Siberian Children's Show Featuring Violence Against Obama to Be Changed

[pampango]

Russians find many ways to express their antipathy to Obama that have increased sharply due to the tight relations between Russia and U.S

Organizers of a children's show in the Altai region have come under fire for plans to have children burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama, prompting changes to be made to the show's script.

The show, scheduled for Feb. 18 in Barnaul to mark the spring holiday of Maslenitsa, was originally meant to include a scene in which one of the characters beats a doll made in the image of Obama, to be followed by a collective burning of Obama's effigy.

"The main character, Petrushka, beats everyone with a stick. Including the overseas hero — U.S. President Barack Obama. The script calls for him to shout: 'Sanctions! Sanctions against Russia,' for which he gets smacked in the head by Petrushka," Yevgeny Golovin, the organizer of the show, said in comments carried by regional news site Sibinfo.su.

The show was meant to end with all the participants burning an effigy of Obama, he said. But after local media made a fuss about the planned script, the organizers decided to reconsider, Golovin told Ekho Moskvy radio station on Sunday.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/siberian-children-s-show-featuring-violence-against-obama-to-be-changed/515202.html

This seems a little more drastic than the republican's and their "Freedom Fries" when they were mad at the French.

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. These are the people we're supposed to give a shit about?

[shenmue]

2. Ugh

[Igel]

3. Nothing says Mardi Gras

(or Shrove Tuesday -- maslenitsa, IIRC)

Like burning a figure in effigy. All that Russian Orthodoxy and the results of engineering human souls.

[ND-Dem]

4. Q:Who owns the newspaper?

A: The Moscow Times is the founding publication of Sanoma Independent Media (SIM) Publishing House, which was established as Independent Media in March 1992 by a group of Dutch investors headed by Derk Sauer. SIM is now the largest player in the Russian media market, with a portfolio that includes more than 50 publications and projects with a cumulative readership about 12 million and about 25 percent share of the glossy advertising market.

Since 2005, SIM has been a part of Sanoma, a leading European media holding company based in Helsinki that includes subsidiary companies specializing in the publication and distribution of periodicals.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/contact_us/


Sanoma Oyj (formerly SanomaWSOY) is a leading media group in the Nordic countries with operations in over 10 European countries, based in Helsinki. The group is also among the top five European magazine publishers and has a strong position, in addition to its native Finland, in Belgium,[2] Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and till 2015 in Ukraine...[3]Its biggest owners include Aatos Erkko and other members of the Erkko family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanoma


According to Helsingin Sanomat, for years on end Aatos Erkko was the wealthiest person in Finland.[4] He controlled directly or indirectly 23.29% of the Sanoma Corporation shares,[5] amounting to more than €453 million at the then-current trading price (29 July 2009)...His father was the politician and journalist Eljas Erkko, and his mother was the English-born Eugenia Violet Sutcliffe.[3] Erkko's grandfather Eero Erkko was also a journalist and politician, best remembered as the founder of Helsingin Sanomat.

Aatos Erkko was the largest single owner of Finland's largest media concern, holding just over 23% of the Sanoma stock. As one of the key part of Sanoma, Helsingin Sanomat is the largest newspaper by circulation in the entire Nordic region. The value of his assets were in 2012 estimated as of €600 million. Ca €300 million is in international securities managed by an investment company registered in Switzerland.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aatos_Erkko


Eljas Erkko (1 June 1895, Helsinki – 20 February 1965, Helsinki) was a Finnish politician and journalist.[1] He was a foreign minister and negotiated with the Soviet Union before the Winter War started....At the beginning of the Continuation War, Erkko was a head of POW office in Finland till 1942. After the war, Erkko was charged in court-martial in 1946, the charges were dropped.[citation needed]

Later years Erkko worked as CEO and head of corporate government of Sanoma. He was also a head of corporate government in many Finnish companies, such as Rautakirja and Suomen Tietotoimisto, and a head of supervisory board in Kansallis-Osake-Pankki. Erkko was also a head of government in the Finnish American Association.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eljas_Erkko