The cowardly beatings of members of the performance art/ punk rock group Pussy Riot in Sochi on Wednesday has provided more evidence of the repressive culture that is Putin's Russia today. Along with Putin's attempt to influence events in Ukraine to Russia's benefit, it forms a picture of a regime that isn't ready to join democratic nations by any stretch of the imagination.
(At least the intrepid jounamalists at NBC are having a jolly time.)
(cartoons: top, Jack Ohman, bottom Tom Toles, via Gocomics.com)
