Famous Russian victim of so-called "anti-pedophilic" paranoia.

Health of Arrested Professor Has Sharply Worsened.
By Alexandra Solomina

In the night of 16-17 January Anatoly Ryabov suffered his second hypertonic
crisis in a week, informs his lawyer Igor Trunov.

Let us remember that Anatoly Ryabov, renowned pianist and professor at
the Central Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P I
Tchaikovsky, Honoured Worker of the Arts of the Russian Federation, long-time professor at the Conservatory, was arrested on 14 January under point (b), part 4, item 132 of the criminal code of the Russian Federation: “Violent Actions of Sexual Character”.

The facts about Ryabov’s detention have become known. The application to the prosecutor’s office was submitted by the mother of Irina, Ryabov’s student, one day prior to his arrest. The prosecutor’s office acted on the application solely on the word of the applicant. Even in Mikhail Pletnev’s case the authorities were not so rigid. The application in this case does not appear justified.

“We simply don’t understand of what he is accused,” said Ryabov’s lawyer
Igor Trunov. “There is no proof. All is absolutely unfounded, is based on the application of the mother of this girl. There were no examinations of the girl; a psychologist did not speak with her. I could never imagine that my client – and elderly man in poor health, which such positive characteristics, registered in Moscow – would be put behind bars. He could not and would not run anywhere; this was hugely unexpected for us. The judge had only one basis for locking him up: the weight of the crime of which my client is suspected. In his annual address the president said it is necessary to be involved with childhood. And with one letter a person’s reputation has been blackened!

In the prosecutor’s office Ryabov became ill from the pressure and was taken to the prison branch of the 20th hospital. Nevertheless, on 15 January the decision of the closed judicial panel was passed and Anatoly Ryabov was placed in a solitary confinement cell. It is not known why the decision was this instead of placing him under pledge not to leave a certain place, or under house arrest. As of 18 January the professor of music Anatoly Ryabov, 65 years, has been taken into custody at Pre-Trial Detention Centre No. 5 and quarantined with no visitors permitted.

In the meantime, today the facts of another firing at the Central Music School have been released. Stanislav Alexandrovich Katenin, of the wind instrument and percussion faculty, in relation to 11 year old contrabass player Lyova Lysenko. A previous victim of administrative reprisals at the school was mathematics teacher Maria Ivanovna Salazkina.

The scandal with Anatoly Ryabov, which appears to stem from quite different
motives, has not remained local. Many leading Russian media outlets have
broadcast it. As fault of the teacher has not been proven, some have hurried to attribute that the accusations will possibly not end up in a single lawsuit. The majority of the editions have made their own investigations and expressed doubt at the accusations.

“There is a struggle. The director considers Ryabov a competitor whom parents and students would like to take the seat as head. It has been explained as slander. In such cases there are two typical scenarios: the person is accused of bribery or sexual harassment. It was suggested that Ryabov leave, and nothing would come of it. Though he left, he had regrets and came to consult with me.”

According to the lawyer, Ryabov came to him at the end of 2010, a month before his arrest. The lawyer advised him to petition to have his job reinstated, asking his resignation to be nullified as it was written under pressure. The day after Ryabov made the petition for his job, the application for corruption of the 13 year old Irina was brought forward.

In turn, to hide the problems at the Central School at the Moscow Conservatory is obviously not possible. Illegal prosecutions and firings of dissenting teachers have occurred en masse. Parents have united to protect children against the orders reigning at the school. Children have been organized to boycott lessons with teacher-strikebreakers.

For example, this link leads to a shocking video of “Sex with Anfisha Chekhova” about the composer and erotomane Jaroslav Sudzilovsky, whose ballet “The Furious Phallus” was a revelation to critics and the ordinary listener. Mr. Sudzilovski now teaches composition to children at the Central Music School.

In the background of the arrest of Anatoly Ryabov, of which the reasons are
possibly far from the accusations, is a question: what and who now teach the children at the Central Music School with the mass layoffs of the teachers, teachers who are the gold that brought glory to this school?

PS: 18.01.2011 13:27 – The firing of Stanislav Katenin has not legally been
issued. Current information available is that he has submitted a letter of
resignation “of his own accord”.

http://www.classica.fm/2011/01/18/health-of-the-arrested-professor-of-music-has-sharply-worsened

My 8 euros of entrance payment were more useful than usually, I hope.

My note in the Book of replies to the "After-War", Helsingin contemporary art museum Kiasma's installation of Kristina Norman, dedicated to the Tallinn's "Bronze Soldier":

Kristina, thank you for the installation. To tell you the truth, I think that Estonian authorities were absolutely right when they removed the Soviet-era monument from its former place into the special memorial park. Firstly, because it is real symbol of Soviet (and quite bloody!) occupation of Estonia (and not only an anti-Nazi symbol), and secondly because such monument must be (if must...) located at memorial cemetery, but not at the centre of capital of the independent state.
Sincerely, - Alex Moma, Moscow (Russian citizen). 30.12.2010.

Open Letter to The FIFA Executive Committee from the members of the Russian National Tea Party Movement.

(And, of course, from me too.)


Dear Members of the Executive Committee,

Since Russia is a candidate country for hosting the 2018 world cup, we urge you not to give Russia this status.

First, in contrast to the developed countries, in Russia the bulk of the costs of organizing the world cup will be borne by the taxpayers and not those who would be willing to voluntarily contribute to the world cup. We believe that it would be unjust to force all Russians to finance the world cup, even those who are not in any way interested in football.

Secondly, as you may know, there is neither an independent judicial system, nor sufficient rule of law in Russia. The citizens’ property rights, including property rights in land plots are not adequately protected. And the existing legislation allows takings of private land plots for very loosely formulated public purposes. This raises our concern with the fate of Russian citizens whose property rights in land plots would be under threat in connection with the creation of infrastructure for the world cup.

We hope that the rights of ordinary Russian citizens are more important to you than the interests of potential small circle of well connected Russian beneficiaries from the world cup.

Appeal for a worldwide ban on female genital mutilation by the United Nations General Assembly in 2010.

We, the undersigned, human rights activists and citizens worldwide, joining together after years of struggle for female genital mutilation to be recognized and condemned as a violation of the human right to physical integrity, and conscious that a United Nations ban will give new strength and impetus to the efforts that are still needed to end the practice worldwide;
- call upon the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt a Resolution to ban female genital mutilation worldwide;

- call upon all governments, and upon all international and regional organizations, to support and promote the adoption of this Resolution in 2010;

- invite all citizens of the world to support this initiative and sign the petition to put an end to this widespread and systematic form of violence committed against women and girls, in violation of their fundamental right to physical and personal integrity.


Sign the petition:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/banfgm

According to the link from: http://www.radicalparty.org/

The Putin Principle

Ottawa - Article 31 of Russia's constitution guarantees freedom of assembly. In defence of their diminishing democratic rights and so as to protect this constitutional right of assembly, on the 31st of each month Russia's beleaguered opposition gathers to protest. Unfortunately, in Putin's Russia, notwithstanding constitutional guarantees, the democratic space has been shrinking. On August 31, peaceful protestors of Russia's democratic opposition were arrested. Vladimir Putin, commenting on the arrests of leaders of the democratic opposition, established a new tenant of Putinism; protesters have been warned by Putin that "You will be beaten on your skull with a truncheon. And that's that."


This statement was made in response to questions surrounding the arrest of activists carrying the Russian flag on August 31, a date symbolizing the right to free assembly in Article 31 of Russia's constitution. In the past several weeks opposition leaders such as 69-year-old Lev Ponomarev (a long-time human rights activist) and Mikhail Schneider (a leader in the newly formed democratic opposition movement Solidarity) have not only been arrested, they have been sentenced to prison using old Soviet-style laws which allow for prison terms for taking part "in unsanctioned meetings."

Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj commented on the imprisonment of Mr. Ponomarev and Mr. Schneider, as well as the arrest of Mr. Boris Nemtsov, leader of the democratic opposition and former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (Mr. Nemstov was arrested the day after Wrzesnewskyj introduced Mr. Nemstov who was linked by Skype to the Black Ribbon Day conference at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre organized by the Central and Eastern European Council of Canada):

"Mr. Putin has not only diminished Russia's democratic space, he is instituting a new dictatorship. As he prepares to take over Russia's presidency in 2012, Putinism's tenants appear to be:

1) state/oligarch capitalism;
2) courts subsumed to the will of the executive branch of government;
3) electoral manipulation and abuse;
4) repeated use of police intimidation of human rights and democracy activists, and growing police corruption;
5) intimidation and killing of journalists;
6) state control and revision of history;
and
7) declining religious freedom while promoting State Russian Orthodoxy."......

Read more: http://maidan.org.ua/static/narnewslviv/1284730208.html

Moscow Tea Party (Moskovskoye Tchaepitiye).

Next Libertarian Moscow Tea Party will be in Moscow. Join us on Bolotnaya square, in September, 12, from 3 P.M.

Second Part of the Radical Party's General Council. General Motion in English

http://www.radicalparty.org/en/content/general-council-general-motion-0