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Russia to ban Simpsons and South Park
The Kremlin was accused of a return to Soviet-style indoctrination after Russia moved to ban American cartoons like The Simpsons and replace them with programmes teaching children to be patriotic.
The move came as Russia's broadcast watchdog began hearings on whether or not to revoke the license of a cartoon network as punishment for transmitting episodes of South Park, The Simpsons and Family Guy.
The American cartoons, all of which have adult themes, have been fallen foul of recently tightened extremism laws that critics say have been used to muzzle opponents of the Kremlin.
The State Duma, Russia's parliament, said that the frequency given to the 2x2 cartoon channel would instead be given to new government network that "reflects the state position in the area of youth policy".
In place of foreign cartoons, Russia's children would instead watch programmes teaching them patriotism, respect for family values and the importance of sport, the Duma's youth committee said.
The move comes as MPs are also considering the compulsory introduction of patriotism classes in all Russian schools. Under one proposal lessons in Russian literature could be scaled back to find room on the curriculum.
The proposal to create a new state channel, criticised in some quarters as an attempt to seize lucrative frequency rights from a private broadcaster, was likened by some activists to Soviet era moralizing that fettered the minds of the young.
"The wish to create a youth patriotic channel is one of many attempts by the authorities at indoctrinating and brainwashing the young," said Lev Ponomarev, a veteran human rights activist and member of Garry Kasparov's outlawed opposition party.
"The authorities are accelerating their own death by all this."
The Kremlin has also come under criticism for creating nationalist youth movements like Nashi, whose members have sworn allegiance to Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, and have been used to disrupt opposition protests.
The anticipated closure of 2x2, which will learn its fate within days, has also raised questions over the manner in which Russia's authorities are interpreting legislation ostensibly introduced to fight xenophobia.
The channel is facing a criminal investigation for broadcasting an episode of South Park that allegedly promoted religious hatred.
The episode, titled "Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics" featured a taking faeces that emerges from a lavatory every Christmas Eve to give presents to children whose diet is suitably fibre-rich. Mr Hankey led a variety show of Christmas songs whose lyrics had been twisted to include profanities and digs at organised religion.
Prosecutors also alleged, without elaborating, that The Simpsons and Family Guy violate the rights of children.
Implementation of the extremism law has courted controversy on several occasions in the past year. In August, a blogger who criticized the FSB, the intelligence agency that replaced the KGB, was charged with extremism.
An online newspaper was closed in April after an anonymous reader posted a comment at the bottom of a story calling for violence against government officials.
Others have faced investigation simply for criticising Mr Putin, among them Andrei Piontkovsky, a prominent political analyst, and a group of mothers whose children were killed during the Beslan school siege of 2004.
The late British historian High Trevor-Roper also fell foul of the law after one of his books was banned for carrying quotes from Hitler that disparaged Jews and Russians. A hobbyist who built replica Second World War tanks was also investigated earlier this year.
Can Onodera/Serb tell if it was real size tanks that hobbyist was building ? 
In place of foreign cartoons, Russia's children would instead watch programmes teaching them patriotism, respect for family values and the importance of sport, the Duma's youth committee said.
Russia to ban Simpsons and South Park
The Kremlin was accused of a return to Soviet-style indoctrination after Russia moved to ban American cartoons like The Simpsons and replace them with programmes teaching children to be patriotic.
The move came as Russia's broadcast watchdog began hearings on whether or not to revoke the license of a cartoon network as punishment for transmitting episodes of South Park, The Simpsons and Family Guy.
The American cartoons, all of which have adult themes, have been fallen foul of recently tightened extremism laws that critics say have been used to muzzle opponents of the Kremlin.
The State Duma, Russia's parliament, said that the frequency given to the 2x2 cartoon channel would instead be given to new government network that "reflects the state position in the area of youth policy".
In place of foreign cartoons, Russia's children would instead watch programmes teaching them patriotism, respect for family values and the importance of sport, the Duma's youth committee said.
The move comes as MPs are also considering the compulsory introduction of patriotism classes in all Russian schools. Under one proposal lessons in Russian literature could be scaled back to find room on the curriculum.
The proposal to create a new state channel, criticised in some quarters as an attempt to seize lucrative frequency rights from a private broadcaster, was likened by some activists to Soviet era moralizing that fettered the minds of the young.
"The wish to create a youth patriotic channel is one of many attempts by the authorities at indoctrinating and brainwashing the young," said Lev Ponomarev, a veteran human rights activist and member of Garry Kasparov's outlawed opposition party.
"The authorities are accelerating their own death by all this."
The Kremlin has also come under criticism for creating nationalist youth movements like Nashi, whose members have sworn allegiance to Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, and have been used to disrupt opposition protests.
The anticipated closure of 2x2, which will learn its fate within days, has also raised questions over the manner in which Russia's authorities are interpreting legislation ostensibly introduced to fight xenophobia.
The channel is facing a criminal investigation for broadcasting an episode of South Park that allegedly promoted religious hatred.
The episode, titled "Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics" featured a taking faeces that emerges from a lavatory every Christmas Eve to give presents to children whose diet is suitably fibre-rich. Mr Hankey led a variety show of Christmas songs whose lyrics had been twisted to include profanities and digs at organised religion.
Prosecutors also alleged, without elaborating, that The Simpsons and Family Guy violate the rights of children.
Implementation of the extremism law has courted controversy on several occasions in the past year. In August, a blogger who criticized the FSB, the intelligence agency that replaced the KGB, was charged with extremism.
An online newspaper was closed in April after an anonymous reader posted a comment at the bottom of a story calling for violence against government officials.
Others have faced investigation simply for criticising Mr Putin, among them Andrei Piontkovsky, a prominent political analyst, and a group of mothers whose children were killed during the Beslan school siege of 2004.
The late British historian High Trevor-Roper also fell foul of the law after one of his books was banned for carrying quotes from Hitler that disparaged Jews and Russians. A hobbyist who built replica Second World War tanks was also investigated earlier this year.
). He also posted stuff in his livejournal about attacking liberal demonstartions with a mortar. He's behind the bars now for illegally possessing this shotgun.
Well, that could be a reason for investigation (though, Sloww would probably consider it crazy 
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