Posted on 01/28/2005 6:45:05 AM PST by blackminorcapullets
I heard about it from Mishah first, and then it was on yesterday's NTV evening news: a Russian-language web portal called the Russian National Literary Network has issued a "Directive on Limiting the Themes of Literary Works."
The Directive mainly concerns two of the Network's writing sites, Proza.ru (prose) and Stihi.ru (poetry). At a glance, the sites resemble a cross between Zoetrope.com and LiveJournal.com, inviting aspiring authors to post their work for review by other members. As of 9 pm today, Proza.ru has 22,313 members, 188,457 stories and 277,077 reviews; Stihi.ru lists 67,115 members, 1,609,066 poems and 2,132,558 reviews.
Even though today Dmitriy Kravchuk, the Network's coordinator and the author of the Directive, has postponed the implementation of the Directive "due to the negative reaction of the literary community and the discovery of a number of shortcomings," its text still appears online.
Here's its translation:
The Directive on limiting the themes of literary works published on the Internet resources of the Russian National Literary Network
1. On the Internet resources of the RNLN it is forbidden to publish literary works and forum messages covering the following themes:
- The special operation of the Russian troops in the Chechen Republic during 1991-2004 [actually, the so-called "special operation" officially began on Dec. 11, 1994, not in 1991...]
- Terrorist acts against citizens of the Russian Federation
- Opposition of certain citizen groups to implementation of the Laws of the RF and the Decrees of the President of the RF (in particular, the Law on Monetization of the Benefits [which has caused the Babushka Revolution]
2. On the Internet resources of of the RNLN it is forbidden to publish literary works and forum messages, which include personal mentions (with the first or last name) of individuals belonging to one of the categories of the Class A public officials (in accordance with Appendix 1). At the same time, it is allowed to mention the individual's title, as long as this mention is connected with the execution of state functions and not with his personal qualities [sic].
3. On the Internet resources of of the RNLN it is forbidden to publish literary works and forum messages, which include mentions in a negative context of the Class B public officials (in accordance with Appendix 2). A negative context is the identification of the mentioned individual as a negative literary hero by literary experts affiliated with the RNLN.
4. On the Internet resources of of the RNLN it is forbidden to publish literary works and forum messages, which include mentions in a positive context of the Class C individuals (in accordance with Appendix 3). A positive context is the identification of the mentioned individual as a positive literary hero by literary experts affiliated with the RNLN.
Literary works with content prohibited by this Directive will have to be deleted by their authors before Feb. 1, 2005. If the works containing the prohibited content are discovered after Feb. 1, 2005, the site's moderators are obliged to block the pages and all works of these authors without the possibilty of renewing [membership] later.
Organizational Committee of the Russian National Literary Network
Appendix 1. Categories of the Class A public officials.
It is forbidden to publish literary works, which include personal mentions (first or last name) of individuals belonging to the following categories:
- President of the RF and members of his family - Head of the government and ministers of the RF - Members of the Federation Councils [sic] of the Federal Assembly of the RF - Deputies of the State Duma of the RF who are members of the United Russia faction [the pro-Putin majority in the Russian Parliament] - Governors of the federal centers of the RF - Mayors of the cities of the RF
Appendix 2. Categories of the Class B public officials.
It is forbidden to publish literary works and forum messages, which include mentions in a negative context of individuals belonging to the following categories:
- Heroes of Russia - Heroes of the Soviet Union, who received this title during the Great Patriotic War - Serving officers of the Russian Army, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Federal Security Service, Federal Guards Service, Intelligence Service in the rank higher than the Colonel and First-Rank Captain (inclusive) - Representatives of the RF state on duty - Members of the United Russia Party and the Walking Together public movement [a pro-Putin youth organization]
Appendix 2. Categories of the Class C individuals.
It is forbidden to publish literary works and forum messages, which include mentions in a positive context of individuals belonging to the following categories:
- Individuals wanted by the federal authorities on charges of plotting terrorist acts against RF citizens - Individuals killed as the result of special operations of the Russian troops in the Chechen Republic, those who resisted or were accused of plotting terrorist acts against citizens of the RF - Individuals charged with involvement in international terrorist organizations - State authorities and soldiers of the Fascist Germany of the Great Patriotic War period, as well as individuals who collaborated with the Fascist Germany
After wasting an hour translating this, I'm more or less speechless. The only thing I can say is that this once again confirms my view that Stalin was ourselves, in a way, and Putin is ourselves, too.
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And here's a translation of a wonderful poem one of the members of Stihi.ru has recently posted on the site:
PRESIDENT by Thinkerbell
PutinPutinPutinPoo! PutinPutinPutinPoo! Poopoopoo! Poopoopoo! PutinPutinPutinPoo!
© Copyright: Thinkerbell, 2005 Code: 1501261784
I stopped when I got to Pravda, a communist hack website/news paper that is also very anti-Putin, since the Communists keep loosing to him. I think Pravda's main readership is here in the US.
Why would you possibly need to go to Russia, speak to Russians or even know a Russian to be an expert on Russians. After all, everything that is evil is Russian, and walla, you're an expert on Russia.
"Many western Europeans, who are closer to Russia, are personally afraid to be there."
Gee, I wonder why? I correspond with a number of Europeans close to the border. I will email them and ask them why Russia gives them the jitters. I will start with my buddy in Finland, and then post their responses one by one to the appropriate thread (maybe I will create a thread for their responses...could be very educational). BTW, thanks for your posts. Too many people are afraid of the Putin uber allis crowd. I think it's about high time FReepers get to speak their mind on the subject of Russo/US/European/etc relations--TTS
A nice scientific one:
Spiderboy's dream to walk comes true owing to unique operation
Gee, what papers in America have similar titles...I keep seeing them every time I check out at a counter in the grocery store...now let me see...
Psychic security department protects Russian presidents from external psychological influence -
Americans have created radiators of modulated signals, which control people's behavior thousands of kilometers from afar
Or better yet:
Leonardo da Vinci's secret lab discovered
And only Pravda has the pravda on that one.
"As for selling nukes to Iran, that is a light water nuke, which is what WJC gave to North Korea."
So now you are comparing Putin's KGB-controlled Russia to the Commie-symp Bill Clinton? Have you no feel for your audience at all? Indeed, there is plenty of circumstantial evidence to suggest that your buddy Bill Clinton was recruited by the Commies when he fled to the Communist block during the Vietnam War. Like I said, it is clear you will never disagree with Putin and his KGB cronies...EVER.
But, TTS, perhaps you should worry about what's going on here, at home, and the attempts by Congress to do the same, and these attempts pre-date Russia's:
"The Internet Is Not A Television
The Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC), a broad coalition of library and civil liberties groups, online service providers, newspaper, book, magazine and recording industry associations, and over 56,000 individual Internet users, represents the entire breadth of the Internet community. The CIEC was assembled in February of 1996 to challenge the CDA on the grounds that the Internet is a unique communications medium, different from traditional broadcast mass media which deserves broad First Amendment protections.
Unlike television and radio, which has a limited channel capacity and affords viewers little control beyond the channel button and the on/off switch, every Internet user is a publisher with the capacity to reach millions of people at very low cost. Individual Internet users also have tremendous control over the content they receive online, and can prevent their children from viewing objectionable material, whether sexually explicit or otherwise, by employing inexpensive and easy-to-use blocking and filtering technologies which can filter based on the individual tastes and values of parents, not the federal government.
By imposing broadcast-style content regulations on the open, decentralized Internet, the CDA severely restricts the first amendment rights of all Americans and threatens the very existence of the Internet itself. Although well intentioned, the CDA can never be effective at controlling content on a global medium, where a web site in Sweden is as close as a site in Boston. The CIEC case is based on the argument that the only effective and constitutional way to control children's access to objectionable material on the Internet is to rely on user control.
It is also important to note that the CDA is not about child pornography, obscenity, or using the Internet to stalk children. These are already illegal under current law. Instead, the CDA prohibits posting "indecent" or "patently offensive" materials in a public forum on the Internet -- including web pages, newsgroups, chat rooms, or online discussion lists. This would include the texts of classic fiction such as the "Catcher in the Rye" and "Ulysees", the "7 dirty words", and other materials which, although offensive to some, enjoy the full protection of the First Amendment if published in a newspaper, magazine, or a book, or in the public square.
The outcome of this case will have a tremendous impact on the future of the First Amendment in the information age. "
ping
Because most of the "orange" ones come from that side of the house, as most of the Croatian nationalists are connected to the former Croatian fascists and Hitler's allies.
In 1945, they all sought refuge in the Vatican, fascist Spain, fascistoid Latin America (Argentina and Chile), as well as the U.S. as staunch anti-communists, and as victims of communist repression.
This is off topic but how does a country get a Patriarch for its Church. American is a young country as opposed to the age of Russia or Greece.... so, how does a country the size of the USA not have a Patriarch.
Thanks, your comments about your Church piqued my interest.
Welcome to 1984 America, the kiddies have finally been well trained.
Lion in Winter offers us the following when asked which sight he preferred on the M14 (as he was in the US military)
GarySpFc
Have you checked the hilarious responses from your fellow veteran buddis about the M14?
So did you prefer the peep sight or open sight?
"The argument of the governor of Moscow has been supported by deputy head of federal agency for press and mass communications (Rospechat, former Ministry of Press) Andrei Romanchenko. During his Wednesday's speech at the conference entitled "Information security of Russia in global information age," he proposed to create a unified system of the so-called 'content filtering' in Russia."
This is so sad - Russia is doomed to piral out of control and crash - such a shame and especially for my Russian friends. They had so much promise 10 years ago but like horses, they run back into the flames of the burning barn because its the only security they know.
At least Ukraine has managed to pull itself from this mess.
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