Viktor #Pivovarov was fined for discrediting #russia #redarmy for writing:

“The cult of war is an integral part of all #totalitarian inhumane regimes. Worshiping the god of war isn’t just temporary insanity. It is a mark of the even greater psychosis and #warmongering lunacy to come in World War III, which won’t just be against #Ukraine … The cult of war and victory will be key to the ideology of the future #antichrist "

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/10/14/troublesome-priests-en

And now he has been fined again

"Surely, by convicting the priest, they're admitting they're behind the attack of the #Kakhovka_HPP?"

A court in #Russian #Kuban has fined 86-year-old priest #Viktor_Pivovarov 150,000 rubles in a criminal case for "discrediting" the #Russian military.

The case against #Pivovarov was initiated because of his article, "The answer to the question that worries everyone today: what is this war?"

Today I have learned that toxic sh****le by the name of linux.org.ru has a mastodon instance. It's called lor.sh and doesn't advertise affiliation. At least one of their moderators is advertising the enemy of Ukraine and the West @drq on their peertube instance.

Remember, the situation with #TVRain (a supposed liberal TV channel) doing fundraising for #russian #army is just an example of a general trend of pseudo-liberals waging information war (admittedly, sometimes inadvertently, by virtue of carrying deep-rooted imperialist worldview). In case of #TVRain they were stupid enough to go overt, but the plague still spreads via #meduza, #redakciya and other media. Remember that #redakciya under Mr. #Pivovarov are openly using nazi tropes to paint Baltic states and Baltic people as a threat to russia and russians. They sneak this into criticism of putin and many people overlook it. But that's exactly how good propaganda works. It needs to penetrate deeper than shallow "us vs them", it plants tropes, ideas, concepts and then, when the time is right, it utilises those to achieve whichever goal those with power need to be achieved.

Social media accounts employing propaganda tropes, slurs towrads Ukrainians, nazi slogans, regardless of intent, are ticking time bombs, as propaganda waves ripple through social networks, causing an avalanche effect.

Don't fall for covert russian #imperialism, defederate mastodon.ml, call out and report overt rushism, keep track of the enemies of the West.

We have to not repeat mistakes of #WW2 and make sure that those supporting russia and/or putin don't have a way into the Western society. We failed with letting nazis roam around freely after the #WW2.

We fucked with #NeverAgain, let's at least not fuck up with accountability for the enemies!

Slava Ukraini! Death to occupiers!

RT @SLagodinsky: Along with 38 MEP colleagues, I call on @JosepBorrellF to monitor the horrendous sentencing of another parliamentarian, Alexei #Gorinov in Moscow. We also stand with @vkaramurza, @IlyaYashin, #Pivovarov. Calling a war a war is not a crime! Nor wanting to live in a free country!

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/bueti/status/1551530322222882817

RT @AnnaFotyga_PE: Putin na powrót zamienia Rosję w więzienie narodów, przeciwko czemu bohatersko walczą Ukraińcy i Białorusini.
Podziwiam postawę @vkaramurza @IlyaYashin #Pivovarov #Gorinov, którzy pomimo represji wojnę nazywają wojną, a zło złem.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/SLagodinsky/status/1549842040338407424

Along with 38 MEP colleagues, I call on @JosepBorrellF to monitor the horrendous sentencing of another parliamentarian, Alexei #Gorinov in Moscow. We also stand with @vkaramurza, @IlyaYashin, #Pivovarov. Calling a war a war is not a crime! Nor wanting to live in a free country!

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/SLagodinsky/status/1549789074046730242