Putin Gets Involved in Case Against Mother Who 'Outed' Russian Troops; Released from Detention

[pampango]

President Vladimir Putin will personally consider a petition advocating for the pre-trial release of Svetlana Davydova, a mother accused of treason for informing Ukrainian diplomats of suspected Russian troop movements, the president's spokesperson said Tuesday.

The charges against Davydova stem from a phone call made to the Ukrainian Embassy last April, in which she allegedly warned Ukrainian diplomats that Russian troops might have been deployed to Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. After initially admitting to having made the phone call and passing on such information, Davydova later retracted the confession and said it had been given under pressure from investigators, newspaper Kommersant reported Tuesday.

Initially, Davydova said she had noticed that a military base near her home had been almost completely emptied, adding that she overheard a soldier on a bus in Smolensk telling someone he was being deployed on a mission. Fearing that this would lead to a spike in violence in Ukraine, where a conflict was brewing between pro-Russian separatists and forces loyal to Kiev, she informed her husband and the Ukrainian Embassy, according to earlier reports.

The case has outraged many prominent human rights activists and triggered an outpouring of support since Davydova was taken into custody on Jan. 21. Apparently aware of the building support for Davydova, Peskov promised that the Kremlin would consider the petitions started by human rights activists as soon as they were received, Kommersant reported Tuesday. "The situation is, without a doubt, headline-making," Dmitry Peskov said.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/putin-gets-involved-in-case-against-mother-who-warned-ukraine-against-russian-troops/515352.html

Mother Accused of Treason Released From Detention, Laywer Says

Russian investigators have agreed to free from detention a woman accused of high treason after calling Kiev's embassy in Moscow to say Russian troops might be heading to east Ukraine, one of her lawyers said Tuesday.

Defense lawyer Sergei Badamshin said by telephone that Svetlana Davydova would, however, have restrictions placed on her movements and she still faces the charge of treason.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/mother-accused-of-treason-released-from-detention-laywer-says/515364.html

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1. feel the freedom. nt

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2. I wonder what would happen

here in the U.S?

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3. You mean if we invaded Canada

and a Canadian woman was arrested for informing the Canadian military? What would happen in the US?

[JackRiddler]

9. No need for ridiculous hypotheticals.

Lynne Stewart. Authorities have carte blanche to construct "terrorist" cases on the basis of expressions of support or suspicion of communication.

Five million Russian speaking people have their historic homeland in the territory currently being attacked, shelled and defamed as "terrorist" by the Kiev regime. A million of them are refugees in Russia. If Moscow is helping them, and while doing so engaging in an insane proxy war with NATO, at least it's not drone-bombing weddings in Mexico - whereas the U.S. is doing so in Yemen.

So convenient to demonize imperialists in another country, instead of seeing the monstrous military machine operating out of your own.

Can you really say these words are no longer true?

"My government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

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10. It's an exact parallel

How nice for you to worry about the racially superior ethnic Russians and their historic homeland, saved only by virtue of Russia's humanitarian tanks and bombs. Spare me the bullshit.

I didn't demonize. I asked a logical question based on the other poster's comment, yet there you come to justify imperial aggression. Yet no citing from Lyndon Larouche here like the Putin apologists pull out on DI. A quote from MLK from a half century ago doesn't justify the imperial intervention in the 21st century you are working so hard to legitimate. No one here is justifying foreign interventionism but you pro-Russian authoritarians.

[JackRiddler]

11. You are not an honest interlocutor.

The name of the man I cited is Martin Luther King Jr. I will not be pushed into your rhetorical corner, madame.

Much as right wingers and war parties bizarrely want to appropriate King, there is no doubt how he would be standing on our government's devotion to the new Cold War, or its recent destruction of Libya (how come no one's talking about that liberation action any more?), or its use of remote-control death machines to murder civilians on the other side of the planet, who pose no conceivable threat and have done nothing other than be in the wrong place according to the judgement of an algorithm.

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13. The only one justifying empires here is you

You make the mistake of assuming because I am critical of Putin that means I endorse US imperialism. I see a lot of that around here, and the only thing I can figure is that it comes from some Hollywood version of good guys vs. bad guys. There are no good guys. The whole of geopolitical relations is a clusterfuck, with each party acting in their national interests and refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the others interests. There are no guys in white or black hats. You claim to oppose imperialism, but fall all over yourself to justify it in the case of Russia. Unlike you, I justify it nowhere. That you use King to try to justify armed incursions on behalf of one ethnic group over another is the limit. King had nothing to do with the likes of Putin or you. He was an African American leader. His life deserves better than to be used by imperialists to justify foreign incursions. You have the nerve to call me dishonest when you project onto me some one dimensional position that reflects a simplistic way of looking at the world that I do not subscribe to.

No one forced you to engage in conversation with me. You followed me into this thread and picked an imaginary fight to justify your favorite war. Take your war mongering elsewhere. You think you're so much better than the neocons, when in fact you have a lot in common with them. You are simply stumping for another side, another empire and another slate of killings.

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4. I dunno, when we invade Canada and then lie about it we can find out nt

[JackRiddler]

12. Is this the talking point of the day?

What does the U.S. need to invade Canada for? It invades and visits total destruction on countries ten thousand miles away from U.S. borders, countries that pose no conceivable threat, on the basis of lies.

Blinders and amnesia!

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14. Why would anyone think of Canada?

When a person makes a reference to what the US would do in a situation where it invades a bordering nation? The only other option was Mexico. We don't need RT to tell us which two countries border the US.

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5. I'm pretty sure Vlad the Shirtless could ride to the rescue ...

wherever injustice occurs!

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7. That's one of my favorite poems in your sig line.

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6. Thanks pampango.. Shhhh, not suppose to talk about things like this in Russia.

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8. The Putin apologists on DI cite Lyndon Larouche.

There is a lot more I could say, but I'll leave you to fill in the blanks.