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Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison in absentia
- dralley 3y ago"for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine" IMO that context deserves to be in the title, as it was in the original headline. I don't quite understand why it was left off when posted here.
- mschuster91 3y agoHN submissions are limited in title length
- dralley 3y agoThere are ways to shorten that headline that don't leave out such critical details.
- Loughla 3y agoMetro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhivsky receives 8 years for criticizing Russia. There, I did it.
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- mvdtnz 3y agoReceives 8 years of what? That is much less clear.
- BWStearns 3y agoFree ice cream. “Receives $X years” Is an idiomatic way of expressing prison terms. Same kind of thing as saying “20 to life”.
- resolutebat 3y agos/receives/sentenced to/
- sebzim4500 3y agoThat misses out the crucial point that he isn't actually in Russia, and therefore presumably won't serve any of those eight years.
- DotaFan 3y agoIt wasn't hard to guess tho.
- Axsuul 3y agoAlso he's not currently in Russia.
- riidom 3y agoConveniently placed on the very bottom of the article. Cheap.
- londons_explore 3y agoUncited too...
- davidgerard 3y agothis is a reblog of https://apnews.com/article/russia-crackdown-navalny-court-dmitry-glukhovsky-4d35046224f7f0f2cba076bb1544fe4a https://apnews.com/article/russia-crackdown-navalny-court-dm...
- pphysch 3y agoHow realistic would a political prisoner swap of Navalny and/or Glukhovsky for Assange be?
- DaOne256 3y agoAssange sits in a british prison. I think you mean Snowden?!
- pphysch 3y agoPardoning Snowden in return for pardoning Glukhovsky would make sense, since neither is currently in captivity. But both Navalny and Assange are actual political prisoners in similar situations, so couldn't they be swapped & liberated (in exile)? Seems it would benefit the popularity of Western leaders.
- londons_explore 3y agoSnowden is 'worth' far more to the USA than Glukhovsky is to Russia.
- mushbino 3y ago"Freedom of speech". US is no better than Russia.
- londons_explore 3y agoCareful - with that kind of attitude you'll end up on a no-fly list...
- JohnBooty 3y agoIn what country on earth is divulging classified information (ala Snowden) protected under "freedom of speech?" Criticizing a war is not even remotely in the same league as divulging classified information.
- ajuc 3y agoThis is what freedom of speech is all about, not insulting the minorities you dislike.
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- Eddygandr 3y agoKey bits of info here: > Glukhovsky was found guilty of posting text and video messages on his social media channels accusing Russian soldiers of committing crimes in Ukraine. Prosecutors dismissed Glukhovsky's allegations as fake. > Fortunately for Glukhovsky, he is not actually in Russia, and was sentenced in absentia. His current whereabouts are unknown. Thankfully he isn't anywhere to be found, hopefully he made it to a safe country.
- riku_iki 3y agostill a big hit on someone's life with being forced to abandon own country and go through all asylum and adaptation process somewhere else..
- jacquesm 3y agoIt beats the alternatives by a considerable distance.
- Eddygandr 3y agoOh of course, the title made me think he was already in some gulag somewhere though.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoThe Russians are known to reach out, after dissidents living abroad, though.
- a_bonobo 3y agoSome recent examples are a daylight shooting of a former Chechen Rebel commander in Berlin [1], Shapoval's death by carbomb in Kiyv [2], and of course, Litvinenko's Polonium poisoning in London [3]. Glukhovsky is wise in not announcing where he is. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53091298 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53091298 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksym_Shapoval https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksym_Shapoval [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
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- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoAs someone who remembers well the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, and lived in Russia for a period during the tumultuous 90s, it's really sad to me how the hope of that era (despite the fact that it could easily be argued that what happened in the 90s really set the stage for today's government in Russia) has devolved into the autocratic dystopia that is present day Russia (and China, for that matter). Sometimes I can't decide if Gen X in the US was the luckiest or unluckiest generation. On one handed we got to spend our teens and 20s during the 90s, one of the most hopeful/optimistic periods in human history (fall of the Iron Curtain, US budget surpluses, rise of the Internet), but on the other hand we got to see it all reverse in a scant 20 years: liberal democracy teetering across the globe, climate change not being some far off thing but an immediate concern, unimaginable wealth inequality, the rise of technology as a force used to destroy our social fabric, and just generally feeling so many people be angry/scared/depressed all the time. Hopefully "this too shall pass". Edit: since many people seem to be misunderstanding what I was saying: yes, I know Russia was a complete, corrupt shit show in the 90s - I saw it first hand, and it was really, really sad. What I meant is that there was a ton of hope by many people (at least the Russians I knew/lived with in Moscow) when communism first fell that they would be able to transition to a successful democracy. Much of the sadness was that potential never came to fruition.
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- mushbino 3y agoHope in Russia in the 90's? That's not what you're saying is it? Yeltsin staged a coup with the help of the US, leading to the largest drop in life expectancy in recorded history, and a never before seen rise in crime, and massive inequality with the rise of the oligarchs thanks to the Chicago School economists who implemented shock therapy.
- FreshStart 3y agoThe killing fields of that ideology had ripe harvests.. Insane that people can still revive all that, while other hate crime ideologies stay dead one disproven.
- Arch-TK 3y ago"Glukhovsky was found guilty of posting text and video messages on his social media channels accusing Russian soldiers of committing crimes in Ukraine." He literally posted a video of Russian soldiers committing crimes in Ukraine. I love the word play here. "Accusing." "How dare you accuse me of murdering that man by showing everyone a video of me murdering that man !? I am taking you to court for slander!"
- imiric 3y agoIn a post-truth world, facts don't actually matter. Reality is determined by power and influence.
- morkalork 3y ago"The verdict is always known before the trial begins. And it's always the same." "In that case, why bother with a trial at all?" "Because the people demand it. They enjoy watching justice triumph over evil every time. They find it comforting
- FreshStart 3y agoYes yes Russian cynicism.. All countries are this dark and run down.. We are normal. So normal we can not allow any defectors from that dark grim mir. Which is what maidan was. Can't have working alternatives, proving you wrong in the hood. It just can't compete and coexist, without that film of rot. And as a defense it exports it's nightmare to the world.
- binarypop 3y agoThis is the reason why we can't do anything in Russia. The power here is trained to find the growth points of potential protest organizers and destroy them at the stage of origin. Recently, Navalny was tightened by measures in prison and extended his term. Any organizer of the rally is put on a pencil and special forces come to it and his relatives and knocks out the doors. The rest understand that jokes are bad. All social networks and Russian chats are now supervised by Putin's close associates. They have access to correspondence in chats and SMS and there are special algorithms that can find these points in the field. No jokes. You will be caught when you are still small and raped in prison if you continue to bend your line. Even Navalny, who was simply a tremendous popularity among young people in the late 10s, can no longer do anything with this. What else to expect from the country of total repressions and terror in the past and the country in which power is privatized by oligarchs from the special services. The only achievement of Putin is his psychopathic ability to isolate and destroy people. Well, clearly working on psychology clinging to the vile historical past in which one of the relatives or relatives of friends could be in the frosty camps of the Far North (read at your leisure about USSR concentration camps). They don’t just do anything with this but on the contrary the Kremlin propagandists encourage not to be forgotten so that people do not relax and knew "their place". Any public protest in large cities now use face recognition alghorithms + phone location. And for each oligarch there is a folder with crimes - otherwise you simply will not become an oligarch without gluing like in typical Italian movie about the mafia. To not jump from the boat. The exception is Oleg Tinkov - a kind of punk in Russian business.
- penneallagricia 3y agoNavalny is a corrupt racist, politically a Russian Guaidó. If he's all the opposition to be found in Russia, then there is no opposition.
- dralley 3y agoNemtsov was assassinated in 2015, Kara-Murza is in jail, Kasparov left the country after being arrested and threatened.
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- 0xDEF 3y agoAh the good old classic of accusing Russian dissidents of being Jews or crypto-Jews. A tradition as old as Stalin. FYI Dmitry Glukhovsky is neither Jewish nor Israeli.
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- 0xDEF 3y agoHe also conveniently made comments pretending to be Ukrainian but spelling it "Kiev".
- cpursley 3y agoRussians don’t make a big stink when people call Mahskvah “Moss-COW”. The word policing in the English language world is insular and annoying (especially considering their extreme lack of foreign language competency). Different languages have different pronunciations of place names; get over it.
- egoregorov 3y agowhen i die i pray to be reborn as a ukrainian
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- moribvndvs 3y agoFor other readers: Gonzalo Lira is a far right vlogger that has been accused of being a pro-Putin propagandist. It’s not my intent to convince you he is or isn’t, but I have a big fucking problem with OP’s naked attempt at false equivalence.
- slily 3y agoSwap the politics and it looks exactly the same. Solely based on your comment anyway, I don't know either character. You should be aware of your own bias. It is disturbing to see Western "liberals" justify persecuting their political opponents.
- sixQuarks 3y agoExactly. Look how my comment is getting downvoted. The hypocrisy is palpable. It doesn't matter how repulsive you think this man his, he's being jailed for what he said. How is this any better than Russia?
- simonh 3y agoIt looks like Lira is a grade A scumbag, but he seems to be a very careful scumbag. If he’s being persecuted for voicing opinions, no matter how distasteful, that’s a problem.
- wkat4242 3y agoWow, it's brave that he took a stand like this. Even though he's not in the country. Kudos! Ps great books too.
- The_Colonel 3y agoRussia's sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss is worrisome. What can bring some hope for the future? I mean Russia is not going to become a western style democracy anytime soon, but some kind of normalization would be welcome. Maybe after the current generation of the KGB guard Putin/Patrushev/Bortnikov... retire? They're all in their 70s ...
- ttyprintk 3y agoIf age is a concern, maybe watch Dyumin. He could move Putin to safety, but my money is on Patrushev being able to protect him in the long term.
- tjrgergw 3y agoCue the "America bad" crowd on how Russia is great. > US is no better than Russia. [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37113866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37113866
- samr71 3y agoHas anyone seen Ricky Vaughn these days?
- secondary_op 3y agoGlukhovsky, as a creator of fictional universe a very pessimistic and dystopian should draw a clear line between reality and fiction. However, it seems like he is strongly attracted to his fantasies and truly desires for Russia to become a manifestation of his fictionalized works. It's either that, or he is being financially incentivized as an anti-Russian propaganda tool.