#masha moskaleva

[tomorrowusa]

In Putin’s Russia you can get arrested for a drawing your kid creates.

Alexey Moskalev, a single father who became the target of a felony case after his daughter got in trouble at school for drawing an anti-war picture in art class, has been arrested, the independent outlet Spektr reported on Wednesday, citing a person who knows the family.

According to Spektr, police searched the family’s home before arresting Moskalev, and his daughter, Masha, is now home alone. The outlet also reported that police visited the home of a volunteer who has been helping support the family.

Moskalev has previously expressed fears that his arrest could cause his daughter to be sent to live in a shelter.

From @ovdinfo_en

Previously reported at Meduza.

A resident of Russia’s Tula region is facing felony charges of “discrediting” the Russian army because his sixth-grade daughter made an anti-war drawing in a school art class, according to the independent outlets Spektr and OVD-Info.

Until recently, 54-year-old Alexey Moskalev was a bird breeder in the town of Yefremov, where he was raising his daughter, Masha, on his own. Masha’s mother moved to a different city when her daughter was three years old.

In April 2022, during an art lesson, Masha’s teacher asked the class to draw pictures in support of Russia’s troops in Ukraine. Masha proceeded to draw a Russian flag with the words “No to war” on it, as well as a Ukrainian flag that read “Glory to Ukraine.” The drawing also showed missiles flying from the Russian side towards a woman and her child on the Ukrainian side.

“[After that], the teacher ran to the [school] director, who called the police,” Alexey recounted.

Teachers are turning parents over to the Russian Gestapo because the kids are thinking independently of the state-approved propaganda. That sounds like what Ron DeSantis is trying to do in Florida.

BTW, the catch-all criminal charge in Russia for criticizing Putin’s war is “discrediting the Russian Army”. That’s rather absurd because the Russian Army has already discredited itself on multiple occasions both with war crimes and with almost comically inept lack of military skills.

Overall, this incident sharply points out just how paranoid and insecure Putin is. He is pooping in his pants because a 6th grader in an obscure provincial town is creating an anti-war drawing.

[mariacallous]

Alexey Moskalev is a single father from Yefremov, a town in Russia’s Tula region. Back in April 2022, his 12-year-old daughter Masha “shocked” her school teachers and principal by drawing an antiwar picture in art class. The girl’s drawing depicted a woman with a Ukrainian flag defending her child from flying missiles. Above the picture, the sixth-grader had written two slogans: “Glory to Ukraine!” and “No to war.”

The middle-schooler’s protest drawing has since resulted in a year-long ordeal for the family. Masha, now 13, is currently in state custody at a juvenile shelter. Today, her father Alexey was sentenced to two years in prison, on charges of “discrediting” the Russian military. But he wasn’t in the courtroom, having fled from under house arrest the night before.

The day after Masha first got in trouble for her antiwar picture, both the girl and her father were detained by the police. At the police station, Alexey Moskalev found out that he was being charged with discrediting the Russian army, based on his comments on social media. After a court hearing, Moskalev was fined 32,000 rubles (roughly equal to $400).

Masha was now bullied constantly at school. When the girl decided to stop going to school altogether, Moskalev didn’t insist, and his daughter switched to homeschooling.

On December 30, a convoy of five police vehicles arrived at the Moskalevs’ home. The operatives raided the place, overturning the furniture and trampling the family’s belongings. They took away all the electronic equipment and all of the family’s cash savings in both rubles and U.S. dollars: all in all, almost $5,000.

On March 1, Moskalev was arrested again, and presented with new “discrediting” charges, based on alleged social media comments about the Russian atrocities against civilians in Bucha, and also about the Olenivka prison massacre. Since March 2, Moskalev was under house arrest.

Masha Moskaleva has no contact with her father. It turns out that, as far back as January, the local juvenile commission had filed a lawsuit to limit Alexey Moskalev’s parental rights. Since May 2022, the social workers argue, the family has been on their register of at-risk families, in view of the fact that Masha’s father didn’t try to make her go back to school, while her mother lives separately and takes no interest in her daughter. The court hearing on Moskalev’s parental rights has been scheduled for April 6.

On Monday, March 27, the court considered the charges against Alexey Moskalev. While the prosecution requested two years in prison for the defendant, Moskalev himself denied his authorship of the posts in question, saying that his social media account had been hacked more than once.

In his brief concluding statement, Moskalev addressed the court:

If you ask right now, “What is your attitude to the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine,” I think that 90 percent of the people in this room will say they’re against it. And I will agree with them. What else can you say about those deaths, about people being killed? About the adults and children who are all dying. You can only condemn it, what other attitude could you possibly have.

The defendant still denied having written any “negative” or “offensive” political posts.

Moskalev’s lawyer Vladimir Bilienko was able to talk to the staff at the juvenile shelter where Masha Moskaleva is now staying. The social workers gave him some of the girl’s drawings and showed him a letter she had written to her father. “She drew a big heart at the end, and wrote: ‘Dad, you are my hero,’” says the attorney.

[songsofprotestpeacerevolution]

Pussy Riot - SWAN LAKE (by masha, diana, olga, lucy) English subtitles on video.

This song is our statement against Russian state propaganda.

“Forced patriotism” lessons have been introduced in Russian schools. Teachers force kids to form a Z formation to show support for the war. All over Russia, children are forced to write “letters of support” to occupying soldiers. Fifth-grader Timofey wrote that he wishes the russian military “to return home and not to kill people on foreign soil” The teacher condemned the child, he was bullied for “insufficient patriotism.” “Soldier, don’t kill people” was written by a boy, and this inspired us to write a song.

New history textbooks have already been distributed to high school students. To pass the exam and receive a certificate, schoolchildren must memorize propaganda — talk about the greatness of Russia, which is fighting the "fascists" in Ukraine. Children are protesting — sixth-grader Masha Moskaleva made an anti-war drawing against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Her single father was sent to prison for two years for “discrediting the Russian army,” and Masha was sent to an orphanage.

Russian state propaganda poisons people's hearts and brains with hatred. Putin's propagandists are no less war criminals than the soldiers who kill and rape the civilian population of Ukraine, or the generals who give these orders.

Russian authorities are holding thousands of Ukrainian children hostage. Children are kept in sanatoriums, where they are taught to love Russia, and if the children say that they miss Ukraine or speak Ukrainian, they are beaten. These children are often recognized as orphans and given up for adoption, although most have parents in Ukraine who are trying to find them and return them. Children are the most vulnerable in this war. Children should not suffer.

We call for: 1. immediate return of all kidnapped Ukrainian children 2. stop poisoning children with Putin's propaganda 3. to sanction Russian propagandists and Russian artists that serve this fascist propaganda.

[hiphoptothestreets]

Crowd chants “fuck war” as Russian punk rock band Наив shows support for Masha Moskaleva

Crowd chants “fuck war” as Russian punk rock band Наив shows support for Masha Moskaleva

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Crowd chants “fuck war” as Russian punk rock band Наив shows support for Masha Moskaleva

Crowd chants “fuck war” as Russian punk rock band Наив shows support for Masha Moskaleva

[garudabluffs]

Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Is Placed on Russia’s Most Wanted List

29 Mar. 2023

"Nadya Tolokonnikova, the founder of the politically charged punk group Pussy Riot, has been named one of Russia’s most wanted criminal suspects.

The news first appeared on the outlet Mediazona, an independent news site founded by the band to cover the country’s courts, law enforcement, and prison systems in an effort to combat Russia’s growing press restrictions. According to documents cited in multiple media reports, including Mediazona’s, Tolokonnikova’s name was in the Russian Interior Ministry’s database of wanted individuals for unspecified criminal charges.

Nadya Tolokonnikova, the founder of the politically charged punk group Pussy Riot, has been named one of Russia’s most wanted criminal suspects.

The news first appeared on the outlet Mediazona, an independent news site founded by the band to cover the country’s courts, law enforcement, and prison systems in an effort to combat Russia’s growing press restrictions. According to documents cited in multiple media reports, including Mediazona’s, Tolokonnikova’s name was in the Russian Interior Ministry’s database of wanted individuals for unspecified criminal charges.

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“Pussy Riot is freedom: freedom of art, speech, ideals, women’s rights, gay rights — the ability to dream and to hope for a better world,” Tolokonnikova tells Variety in a statement. “If anyone needs an example of what russia [sic] has become in terms of these social ideals, use my warrant as an example. And it is not just me, they criminalize the father of a young child, Masha Moskaleva, who draws with crayons about the war. They imprison and kill those who speak up.”

She continues, “If the west which values free speech and human rights, wants to really help fight against this man’s pathetic regime, then send Ukraine F-16s, tanks, resources to win this war. Only after this war is won by the brave free people of Ukraine can we even begin to think about any hope of rebuilding in russia [sic]. Putin and all who support his regime must be stopped, unequivocally, absolutely.”

Tolokonnikova has been a long-time activist and critic of Vladimir Putin (the band shared a short film titled “Putin’s Ashes” in January) and the Russian regime. Pussy Riot grew global attention for performing and protesting inside Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, resulting in the arrest of Tolokonnikova and fellow Pussy Riot member Maria “Masha” Alyokhina. They were charged with “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred or hostility,” which sent them both to prison for nearly two years until their release in 2013.

Still, Tolokonnikova has shown no signs of stopping. The group continues to stage several demonstrations as a means of activism and has been proactive in finding new avenues for protest — including the 2022 creation of UkraineDAO, an NFT of the Ukrainian flag that raised more than $7 million only two days after Russia’s first military invasion.

This comes just as Pussy Riot has been selected as Woody Guthrie Prize honorees for “best [exemplifying] Guthrie’s spirit and work by speaking for the less fortunate through music, film, literature, dance, or other art forms and serving as a positive force for social change.” They will be performing their multi-media show, “Riot Days,” for the first time in the U.S."

READ MORE https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/pussy-riot-s-nadya-tolokonnikova-is-placed-on-russia-s-most-wanted-list/ar-AA19fjXG

[denk-weisen]

Dies ist die Zeichnung des 13-jährigen russischen Mädchens Masha Moskaleva, woraufhin die russischen Behörden sie in ein Waisenhaus steckten und dann ihren Vater Alexei Moskalev zu einer Gefängnisstrafe verurteilten.

Wer im Vergleich dazu Deutschland als eine Diktatur bezeichnet ist unrettbar dumm oder geisteskrank.

[annoyinglydarkflower]

Ukraine war: How a Russian child's drawing sparked a police investigation

Town councillor Olga Podolskaya shows me a photo on her mobile phone. It's of a child's drawing. To the left is a Ukrainian flag with the words "Glory to Ukraine", on the right, the Russian tricolour and the inscription "No to war!". As missiles fly in from the direction of Russia, a mother and her child stand defiantly in their path. The picture was drawn in April 2022 by then 12-year-old Masha Moskaleva. Her father Alexei, a single parent, had contacted the town councillor for advice. He told her that after seeing Masha's drawing, her school had called the police. Masha Moskaleva has not been seen in public since 1 March (she is in a child facility and her father is under house arrest and is not allowed to see her.) (Source: BBC News)

To continue reading: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65015289

[petnews2day]

Ukraine war: How a Russian child's drawing sparked a police investigation

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Ukraine war: How a Russian child's drawing sparked a police investigation

By Steve Rosenberg Russia Editor, Yefremov 24 March 2023 Image caption, Masha Moskaleva has not been seen in public since 1 March In the centre of the Russian town of Yefremov is a wall covered in pictures of war. Giant photographs of masked Russian soldiers with guns and supersized letters Z and V – symbols […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/xeffa #OtherNews

[paoloferrario]

Masha Moskaleva, la 12enne russa internata in una struttura per la riabilitazione per un disegno contro la guerra- Corriere.it

vai a Masha Moskaleva, la 12enne russa internata in una struttura per la riabilitazione per un disegno contro la guerra- Corriere.it

[mariacallous]

Masha Moskaleva, from the city of Yefremov in Russia’s Tula region, was sent to a social rehabilitation center after her father, Alexey Moskalev, was arrested for “discrediting” the army. The shelter told a correspondent from the online publication 7×7 that she will not be released.

In April 2022, Masha drew an anti-war picture in school art class. The teacher had asked students to draw pictures in support of Russia’s troops in Ukraine.

Svetlana Davydova, the head of Yefremov’s commission for juvenile affairs, told Russian state broadcasting company RBC that her department filed a lawsuit in January to limit the parental rights of Moskaleva’s father, as well as her mother, who lives in a different city. Davydova claims that the family has been on a register of “families in socially dangerous situations” since 2022.

Alexey Moskalev’s lawyer says that he was never notified of the lawsuit. The attorney says he has sent complaints to the Prosecutor General and the local ombudsman regarding violations of the father’s and daughter’s rights:

Alexey is under house arrest. According to the court order, he’s allowed contact only with his lawyer, an investigator, and anyone who lives in the apartment, which is only Masha. My client is out of food, I live [far away], an investigator won’t bring him food, and they won’t release Masha […] even though she has a constitutional right to live with her father. Even if a neighbor drops off food, this will be considered a violation of the terms of house arrest, and could risk returning [Alexey] to jail.

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Russia, fa un disegno a scuola per la pace in Ucraina. Incriminato il padre

Mosca – È iniziato tutto durante l’ora di educazione artistica. Era l’aprile 2022. L’insegnante ultraottantenne della scuola n. 9 della città di Efremov, regione di Tula, ha chiesto agli studenti di disegnare un’immagine a sostegno delle truppe russe in Ucraina. Ma Masha Moskaleva ha fatto di testa sua. Ha disegnato una donna con una bambina, missili che volavano verso le loro teste e due…

[mariacallous]

Social workers are looking to place Masha Moskaleva with a foster family, due to the criminal prosecution of her father Alexey Moskalev, arrested last week in Belarus after fleeing house arrest. Russia’s Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova told the media about several foster families now being considered for Masha, during a Tuesday press-conference.

Alexey Moskalev has been sentenced to two years in a penal colony, allegedly for social media posts “discrediting” the Russian army and the “special military operation” in Ukraine. The FSB investigated Moskalev after his daughter Masha turned in an antiwar drawing during an art class at the public school.

Lvova-Belova said that she has traveled to the Tula region to meet with Masha Moskaleva at the juvenile shelter where she is now. Masha’s mother Olga Sitchikhina has been estranged from the girl since the child was two. Although Sitchikhina has, apparently, considered picking up her daughter from the shelter, Lvova-Belova says this isn’t very likely to happen. “Mom has promised to come several times, and she didn’t. She doesn’t keep in touch with the girl. They have a complicated relationship,” said the official.

In the coming days, the court will consider limiting both parents in their rights, said Lvova-Belova, without specifying Alexey Moskalev’s current location.

[mariacallous]

The Russian authorities have dropped the custody case against the parents of Masha Moskaleva, the Tula sixth-grader whose father was hit with charges of “discrediting” the Russian military after she drew an anti-war picture at school last year.

Vladimir Biliyenko, the lawyer representing Masha’s father, called the decision an “important moral victory,” and thanked “all of the caring people who worried for this family.”

The juvenile affairs commission for the city of Yefremov, where Masha Moskaleva lived with her father, announced two days after that it wouldn’t seek to restrict Alexey’s parental rights because Masha, who is now in her mother’s custody, has begun attending school again.

[mariacallous]

Russian sixth-grader Masha Moskaleva, whose anti-war drawing at school drew the ire of the Russian authorities and was followed by a felony conviction against her father, is now in the custody of her mother, Olga Sitchikhina, Russian Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova said on Wednesday.

According to Lvova-Belova, Moskaleva wasn’t given to her mother earlier because she didn’t want to be, and “by law, her opinion must be taken into account.” Since then, however, she’s changed her mind, the ombudswoman said.

“Olga has already picked Masha up from the social rehabilitation center, where Masha had been sent at her own request. Her mom is currently not limited in her parental rights, so it was sufficient to terminate the agreement on the child’s temporary placement in the institution,” Lvova-Belova wrote on Telegram.

A state-owned local news outlet in Tula, where Moskaleva is from, published photos of Moskaleva and her mother together.