dillinger Posted October 21, 2018 Posted October 21, 2018 (edited) Quote Pro-Russian Internet trolls jailed for defamatory comments about Finnish journalist Russophiles irked by Jessika Aro's investigations accused her of being US intelligence operative and drug dealer For more than three years, a Finnish journalist who investigated Russia’s army of vicious internet trolls faced a barrage of false accusations online that she was a US intelligence operative, a drug dealer and an unhinged bimbo driven by Russophobia. This week, the journalist, Jessika Aro, got a measure of satisfaction when a court in Helsinki convicted two of her most dedicated slanderers of defamation and handed them unusually harsh sentences. Ilja Janitskin, a Finn of Russian descent who ran MV-Lehti, a vituperative website that rails against Russia’s critics, immigrants, Jews and the EU, was sentenced to 22 months in jail after being convicted on 16 criminal counts related to his website. His lawyer said he would appeal the judgment. Johan Backman, a self-declared “human rights defender” who spends much of his time in Russia and has acquired a reputation as a strident defender of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, received a one-year suspended jail sentence for aggravated defamation and stalking. Scorning the judgment as “another dirty trick by Nato,” he said that he, too, would appeal. A third defendant, a Finnish woman who worked on Janitskin’s incendiary website, was also given a suspended sentence. Together, they were ordered to pay damages totalling around $155,000 (£136,722), plus legal costs. The verdict, delivered on Thursday by the Helsinki District Court, was the first time a European country had taken action against pro-Russian disinformation spread through social media, websites and news outlets controlled by or linked to Russia. Rossiya 24, a Kremlin-controlled television channel, featured the Helsinki case in its main evening news show Friday, depicting the judgment as an attack on Finnish “dissidents” and the conviction of Janitskin as a move to silence a website “opposed to the demonization of Russia.” The Finnish authorities opened the case after Ms Aro, a journalist with Finland’s national broadcaster, YLE, filed a complaint with the police in Helsinki in 2016 over what she said was a campaign of online persecution orchestrated by Backman. Others also filed complaints, including a student activist who called for a boycott of companies that advertised on MV-Lehti, Janitskin’s website, and was then mocked online, with her face photoshopped onto pornographic images. The court ruled that the website had displayed a noxious propensity for sexist abuse and racist slurs. Backman denied playing any role in the most damaging attack on Aro — a false report in 2016 on MV-Lehti that she was a convicted drug dealer. But police investigators found that he had been directly involved in preparing the report. She had been fined while a student for possessing drugs but had never been convicted of dealing. Backman, who served until 2014 as the representative in Northern Europe for the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, a state-funded research group led by the former head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, denounced the trial as politically motivated farce orchestrated by Nato. Finland, which shares an 830-mile border with Russia, is not a member of Nato but, unnerved by Russian military actions in Ukraine and its sabre-rattling in the Baltic Sea, has in recent years expanded cooperation with the US-led military alliance and has debated whether to join. Dismissing the evidence against him and Janitskin as “fabricated,” Backman said on Friday the Finnish court “has become an instrument for Nato propagandists” seeking to silence criticism of the alliance. Backman, who insists his support for Russia and hostility towards Nato is motivated by personal conviction and not by financial or other inducements from Moscow, appears regularly in state-controlled Russian news outlets as a commentator on European affairs. He also acts as the representative in Finland of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the breakaway state set up with Russian support in eastern Ukraine. In its 176-page judgment, the Helsinki court said Janitskin and Backman had worked together to slander Ms Aro and had committed “an exceptionally aggravated set of crimes” because their primary motive was to undermine her work investigating “Russian information threats” by destroying her “professional credibility and reputation as a journalist specialising in Russian affairs.” Rejecting arguments made by Janitskin and Backman during the trial that they had merely exercised their right to freedom of speech, the court said their attacks on Ms Aro, often demonstrably false, were “systematic and continued for an exceptionally long period.” There is no evidence that MV-Lehti is controlled by Russia, and Janitskin, in a 2016 interview with The New York Times, described himself as more in tune with the views of president Donald Trump than those of Mr Putin. But the case did raise questions about the website’s funding. Police investigators found that the third convicted defendant, who wrote for the website under the pseudonym T2, had received tens of thousands of dollars in mysterious payments from Janitskin and large bitcoin payments from an unidentified sponsor she described as a “private philanthropist”. Ms Aro welcomed the convictions as a long overdue response to the “horrendous hate campaign against me” that began in 2015, when she started investigating the workings of the Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” in St Petersburg. Thirteen Russians linked to the agency, including Yevgeny V Prigozhin, a businessman known as “Putin’s cook” because of his catering contracts with the Kremlin, were indicted in February by special counsel Robert Mueller on charges of interfering in the 2016 presidential election. “I would really love to focus on my work uncovering and reporting about Russian information operations, without being forced to receive death threats and slander on a regular basis,” Ms Aro said. Her lawyer, Martina Kronström, described the court’s verdict as “very harsh for Finland,” which has one of Europe’s most lenient judicial systems. But she said the online harassment of the journalist, amplified by Russian trolls, was so relentless it deserved serious punishment. She added that it was unlikely to curb online defamation by Russia’s own Internet warriors, but said, “I hope that ordinary Finns might at least think a bit more about what they are writing on the internet.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-trolls-jailed-defamatory-comments-finnish-journalist-jessika-aro-a8593631.html Edited October 21, 2018 by dillinger
Eraserhead Posted November 9, 2018 Posted November 9, 2018 Nova nedelja i nova prilika da “sahista” zasere odnose sa jos jednom zemljom
Redoran Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 Pogledao na stranim portalima, piše da je pukiša jedno 20 godina bio ruski doušnik. Nije baš nešto što je Putler juče odlučio da uradi pa zabrljao, u pitanju je sistemska stvar i takoreći rutina. Nije nikakva tajna da su Rusija i zapad uredno nastavili da špijuniraju jedni druge posle hladnog rata i da su na obe strane povremeno padale čitave mreže špijuna. Bilo je nekih potpuno spektakularnih provala ali je do nedavno sve to bilo rešavano na diplomatskom nivou i razmenom uhapšenih. Mediji su to pratili ali se državna rukovodstva uglavnom nisu previše mešala. Pre par godina se iz nekog razloga prešlo sa diplomatskih kanala na najviši državni nivo i sada se na osnovu špijunskih afera kreiraju i određuju generalni odnosi između dve strane. Lavrov to zove "megafon diplomatijom" što ona u suštini jeste i teško da će doneti nešto dobro na duži rok.
Anduril Posted November 10, 2018 Posted November 10, 2018 Mala razlika ovde je sto je Austrija vojno neutralna zemlja van NATO-a koja se poslednjih godina trudila da poboljsa odnose EU sa Rusijom, pa zato ova prica ima malo drugaciji kontekst i tezinu od uobicajenog spijuniranja na relaciji zapad-Rusija.
mjone Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 20 hours ago, Anduril said: Mala razlika ovde je sto je Austrija vojno neutralna zemlja van NATO-a koja se poslednjih godina trudila da poboljsa odnose EU sa Rusijom, pa zato ova prica ima malo drugaciji kontekst i tezinu od uobicajenog spijuniranja na relaciji zapad-Rusija. Koja je razlika u odnosu na NSA prisluskivanja nemackih kancelara npr ... ah, da, Austrija i Rusija nisu u vojnom savezu !
Anduril Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, mjone said: Koja je razlika u odnosu na NSA prisluskivanja nemackih kancelara npr ... ah, da, Austrija i Rusija nisu u vojnom savezu ! Razlika je kontekst - zabole Austriju u ovom slucaju sta US radi sa Nemackom, ili za pppotrebe da se navijacki porede US i Rusija. Edited November 11, 2018 by Anduril
dillinger Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 40 minutes ago, Anduril said: Razlika je kontekst - zabole Austriju u ovom slucaju sta US radi sa Nemackom, ili za pppotrebe da se navijacki porede US i Rusija. Drago Nam je da zato Nemce ne zabole.
Eraserhead Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 On 10.11.2018. at 4:11, Redoran said: Pogledao na stranim portalima, piše da je pukiša jedno 20 godina bio ruski doušnik. Nije baš nešto što je Putler juče odlučio da uradi pa zabrljao, u pitanju je sistemska stvar i takoreći rutina. Nije nikakva tajna da su Rusija i zapad uredno nastavili da špijuniraju jedni druge posle hladnog rata i da su na obe strane povremeno padale čitave mreže špijuna. Bilo je nekih potpuno spektakularnih provala ali je do nedavno sve to bilo rešavano na diplomatskom nivou i razmenom uhapšenih. Mediji su to pratili ali se državna rukovodstva uglavnom nisu previše mešala. Pre par godina se iz nekog razloga prešlo sa diplomatskih kanala na najviši državni nivo i sada se na osnovu špijunskih afera kreiraju i određuju generalni odnosi između dve strane. Lavrov to zove "megafon diplomatijom" što ona u suštini jeste i teško da će doneti nešto dobro na duži rok. Ocigledno nesto ne stima u odnosu putinovog rezima prema medjunarodnim odnosima i to nema veze s tim da li ovo ide unazad 20 god ili ne. Ako i zanemarimo gubljenje Ukrajine u poslednje vreme imamo zatezanje odnosa sa CG, Grckom, Makedonijom i sada Austrijom uz manje zatezanje sa Francuskom i vece ali u drugom kontekstu sa UK. Niko im ne namesta. Amerika nikoga ne gura. Samo pogresno ponasanje iznova i iznova. Deluje vrlo amaterski. Posebno u ovom slucaju gde imas pretvaranje nekoga ko je otvoren prema tebi u neprijatelja. Rusija nije ni do kolena Amerima u igranju ovih globalnih igrica.
namenski Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 Пронећало Jedan od najvecih, a mozda i najveci plivajuci dok na svetu, ПД-50, izgradjen 1976. u Svedskoj, za vakta pokojnog CCCP, a u takodje pokojnom arendalskom brodogradilistu u Svedskoj, potonuo je 30. oktobra i to dok se na njemu, remonta radi, nalazio jedini ruski nosac aviona Адмирал Флота Советского Союза Кузнецов. Do nesrece je doslo kada se na dok srusio obalni kran i napravio na njemu ovecu rupu; izvesteno je da je tom prilikom poginuo jedan radnik. Dok je gradjen za potrebe opsluzivanja u ta vremena rastuce pomorske moci CCCP i predvidjen je da omoguci remont plovila deplasmana veceg od 25,000 tona. Smesten je u cuvenom predgradju Murmanska, Rosljakovu, i danas pripada pripadao je firmi koja se vodi kao 82-й судоремонтный завод, nedavno ukljucenoj u АО Объединённая судостроительная корпорация. Uspelo se da se Kuznjecov na vreme izvuce iz doka, doduse sa nesto - kako se tvrdi - neznatnih ostecenja koja nisu ugrozila glavne funkcije broda, otvorena je istraga, utvrdjeno je nepridrzavanje procedura i propisa...
dillinger Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, Eraserhead said: Ocigledno nesto ne stima u odnosu putinovog rezima prema medjunarodnim odnosima i to nema veze s tim da li ovo ide unazad 20 god ili ne. Ako i zanemarimo gubljenje Ukrajine u poslednje vreme imamo zatezanje odnosa sa CG, Grckom, Makedonijom i sada Austrijom uz manje zatezanje sa Francuskom i vece ali u drugom kontekstu sa UK. Niko im ne namesta. Amerika nikoga ne gura. Samo pogresno ponasanje iznova i iznova. Deluje vrlo amaterski. Posebno u ovom slucaju gde imas pretvaranje nekoga ko je otvoren prema tebi u neprijatelja. Rusija nije ni do kolena Amerima u igranju ovih globalnih igrica. Naravno da gura, u gotovo svakom od primera stoje Ameri iza ali šta očekuješ, da Zaev na javno kaže sve o svojim vezama sa Amerima i koliko su ih isti premrežili? I naravno da su jači puno. Edited November 11, 2018 by dillinger
Redoran Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 18 minutes ago, namenski said: Do nesrece je doslo kada se na dok srusio obalni kran i napravio na njemu ovecu rupu; izvesteno je da je tom prilikom poginuo jedan radnik. Ja sam pročitao da je zbog nekog kurcšlusa na kopnu dok izgubio napajanje strujom a onda je krenulo iz lošeg u gore tj. ispostavilo se da u njegovim sopstvenim agregatima za ne daj bože - nema dizela. Glu, glu, glu... Kran je navodno bio na doku i srušio se pravo na Kuznjecova i oštetio mu oplatu. Dosta radnika je završilo u ledenoj vodi i za dlaku izbeglo hipotermiju.
namenski Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 25 minutes ago, Redoran said: Ja sam pročitao da je zbog nekog kurcšlusa na kopnu dok izgubio napajanje strujom a onda je krenulo iz lošeg u gore tj. ispostavilo se da u njegovim sopstvenim agregatima za ne daj bože - nema dizela. Glu, glu, glu... Kran je navodno bio na doku i srušio se pravo na Kuznjecova i oštetio mu oplatu. Dosta radnika je završilo u ledenoj vodi i za dlaku izbeglo hipotermiju. Pravo da ti kazem, ne znam, tesko da za sada iko zna, ukljucujuci i same Ruse: prvi izvestaji govore da jeste doslo do prekida napajanja elektricnom energijom i da su zbog toga balastni tankovi naglo poplavljeni, sto bas i nije neko objasnjenje. Padajuci kran jeste ostetio sam brod. Sama cinjenica da su uspeli da izvuku brod napolje je po malo u kontradikciji sa ovim gore: za to ipak treba vremena, osim ako, slucajno, bela ladja nije bila pod paromtm i spremna za isplovljavanje, a kod tolike grdosije za tako nesto treba poprilicno vremena, cak i da je sve na svom mestu, sto u doku obicno nije slucaj, ali ko zna... Nemanje dizela u agregatima lici na Ruse , mada - sve je moguce: dok je prosao kroz nekoliko privatizacija, i na ovo malo fotografija se vidi da se od odrzavanja nisu pretrgli... A kao raritet, ostatak od stare, dobre CCCP prakse negovanja tajanstvenosti po svaku cenu, sam dok, inace grdosija, registrovan je i vodi se u - ruskom recnom (?!) registru, Российский Речной Регистр (Russian River Register, nekada Речной Регистр СССР), koji doduse jeste posle propasti CCCP uclanjen u medjunarodne asocijacije, ali je idealno ortopedsko pomagalo da se stvari drze mimo sveta, tako da cemo tesko ikada saznati... Tek bilo kako bilo, Kuznjecov, Tajfun, Kirov, Oskari, itd, itd..., za sada i do daljnjeg imace problema sa dokovanjem. Ovo su stare fotografije, neka 2015, ali se da nazreti stanje stvari... Inace, sama naprava je bila monstrum: duga preko 300 metara, istiskivala je pri najvecem opterecenju preko 200,000 tona...
namenski Posted November 13, 2018 Posted November 13, 2018 Ruski ljudi foruma, na okup!!! Dok ne dodje Anduril, naravno i objasnitm... Tesko da bih uspeo da prebrojim postove i stranice posvecene svakoj vrsti investigatorstva glede pokusaja da se u sred pitomog zelenog ostrva utepa 1 poprilicno opskurni spijunski prebeg... Pa se nesto mislim kako bi tek prstalo od pravednog gneva, tvitova i navoda iz raznorazne stampe i ostalih televizija da je u nekom ruskom diplomatskom predstavnostvu istranziran i francuski obradjen neki novinar... Ovako nista, sto bi nas cuveni narod rekao - pojeo vuk magarca...
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