A court in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has jailed a woman for wearing rainbow earrings, the human rights group Egida reported late Wednesday, marking the second case of its kind after Russia banned the so-called “LGBT movement” as an “extremist” organization in November. According to Egida, law enforcement agents tasked with combating “extremism” detained the woman after a group of “aggressive people” approached her and her friend at a local cafe and filmed them on camera.
Well, you could argue a revolution will “stem” from the Ukraine-Russia conflict because it weakens the extremely counter-revolutionary US, and it is indeed impossible or extremely difficult for there to be any sort of mutual aid and cooperation between the two country’s working class movements, because of sanctions. Finally, it is a very reactionary war in general, literally headed by Nazis on one side and one of the people who helped collapse the USSR on the other, so this is seeming like a textbook case of proper use of revolutionary defeatism to me.