I love our Russian women in front of a camera. Take a photo of an ordinary western woman and chances are it is just a smile and click, point a camera at our Russian women and you get a full on pose befitting of any magazine or jornal, simply they are oustanding. I couldn't get by without you! But a little more on topic, it will be interesting to see what happens in this case. Discharging a firearm, this guy should be sitting in pre-prison now. If we don't come down hard on him, and make a custodial sentence stick, then it will be pathetic, because I really find it pretty inconceivable as to what set of circumstances could be deemed to justify this thuggish action. Was her foot really such a threat, that he needed to have a weapon modified, so as to take it out. Let's get real here, and getting real means protecting our citizens from thuggish abuse, especially from protected offialdom dynasties. Otherwise we will be shooting ourselves in the foot as well. Because if we can't support our citizens rights in the streets, we will have no citizens.

I hope she recovers well from the injury.

Everyone should be treated fairly and equally under the law. A just society cannot and will not ask for more or less than this. The footage RT shows Anna Shavenkova rammed her car into bystanders is brutal, but hopefully the Russian justice system’s second attempt to get justice for the victims will respect the victims’ losses and punish the guilty accordingly. Regarding RT’s reporter Natalia Arhiptseva got shot in the foot, Sergey Virolainen also deserve a fair treatment under the law. The restaurant’s responsibility is missing in the story, such as was the restaurant responsible for serving Sergey Virolainen too much alcohol, or he was drunk before coming to the restaurant. In any case, Sergey Virolainen and the restaurant (if it’s liable) should pay Natalia Arhiptseva’s medical fees and compensate for her lost income.

Canadian, I can't fault you for your principles of justice. However, I think you need recalibrate your criminal blame sensors a little, together with understanding that money doesn't always represent just satisfaction in society, and that you can't just try to find someone else to blame for your criminal activities We are not talking here about a little bit of boistrous horseplay or foul language, what we are talking about is shooting someone. And this wasn't some sort or water pistol in a playground, it was firing a projectile in a restaurant that put someone in hospital. Now yes the North american lawyers approach is to try to buy your way out of it, indeed this is the aproach the Russian elite go for as well, but it is unacceptable, regardless if the victim can be persuaded to accept it. Because that creates a two tier system of law, based on the ability to pay, wheras the criminal activity should instead be the only yardtick used to decide on sanction or escape from it, not money. Additionally you can't use the blame someone else approach of pining it on the restaurant, they didn't ask him to turn up with a gun, they didn't to my knowledge bottle the guy. So he was pretty well excercising his own free will. So what is exactly wrong with freedom? or are we saying that Russia is just allowing too much freedom here! The culture of blaming someone else, looking for the paid way out, and pampering the culprit is a little at odds with my principles. Indeed on the last point, like many others, we have seen the EHR (European court of criminal rights) continually reaching into national legislation, including our own to affect pre-prison detention such that the rich kids can continually get out, regardless of the crimes they are alleged to have commited So in a nutshell yes lets make it fair and employ justice for all. But part of that fairness should not be always to demean the suffering of the victim, to look for other scapegoats or to allow money to rule

Count Cash

 

I can assure that Canada has much better justice system than Russia. I can also assure if this crime was committed in Canada- at an upscale café or not—this guy would have been charged with a crime of violence and most of all violence against women. Russia has a long way to reach the level Canada’s justice system. When crimes such as this are committed .Russia needed to look itself in the eye and change some of the ways powerful people act as though they are above the law..