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Perfect.

barefooted — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 08:28:25 +0000

In reply to The *Nasty* Lady and the

Perfect.

The Nasty Lady and the

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 08:23:45 +0000

In reply to Oh, please. The Lady and the

The *Nasty* Lady and the Tramp.

How ironic is it for Trump to be taken down by a "Nastya Woman"?

Oh, please. The Lady and the

barefooted — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 07:53:48 +0000

In reply to "Nasty Little Fish" - that's

Oh, please. The Lady and the Tramp is just too easy. ;-)

"Nasty Little Fish" - that's

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 07:44:00 +0000

In reply to The whole thing is slowly

"Nasty Little Fish" - that's even better than "Reality Winner", even though the latter's a real name. Perhaps this has been scripted even for the Russian side - maybe the oligarchs want Putin out, maybe see him as consummately damaged or dangerous as Trump (or "Tramp" as they say/spell it in Russian - kind of ironic there even, the "Rich Tramp").

Wonder if Nasty has a GoFundMe to get out of Thai jail. Usually the ones who end up there are those who exploit the *local* sex trade (or partake a bit much in other substances), *not* the ones who bring it in. At least she can't fall off a balcony or have a premature drunken-stumbling brain embolism, 2 unfortunate common causes of dissident demise, and in the slammer it's hard to go missing like Mifsud did.

The whole thing is slowly

barefooted — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 07:28:56 +0000

In reply to I enjoyed watching (mho,

The whole thing is slowly going mainstream ... when I first saw it a few days ago it was tabloid-ish stuff, but now it's creeping up the ladder. (Gotta love this under the lead photo: Jailed Russian sex guru claims to have secrets).

Well, God love Nasty - she

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:08:00 +0000

In reply to I enjoyed watching (mho,

Well, God love Nasty - she knows how to tart up a good story, which has been awfully missing from this whole mess (except the somewhat underplayed and mysterious Hope Hicks, who looks exactly like she could play herself in the teledocudrama when this is all over - Inch'allah). I mean, how did we get through 1 1/2 years of this stuff with only a mental image of prostitutes peeing on a bed, which truth be told isn't quite a sexual turnon for me, and I doubt if I need to express my feelings about Kellyanne & Sarah Huckabee... (OMG, why doesn't she just change her middle/maiden name to "nepotism" or "patronage", or even "Arkansas cracker"?). But with the little Rybka fish parading her twat from Thailand to Norway - brrrr.... - this can be fodder and grist for the Daily Mirror (extra points if they pull in all of the UK's Russians who own football clubs and fill the papparazzi with delight.)

I enjoyed watching (mho,

artappraiser — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 07:51:08 +0000

In reply to Boys on Tape: Navalny exposé

(Just edited to include missing link.)

I enjoyed watching (mho, worth the extra data costs) then Googled:

“My baby knows how to speed up judges when he needs to”

By Andrei Kalikh @ Russia & Beyond blog @ OpenDemocracy.net, 27 February 2018

[....] Even before the public had time to enjoy Navalny’s film, however, a sequel began — this one launched by the Russian state. Less than a day after the investigation came out, Roskomnadzor (the Russian government’s media regulator) requested every outlet that published articles relating to the story to remove images and videos from their websites on the pretext of protecting privacy. On the evening of that same day, Roskomnadzor announced that all online information relating to Navalny’s investigation had been included in Russia’s Unified Register of banned websites. Roskomnadzor didn’t only include videos and pictures from Rybka’s Instagram and in the press, but even Navalny’s website in its entirety. On 15 February, Internet providers across Russia started to block Navalny.com. All this was done on the basis of a court ruling that took 10 minutes to make, establishing “interim measures” pending a proper ruling.

The time between the publication of the investigation and the complete blocking of Navalny’s website was seven days — an unbelievable speed for Russian courts. Here, the Russian state’s power has been used to protect the interests of a public official and an oligarch, and to punish an anti-corruption activist, rather than establishing truth and justice. “After all, my baby knows how to speed up judges when he needs to,” this was Nastya Rybka’s tender comment.

One wonders, what was all this for? [.....]

The Navalny video also

artappraiser — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:59:14 +0000

In reply to I enjoyed watching (mho,

The Navalny video also already has two paragraphs on Deripeska's wikipedia entry.

Which brings up the thought that the Wikipedia editorial system is still maintaining decent integrity, not infiltrated by Russian chaos spreaders yet!