Today's Phuck You Putin Moment: Russian police seize painting of Putin in women's underwear

[joeybee12]

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Police seized a painting of Russia's president and prime minister in women's underwear from a gallery in St Petersburg, saying the satirical display had broken unspecified laws.

The officers also removed a picture of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, his torso covered in tattoos, and two others poking fun at lawmakers who have backed legislation banning so-called gay propaganda, gallery staff said.

The police service said it had taken paintings from the "Museum of Power" gallery - based in two rooms of a flat - late on Monday after receiving reports they were illegal.

It gave no further detail but Russia does have a law against insulting authorities - an offence that carries a maximum one-year prison term.

One painting showed president Vladimir Putin wearing a tight-fitting slip and brushing the hair of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who is wearing knickers and a bra.

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-police-seize-painting-putin-womens-underwear-175741831.html

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. Oh but to hear the Snowden fans talk...Putin has no teeth at all!

I mean Russia is the very epitome of freedom of speech...... right Snowden fans?

[dionysus]

2. it's the last bastion of freedom, where true heros flee to escape justic-- er, i mean persecution...

[backscatter712]

3. Do you have any arguments that aren't logical fallacies?

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. wasn't arguing....stating facts...

you can call what you don't like fallacies if you want...doesn't make you right!

[Katashi_itto]

6. And your not even close.

[VanillaRhapsody]

8. Putin is just a Pussycat then? Is that what YOU are claiming?

Putin doesn't call the shots there? Is that what you are saying?

[Katashi_itto]

10. Nope. But don't let my comment interefere with your rant

[VanillaRhapsody]

12. Not a rant...that sound you hear is laughter!

[Katashi_itto]

13. Righht

Same principle applies here.

[VanillaRhapsody]

17. Didn't our founding fathers create a "state"?

Anti-govt types are Anarchists...just sayin'

[VanillaRhapsody]

18. Again this is DemocraticUnderground...

not AnarchistUnderground. Your opposition to "statism" says it all..

In political science, statism (French: étatisme) is the belief that a government should control either economic or social policy, or both, to some degree.[1][2][3][4] Statism is effectively the opposite of anarchism

[Harmony Blue]

5. Mr. Kraft is that you?

Why so angry at Putin?

[VanillaRhapsody]

7. who is Mr Kraft?

not angry at Putin at all! Laughing my ass off at Snowden fans for insinuating that Putin is just a puppet and has been defanged and declawed!

[Harmony Blue]

15. The owner of the Patriots

that lost a super bowl ring to Putin.

I am a fan of Snowden and I never have insinuated that Putin is weak.

[VanillaRhapsody]

16. Then it wasn't you I was talking to...it was a big discussion here last week...

they tried to say that Putin had nothing to do with the decision to let Snowden stay. Some of us found that to be preposterous.

But yes...Putin is who you run to when you think you're being persecuted! LOL

[treestar]

9. a law against insulting authorities - how authoritarian!

I thought Snowjob was against that kind of thing. That's a bit worse than classifying information on intelligence. Yet it is the US that is the bad guy! Snowjob is a nut job.

[KittyWampus]

11. He also detained opposition leader the other day:

http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-navalny-detained/25085705.html

Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, a candidate in next month's election for Moscow mayor, has been detained briefly after a campaign rally.

Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and an anticorruption campaigner and blogger, was detained onAugust 25 after a rally in the Sokolniki neighborhood of Moscow.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

14. Fuck Putin.

I think there needs to spring forth a hundred websites mocking Mr. Putin.