox (2016)
* https://ips-dc.org/why_the_us_supports_israel/
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