re: Female Activist Nadia Tolokonikovoy (Russian) IWDHI International edition

Siberia isn't so bad.

It isn't the Siberia of old...

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It isn't the Siberia of old...

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Or.. maybe it is...

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Like the Pussy Riot’s Tolokonnikova, Bakhmina was sent to a colony in Mordovia, a region some 250 miles from Moscow. (On Wednesday, it was confirmed that Tolokonnikova ended up in the same colony where Bakhmina did time.) The train ride there took two nights and almost two full days. Women were locked in crowded cages, she said, and only allowed to use the bathroom twice during the trip; otherwise, they had to improvise for sanitation—a calculated humiliation.


Upon arrival at the penal colonies, the Pussy Rioters will have to give away their ordinary clothes and wear dark blue or black prison overalls. They may be allowed to keep sweaters or tights, but only in dark colors. Their hair will be covered by traditional woolen scarves. They will likely not have access to hot water to do laundry, nor any place to dry it. During the first two weeks, called the “quarantine,” the prison will register the newcomers with their units. Each one houses around 100 women who sleep in bunks in a large, open barrack, with anywhere from 15 to 40 women to a room.


Most of the day is occupied with work. Women sew prison uniforms in the Mordovia colonies, while one prison in Perm has a more creative form of labor—drawing animations for cartoons. The workday begins at 6 a.m. with morning exercises outside—no matter how cold it is, and temperatures in Perm can plummet to 20 below—and continue until 4 p.m. Even after the official workday is done, an inmate’s time is carefully constricted, and they rarely find a free hour to read or write a letter home.

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2 yrs of that for a song, would suck.

And they're not bunking with murderers.

But the prisoners are not divided up according to the gravity of their convictions, so that those convicted of “hooliganism” or economic crimes can end up sharing a unit with violent criminals and murderers

The Pussy Rioters—one of whom is a former philosophy student; the other, a sensitive poet—will surely find their fellow inmates to be very different from their former colleagues. Most women in Bakhmina’s barrack were murderers. “Of the 90 women in my unit, 72 had murder convictions,” she said.

dammit...that link is blocked. I'll have to watch it tonight.

Perhaps I should create a pregnant Biology Museum Pussy Riot cartoon for shits and giggles...

is Chicken Russian?

wood buy that hat