The russian's cultural gestapo : "Yoga and Feng Shui are dangerous"

[fireflysky46]

Russian authorities have long exciting topic patriotic education of youth once again in the spotlight. Ways to protect young Russians from the "corrupting influence of the West" in order to preserve "the traditional spiritual and moral values​​" and strengthening the friendship of the peoples living in the Russian Federation included in the agenda of the last eve, July 3 meeting of the Presidential Council on International Relations, the press writes.

The event is held personally Russian President Vladimir Putin. Following the meeting, the President instructed the end of the year to introduce a monitoring system of international relations and to accelerate the development of youth policy priorities, according to "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".

However, most media attention attracted ...by a statement from one of the participants in the meeting. Among those whose speech had to listen to the president as "Kommersant", particularly distinguished Minister of Culture Vladimir Medina, suddenly turned against seemingly quite a decent and considered beneficial to health practices such as yoga and feng shui...




Judging by the performance of Medina, their trouble is that they are "non-traditional" for Russia. Apparently, as recently become incredibly popular among Russians, Japanese sushi, rebelled against previously chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko.
Read :

http://www.newsru.com/russia/04jul2014/battlelezginka.html

When it's not Sergey "Kremlin Bob" Lavrov, it"s Vladimir "Extra Chromosome" Medina, they both know how to make us laugh.

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[longship]

1. Gees!

Yoga is basically exercise and relaxation. Nothing wrong with that. Probably good for you.

Feng-Shui is basically rubbish magical thinking but that isn't harmful except maybe the waste of money. Maybe one could argue it has an esthetic benefit, but Penn and Teller tested that on Bullshit and there didn't seem to be any coherence to it. Dangerous? I doubt it. Unless your Feng-shui person has you put your dining table on a pitched roof or something.

Certainly Russia can figure out something better to oppose that is really harmful. Not these though.

[djean111]

2. Did we care this much about every little thing in Russia before Snowden went there? n/t

[snooper2]

5. People are getting more interested as Pootie turns the state into a drunk version of Saudi Arabia

[stevenleser]

6. Did Russia pass an anti-gay law before that? Did they engage in a military invasion of Crimea before

that?

Snowden is a symptom, not a cause. The Putin government has had some sort of dramatic shift in the last 12-18 months. Prior to that time, I thought that Russia and the US had a great chance of establishing a good friendship and together helping to make the world more peaceful. It is clear that this was never on the agenda for Putin and that plans to that effect go back over 5-7 years.

Putin clearly had a carefully timed agenda whose roots can be seen in his modernization of Russian military technology which he started in 2008. http://www.worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/inside-putin-s-ambitious-push-to-modernize-the-russian-military/c1s5839/#.U7lnP_ldWSo Once that modernization started to show real results, he became much more hostile towards the United States and the west as well as more aggressive towards nearby countries particularly prior Soviet satellite states.

Snowden was a convenient pawn that Putin used to irritate the US.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Perhaps Russia is preparing its people

to side more with China against India?


Thanks for the thread, fireflysky.

[stevenleser]

4. Excellent OP with tons of great sources. The current Russian government is Fascist, Period.

What's next, the "Putin Youth"?

Concentration camps for Russians who are "too western"?