Posted on 04/26/2015 7:11:54 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
The court in Novorossiysk gave two of the dancers 10 days in jail each, a third 15 days and two others received fines on charges of petty hooliganism.
Prosecutors had said their "erotic and sexual twerk dance" was disrespectful to historic memory and unacceptable.
Earlier this month, Russian officials closed a dance school after a similar dance video emerged on the internet.
The latest incident involves six dancers - one of them a minor who was not convicted - who had posted a video on YouTube.
"This incident of disrespect for the memory of war history is unacceptable and any attempts to desecrate sites of military glory will be stopped immediately," prosecutors said.
The sentences come as Russia prepares to mark the 70th anniversary of the World War Two victory.
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Babushka got back.
Grammy got back?
Badonkadon’t.
I will never understand this fad of shaking one’s rump like a circus animal. It’s not pretty, it’s not elegant, it’s not sensual...it’s ugly and crude. THIS waltz was absolutely gorgeous and elegant: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=laila+ali+dancing+with+stars&qpvt=layla+ali+dancing+with+stars&FORM=VQFRML#view=detail&mid=764E277516EAFCD88AAB764E277516EAFCD88AAB
LOL!
Sounds like they enforce basic respect of memorials like those to their military. Perhaps a few jailed for trashing our flag would help.
Isn’t it racist for white people to twerk?
The USSR lost 22mm+ people in WWII.
And so they should have. It is disrespectful and vile. Did anyone over 50 ever think they would see a day when we would applaud the Russians for a morally decent action that will not be done here? I didn’t.
Prosecutors had said their “erotic and sexual twerk dance” was disrespectful to historic memory and unacceptable.
And the prosecutors would be correct.
Anything does not go. There have to be boundaries of decency.
Their parents paid money for them to learn that.
What a waste.
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is more competent than Obama.
Did you make that up or are you quoting someone from 1958?
True. Some of them died helping Poland lose 1 in 6 of her citizens.
I am sure Putin has already asked one of them out.
Oh, it’s not that I’m defending the USSR. I wish our country would always defend all our men and women who died.
The older I get, the more I think on such people. They fought in shirtsleeves. No body armor, no nothing. D Day. Okinawa. Chosun. Saigon. In shirtsleeves.
Good for Russia.
Almost seems strange to see penalties being paid for lines of decorum and decency being crossed. I’ve grown so accustomed to our modern American culture, which celebrates and revels in displays of depravity, lewdness and disrespect.
Not a bad response from the Russian Govt.
How do you say twerk in Russian?
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