A surprising anti-racist development

[Daniel Rancour-Laferriere]

3 Dec 05

Colleagues,
Today's Johnson's Russia List (JRL) has a series of detailed and 
interesting articles devoted to the ruling.  As I understand it, the 
watermelon rind ad went too far, even by comparison with similarly 
racist materials put out by Zhirinovsky's LDPR.  Zhirik is apparently 
willing to toe the line in his opposition to Putin & Co., but Rodina was 
not.  So Putin, with a little help from Zhirik, and with his "soft 
authoritarianism," knocked out Rodina for the time being.

Do read JRL every day.  It is a treasure trove for Slavists.  The site 
is: www.cdi.org/russia/johnson

Regards to the list,
DRL

Elena Gapova wrote:

>The Moscow court ruling was later supported by the Supreme Court, after "Rodina" tried to appeal. The comment below re the case was made at "Echo Mosrvy" radio:
>
>http://grani.ru/Politics/Russia/Parties/m.99131.html
>Владимир Платонов
>спикер Мосгордумы
>
>Через 64 года в Москве остановили в очередной раз фашистов. В этот раз это сделала судебная власть. Этим можно гордиться.
>Самое главное - показали, что если используется грязная технология, если нарушается законодательство, то судебная власть принимает решение, и эти партии снимаются с выборов.
>В многонациональном государстве националистические высказывания не могут иметь много сторонников, а сила государства - это агрессивное меньшинство вовремя останавливать.
>
>"Эхо Москвы", 02.12.2005 
>
>e.g.
>
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>Subject: [SEELANGS] A surprising anti-racist development
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>
>I refer to this odd event in view of recent postings about racism in 
>Russia.  The ruling clearly recognizes that there IS a problem.  Would 
>anyone out there know how it came to be dealt with in this particular 
>instance?  I am astonished and puzzled.
>
>Regards to the list,
>
>Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
>
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