La Russophobe congratulates Novaya Gazeta reporter Elena Milashina on receiving the International Women of Courage Award this year. Her fearless reporting on human rights atrocities in Chechnya as one of the successors to Anna Politkovskaya and Natalia Estemirova shows her to be one of Russia’s greatest living patriots.
Александра Духанина. Задержана 27 мая 2012 года. С 29 мая под домашним арестом. 5 марта Басманный суд продлил домашний арест до 27 мая 2013 года
Alexandra Dukhanina. Arrested May 27, 2012 at the Bolotnaya Square protest. Under house arrest starting May 29, 2012 until May 27, 2013.
If you read Russian, you can find out more about Alexandra here.
Source: Ellustrator.
If a perfect photograph of Russia has ever been taken, it’s surely this one (click it to see it full size) by talented freelancer Jeremy Nicholl fora magazine piece on Gorky Park. The image of a so-called “mother” dangling her nude infant above a frozen expanse of water while perched precariously on a steep embankment of ice while her semi-nude husband makes a feeble grab for her shirttails really is worth a thousand screams. No, she’s not saving the little fellow from the frigid water, she’s dipping him in it while he screams with agony, a tradition many Russians consider charming. This is the country that dares to claim American adoptive parents, who are far, far less likely to murder a Russian child than Russian parents, are a serious risk to Russia’s future. This is a country not long for this world.
The photo above is one from a stunning series by photographer Misha Friedman titled “Photo51 — Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?” and touted recently on the “Lens” blog operated by the New York Times. Click the image to see it full size.
In the image, a Russian man beats a woman in broad daylight in the streets of Moscow, as policemen look on with disinterest. In Russia, one woman is murdered by her spouse every hour on the hour.
An exhibition of Friedman’s work will open on Feb. 15 and be on view through March 2 at 287 Spring in SoHo in New York City.
Evgenia Chirikova, Moscow, December 2011 (click the photo to see it full size).
This photo (click it to see full size), from a photo essay published by English Russia based on a trip along the Kremlin’s parapets, gets our vote for the most poetic image of neo-Soviet Russia. Right behind the Kremlin’s walls lies a huge pile of garbage! In more ways than one.
