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	Thank you for your tireless contributions to Russian topics. Psychiatrick (talk) 19:51, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Judgment in Moscow needs Index of names and Chronology of key events in the addenda to the book otherwise the book will be perceived as a fiction, you know. Psychiatrick (talk) 22:28, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The book has an elaborate Index and contains a total of 700 notes, primarily linking documents cited or mentioned in the text to the online Bukovsky Archives. The Chronology of events is in the works. If you noticed, I included a link to one of these documents (Andropov's June 1968 memorandum to the Politburo about the Chronicle) in the notes to the entry on A Chronicle of Current Events in Wikipedia.

John Crowfoot (talk) 23:40, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

John, Putin kills people by the tens of thousands in Ukraine, reacts to military power only and does not respect the United Nations decisions, international law and human rights, so if Putin and his cronies crush protests in Moscow again, the West should promptly crush property, palaces, houses, hotels of Putin’s cronies in Europe by NATO tanks in response to Putin’s agression. This is the best option. Please watch Mikhail Leontyev at Vladimir Posner's program, 13 February 2012 on YouTube and listen to Mikhail Leontyev's typical chekist rhetoric about idiots, trators, enemies, psychiatric illnesses among Russian opposition. Such Andropov-esque rhetoric was usually followed by political trials and political repression in the Soviet Union and means that chekists will admit no falsifications in elections and criminal cases of Russian dissidents and make no concessions to Russian opposition. Thus, chekists want war in Russia like in Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia. Russian chekists always made war, not concessions. Psychiatrick (talk) 12:35, 15 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My Dear Psychiatrick! I've only just read your comment.

Я не знаю, что ли, как и о чём говорит М. Леонтьев?! I had my fill of that "gentleman's" unpleasant and disingenuous chatter when I lived in Moscow in the 1990s. No need, I can assure you, for me to take such a refresher course in dishonesty and misrepresentation. John Crowfoot (talk) 02:02, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The West should adequately react to Russian political trials: the confinement of a Russian dissident in a Russian prison, labor camp or psychiatric hospital should be responded and followed by the confinement a Putin’s crony in a Western prison, labor camp or psychiatric hospital. The absence of Western reaction to Russian political trials will encourage Putin to confine thousands of Russian dissidents. Psychiatrick (talk) 15:09, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I wholly agree. Since 2010 I have been a trustee and occasional contributor of a unique website entitled Rights in Russia. Each week it brings together, in English translation, a range of reports on what is happening to individuals and to NGO's and civil society in Russia.

The site still does not have the profile it deserves, but there is at least one place on the internet where arrests and trials, the renewed use of pyschiatric abuse to attack the opposition, and the constant pressure against NGOs including those that emerged in the late years of "perestroika" is systematically covered AND followed up. There jounalists, activists and researchers can get a clear idea of the frightful and concerted attempt to wind Russia back to pre-1985 conditions. John Crowfoot (talk) 18:18, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

During the Cold War up to 1989, nations of Western countries could only see KGB agents and spies of Soviet communists there, not their money, property and other assets. Now the Western nations can see these assets in the West and know names and addresses of their Russian owners to influence on them and halt political repression of Russian dissidents and wars on the borders of Russia. Why is the West idle and nonresistant? Psychiatrick (talk) 19:11, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if the West is idle and does not put up any resistance. There are some visible signs of disapproval and punishment or restriction for certain individuals. The targeted sanctions imposed after the annexation of Crimea reveal a good knowledge of who owns what and where. The latest news, of course, being that the funds syphoned off from Hermitage Capital, where the unfortunate Sergei Magnitsky worked, have now been located. In the accounts of a certain musician close to the Russian president.

Then there is the intelligence from a variety of sources that every country gathers but prefers not to reveal publicly, because that would identify the sources too closely.

Even though the sanctions were targeted at regime figures in Russia and not at the general public, the latter were craftily persuaded that they were being made to suffer by the West after Putin's regime established counter-measures and limits on Western imports. John Crowfoot

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In 2000, I visited Solzhenitsyn's house in Troitse-Lykovo near Moscow, talked to his wife, gave her my poem about using psychiatry agaist dissidents and asked her to publish it. She replyed they had no time and no opportunity to do so. At the same time Solzhenitsyn disscussed with Putin how to unite Ukraine, Belarus and Russia under Putin's dictatorship and paved the way to endless war. Those who listen to dictators are used by them as a means for war. Psychiatrick (talk) 23:41, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That's interesting. I know that several former allies of Solzhenitsyn from Soviet days were bemused by his attitudes on his return and, in particular, his tolerance of Putin, someone who should have been totally alien to his way of thinking. John Crowfoot (talk) 17:17, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In exchange for Solzhenitsyn's loyalty, Putin allowed and recommended schoolchildren in Russian secondary schools to read and study Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago to be used as a handbook for the persecution of dissidents because Putin behaves like a typical lieutenant colonel of the KGB and always adopts the worst thing of all his choices for Russian people, ie punishments, imprisonments, show trials and political repression. When turning back to look at Soviet history, we understand that Georgy Zhukov knew about Gulag, saw innocent people in Gulag but betrayed his people when returned from WWII and was afraid of crushing mass murderer tyrant Stalin by Russian tanks. All Russian marshals and generals were cowardly and served evil. Psychiatrick (talk) 22:05, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Could you go to Elizabeth II and ask her to influence on Putin’s cronies who live in the West? Let her block their bank accounts, credit cards and make them leave their houses in the West if they do not stop their wars on Russia’s borders. Psychiatrick (talk) 03:33, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, the lady and I are not acquainted. In any case, it is the government of the day, not the monarch, who has certain powers. In the 19th century, as Sergei Kapitza liked to recall, the Russian government demanded that its British equivalent deprive Herzen of his property and capital in this country. Her Majesty's Government said this was a matter beyond its control.

You can't bend the rules just to attack those you don't like or of whom you disapprove - in that case no rules would survive, neither would the independence of the judiciary and other advantanges of our form of existence. It is in Russia that a discreet phone call can decide the outcome of a trial, not here.

With best wishes John Crowfoot (talk) 11:51, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt during WWII and Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth II during the Cold War discussed the red lines of the spheres of influence and bent the rules. If the Western leaders had been as irresponsible, dishonest and negligent as Stalin, Soviet red flags would have waved over their cadavers in Western capitals. Putin and his cronies are as cruel, perfidious and irresponsible as Stalin, so the current Western leaders should influence on them. Psychiatrick (talk) 16:10, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Russian tyrants in the Kremlin are, and always were, unable to retain their power without unleashing permanent wars in neighboring countries on Russia’s borders. Therefore, western leaders should help Ukrainian soldiers and Russian antiwar activists such as Eugene Novozhilov punished by Russian psychiatrists for his antiwar position (learn more in his blog). Now western leaders are silent and inert as to any person punished by coercive medication in a Russian psychiatric hospital but their silence and inertia can lead to the Third World War unleashed by the Kremlin. Psychiatrick (talk) 20:55, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Putin's cronies like socialism very much and can be used for its building in the West. If they refuse to build socialism in the West, let western leaders construct huge psychiatric Gulag and use neuroleptics to make Putin's cronies build socialism. Psychiatrick (talk) 18:18, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

John, please take this poem written by me, in Russian, to your archive. Because of its topic, this poem is at danger of being destroyed in Russia. Psychiatrick (talk) 08:21, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

John, please look through The New Chronicle of Current Events for the best Russian guys who are resisting to Putin's neostalinist dictatorial regime. Stanislav Kalinichenko is recommended to be taken to Britain from Russia in exchange for Igor Shuvalov, a Putin's crony. Psychiatrick (talk) 21:04, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please note this edit. This sort of punctuation error seems to appear frequently in articles you've edited. An en-dash rather than a hyphen is used in ranges of years, pages, etc., and for parenthetical offsets. 2601:445:4001:4514:19AF:3293:E7E2:83BB (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Let me look at this. I would use a hyphen and an en-dash in different ways so I'm not quite clear what you mean. This may also be a clash between US-style use of em-dash (without spaces on either side) which doesn't look right to me -- in Britain! I'll check your edit, consult New Hart's Rules for editors and then get back to you. John Crowfoot (talk) 06:05, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I surrender. An em dash is used as described above by British publishers; however, OUP (New Hart's Rules)follow the US convention in usage. John Crowfoot (talk) 04:32, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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That's helpful - I shall revise accordingly! John Crowfoot (talk) 18:37, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The good article review for Vladimir Bukovsky has finally started. I'm working on the issues that have been raised, status on the Bukovsky article talk page and at Talk:Vladimir_Bukovsky/GA1 – Nkrita (talk) 18:27, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent and timely news. Say if there's any way that I can help (I'll try to leave the article alone for the next few weeks ...) Just spotted and corrected BUKOVKSY (!) in this section title.

John Crowfoot (talk) 01:56, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The "Maverik, East and West" section states that "After the publication of Judgment in Moscow in French (1995) and then in Russian (1996), [Bukovsky] was denied entry to Russia from October 1996 until 2007, in the run-up to the 2008 Presidential elections." Do you know how correct that is? I am trying to find sources for the section and am having trouble finding information on this. – Nkrita (talk) 12:31, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, John Crowfoot. Vladimir Bukovsky, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot (talk!) 15:43, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There has been some development concerning the "hooks" for the nomination, it would be great if you could double-check my adjustments. – Nkrita (talk) 14:22, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think ALT-5 looks best. Vladimir Prison was worse (stricter) than the camps, but obviously better than a psychiatric prison-hospital (with definite release date). Note: Bukovsky was in the Vladimir Prison (capital P) when he was moved to Moscow in late 1976 for exchange with Corvalan. He himself had NO idea what was going on. John Crowfoot (talk) 17:42, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'd suggest one simple change to ALT-5 then it's fine:

"Did you know that for campaigning against indefinite psychiatric imprisonment for opponents of the regime, Vladimir Bukovsky (pictured) was HIMSELF confined for years in Soviet psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps, and prisons?"

It stresses the link between what he opposed and he himself suffered. John Crowfoot (talk) 17:51, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Quite a while back you commented on my draft for a Human rights movement in the Soviet Union article. I have expanded it using your input on the origins (Mayakovsky Square, glasnost rally etc) and moved it into the published article space. The structure might still be a bit confusing to the uninitiated, and I am working on the readability (it feels quite wordy for an overview article). If you find the time, it would be great if you could take a look and see if there are glaring omissions, redundancies, confusions from your point of view. – Nkrita (talk) 19:14, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks complete and coherent. There are minor points to edit for clarity and accuracy, and there are references to be found for almost every statement in the "Chronicle". I'll look at those next week, if you like. Overall it's an impressive and thorough piece of work - well done.

Did you see my suggestion about cutting a couple of paragraphs on the Bukovsky entry? They seem redundant and repetitive in an already long and detailed article.

John Crowfoot (talk) 12:49, 2 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, I will separate the CCE refs as is our wont. :-)

Cutting paragraphs from Bukovsky entry: Yes, I saw that – I agree the paragraphs detailing Bukovsky's early protests and detailed prison times are not really necessary there and can be cut. The lead section should include the most significant/notable events though, which I suppose in this case is the release of the psychiatry documents and the aftermath for Bukovsky and internationally. – Nkrita (talk) 11:23, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The article is shaping up well BUT the section on the "Trial of Four" needs a fundamental re-write. The Four were arrested early in 1967, and Bukovsky et al protested against their arrest on 22 January 1967, but Ginzburg, Galanskov, Dobrovolsky and Lashkova were not themselves put on trial until January 1968 (for details see CCE 1, 30 April 1968). The long periods of detention were used to put pressure on those arrested in the hopes that they would collaborate in various ways, incriminating themselves and others.John Crowfoot (talk) 16:59, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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		I award you this Copy Editor's Barnstar for your careful editing. Just an overdue appreciation for consistently transforming vague statements and unstructured information into lucid and exact prose. – Nkrita (talk) 20:23, 9 June 2016 (UTC)|}[reply] Thank you very much. It's a rewarding activity if someone has already done some good spadework! John Crowfoot (talk) 17:01, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]