Verzilov was first hospitalized in Moscow on Tuesday and had remained in intensive care, Pussy Riot members said this week. Maria Alekhina, a member of the group, told The Associated Press that he regained consciousness Friday.
Verzilov, his partner Veronika Nikulshina and two other Pussy Riot members served 15-day jail sentences for running onto field in Moscow where soccer’s World Cup final was being played in July. Their protest of what they described as the excessive powers of Russia’s police briefly disrupted the match.
Who knew that Putin would turn out to be a long-lost member of the Borgia family?
ETA: We should start referring to him as Lucrezia Putin.
Putin has taken KGB tactics out of the shadows and into broad daylight, because there’s no plausible deniability here. The motive is clear as are the means and the methods. This can’t be good for a secretive spy agency to be exposed like this…repeatedly. Regardless, Putin is a thug, and perhaps a madman, that the world community needs to stop.
Is he doing this in response to the Manafort deal, or for internal reasons?
My thought is that he’s doing this as a message to people outside russia, because people inside russia he can simply have shot.
Fingers crossed.
I think Putin has a scrap book on ways to deal with “meddling kids.” There is poison and internment. Then there is the insidious slow creep of interference in public norms, values, and institutions to be used against political bodies as opposed to individual’s bodies.
They killed Mikhail Lesin, once a Putin adviser, with a baseball bat in a Washington hotel room the night before he was going to speak to the DOJ. The message is simple–if you oppose or represent a threat to the regime you’re not safe anywhere in the world.