Pussy Riot Rock Band

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Pussy Riot Rock Band

***** Location: Russia
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Pussy Riot
is a Russian feminist punk-rock musical collective that stages politically provocative impromptu performances in Moscow, in unusual locations such as on top of a trolleybus and on a scaffold in the Moscow Metro, on Russian political life.



In March 2012, following an unauthorized anti-Putin performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, three women from the band were arrested and charged with "hooliganism".
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dark Moscow sky
one by one twitter shout-outs
to @FreePussyRiot



two female bodies...
Free Pussy Riot
scrawled in blood
September 1, 2012


Chen-ou Liu


Listen to Pussy Riot's Punk Prayer
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(Chorus)
St. Maria, Virgin, Drive away Putin
Drive away! Drive away Putin!
(end chorus)

Black robe, golden epaulettes
All parishioners are crawling and bowing
The ghost of freedom is in heaven
Gay pride sent to Siberia in chains

The head of the KGB is their chief saint
Leads protesters to prison under escort
In order not to offend the Holy
Women have to give birth and to love

Holy shit, shit, Lord's shit!
Holy shit, shit, Lord's shit!

(Chorus)
St. Maria, Virgin, become a feminist
Become a feminist, Become a feminist
(end chorus)

Church praises the rotten dictators
The cross-bearer procession of black limousines
In school you are going to meet with a teacher-preacher
Go to class - bring him money!

Patriarch Gundyaev believes in Putin
Bitch, you better believed in God
Belt of the Virgin is no substitute for mass-meetings
In protest of our Ever-Virgin Mary!

(Chorus)
St. Maria, Virgin, Drive away Putin
Drive away! Drive away Putin!
(end chorus)


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58th Birthday –
posting “Free Pussy Riot”
on all the friends’ walls

Anatoly Kudryavitsky
August 18, 2012


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Putin and the Pussy Riot---
he must be
lonely

Fred Masarani



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Russia
(Russian: Россия, tr. Rossiya; , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation
(Russian: Российская Федерация, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; ), is a country in northern Eurasia.
It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects.
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Russian on-line HAIKU magazine "Ulitka"

The on-line magazine ULITKA (the SNAIL),
published both in Russian and in English, is dedicated to the entire variety of haikai genres, predominantly to the haiku poetry. The main objective of the magazine is to familiarize its readers with the selected works of the Russian-speaking poets, as well as with the works of the most interesting authors writing in other languages.
We also plan to publish reviews, essays, critical and research articles on subjects related to haikai.



Интернет-журнал УЛИТКА, выходящий на русском и английском языках, ориентирован на современное многообразие жанров искусства хайкай, и прежде всего на поэзию хайку. Основная цель издания - знакомить читателя с творчеством русскоязычных поэтов, а также с произведениями наиболее интересных авторов, пишущих на других языках.
Редакция планирует также публиковать обзорные, критические, теоретические статьи и эссе на темы хайкай.

...................... Editors of ULITKA

Dmitry Kudrya Владислав Васильев
Alexander Kudryashov
Natalia Levy
Natalia Sedenkova
Vladislav Vassiliev
Elina Vitomskaya

January 2006
http://www.ulitka.haiku-do.com/

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Хайкумена Рунета
http://haiku-do.com/

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Russian Haiku
by Eugene Wasserstrom
Russian haiku resists definitions.
Like primordial soup it defies geography and structure. Bound only by its language and the Internet it finds ways to mix Russian literary tradition with Japanese style and Western logic. Not unlike many who are taken by this poetry, the Russian haiku community has yet to establish a boundary between haiku and senryu, between real and imagined, between self and the world. Everything, good or bad, is possible in this virtual thought environment that sometimes reminds me of Solaris, the planet-mind from the Stanislaw Lem science fiction novel.

From early translations of Japanese classics and occasional publications in secondary literary magazines Russian haiku sprang on the Internet, appearing first on Alexei Andreev's http://www.haiku.ru. His article "What is haiku?" still serves as a reference point for many Russian haijin.
source : simply haiku 2005

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KANKODORI - Haikai and Sumi-e by Origa
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Buddhist Temple 'Datsan Gunzechoinei'
in St.Petersburg, Russia



'The Buddha's Temple on the Neva Banks'.
Exhibition
Andrei Marhotin
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cold snap in Europe -
watching Born in USSR
on a Russian channel


origami airplane--
post-Soviet Russia
light years away


with ex-Soviet friends -
for a second
we re-create the Soviet Union


talking after ages--
my ex-Soviet girl talks
of rich-poor divide


with my ex-Soviet girl--
her increasing use of the words
rich & poor




Lenin pin-
all that is left of the Soviet past
as far as I go





watching The Sum Of All Fears
Russia even now
not more than a Hollywood flick



Good Friday--
Stalin notebooks cause a furor
in Russia

Manu Kant
Joys of Japan, 2012



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***** Fish from Russia

***** Honey Spas 　

***** . Kitezh (Russian: Ки́теж) .

***** Scilla, Siberian Squill (Scilla Sibirica)

***** Shrovetide - Maslenitsa

***** White Night Polar Circle

***** Women's Day International Women's Day,
Mimosa Day (Russia)

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Scilla

***** Location: Russia
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Plant

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There are various members in the Scilla family.


Scilla (squill)
is a genus of bulb-forming perennial herbs in the Hyacinthaceae. The 90-odd species are found in woodlands, subalpine meadows, and seashores across the Old World. Their flowers are usually blue, but white, pink, and purple types are known; most flower in early spring, but a few are autumn-flowering.

Several African species previously classified in Scilla have been removed to the genus Ledebouria. The best known of these is the common houseplant still sometimes known as Scilla violacea but now properly Ledebouria socialis.

Species include:
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Scilla Sibirica (Siberian Squill)
kigo for mid-spring

Siberian squill (Scilla siberica), also known as the wood squill or spring beauty, is a small perennial plant native to Siberia.

This plant grows to 15 cm (6 inches) tall and produces small, violet-blue flowers with blue pollen early in the spring.

It spends the winter as a small bulb, perhaps as big as the end of a little finger. It puts up short, somewhat grassy foliage very early in the spring, produces one or more tiny blue flowers, goes to seed, and disappears by summer.

This plant can be planted into a lawn, and, if it naturalizes, can give a very pretty early spring display. It can tolerate light foot traffic while dormant and transplants easily. They are best grown in cool, moist locations with well-drained soil of average fertility. They are very cold-tolerant. It does not do well in hot and/or dry conditions, though it does well in sun or light shade
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More external LINKS
http://www.hort.wisc.edu/mastergardener/Features/bulbs/scilla%20siberica/scilla%20sibirica.htm

http://www.fixedglance.com/picture.php?image_id=377&cat=9&expand=9

http://www.wildchicken.com/nature/garden/nature_200_106.htm


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Germany

Szilla, Scilla bifolia, Blaustern




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Chionodoxa (Glory-of-the-snow)

I can still
bend low enough:
snow glories

George Hawkins . March 2009

WKD snow glories, Chionodoxa



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© Photo by Viola

murky day --
Siberian Squill gathers
the sky's blue

пасмурный день --
все краски неба собрал
цветок пролески

Siberian Squill --
stamens poking into
the cold air


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Live Journal


апрельская синева -- ..... April azure --
тянется к небесам ......... a thin shoot stretches out
тоненький росток .... ..... to heaven

©　viola

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The Pasque-flower
is called a "dream grass" or a "sleepy grass" in Russia.

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Hyacinth

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Hyacinth

***** Location: Europe, Japan, other areas
***** Season: Early Spring
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The origin of this plant is in Greece, Syria and Lebanon. It has been introduced to Japan during the end of the Tokugawa period.
There are many varieties of this plant, also many colors. It survives the winter in its bulb and flowers with a strong smell.

(Hyacinthus orientalis)

hyacinth, hiyashinsu ヒヤシンス
..... fuushinshi 風信子
night fragrant orchid, yakooran　夜香蘭
"brocade lily" nishiki yuri　錦百合

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Hyacinth (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Hyacinth (Greek H άκινθος - Hyiakinthos) was a divine hero, the son of Clio and Pierus, King of Macedonia. His cult at Amyclae dates from the Mycenean era.

He is the tutelary deity of one of the principal Spartan festivals, the Hyacinthia, held every summer. The festival lasted three days, one day of mourning for the death of the divine hero and the last two celebrating his rebirth.

In the myth, Hyacinth was a beautiful youth beloved by the god Apollo. According to myth, the two competed at discus. They took turns throwing it, until Apollo, to impress his beloved, threw it with all his might. Hyacinth ran to catch it, to impress Apollo in turn, and was struck by the discus as it fell to the ground and he died.

There is another myth which adds that it was the wind god Zephyrus who was actually responsible for the death of Hyacinth. Zephyrus blew the discus off course, out of jealousy, so as to injure and kill Hyacinth. When he died, Apollo made a flower, the hyacinth, spring out from his spilled blood. However, the flower of the mythological Greek youth Hyacinth slain by Apollo's discus has been identified with a number of plants other than the true hyacinth, such as the iris.

Although the mythical Hyacinth was male, Hyacinth is currently in use as a female name, usually in reference to the flower and not the mythological figure.

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Saint Hyacinth

He is the patron saint of St. Hyacinth's Basilica, in Chicago, Illinois.


Saint Hyacinth, Święty Jacek, Jacek Odrowąż
(b. 1185 in Kamień Śląski, d. August 15, 1257 in Kraków, Poland of natural causes) was educated in Paris and Bologna. A Doctor of Sacred Studies and a priest, he worked to reform convents in his native Poland. While in Rome, he witnessed a miracle performed by Saint Dominic, and became a Dominican. Brought the Dominican Order to Poland, then evangelized throughout Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Scotland, Russia, Turkey, and Greece.

During an attack on a monastery, Hyacinth managed to save a crucifix and statue of Mary, though the statue weighed far more than he could normally have lifted; the saint is usually shown holding these two items.

He was canonized on 17 April 1594 by Pope Clement VIII, and his memorial day is 17 August. In 1686 pope Innocent XI named him a patron of Lithuania.

In Spanish, he is known as San Jacinto.

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Hayacinths (sunbul) are associated with SAINT ''Hyacinth'', or Sunbul Efendi (Sümbül Efendi, Sünbül Efendi), and during the Holy Month of Fasting Stambouli (Istanbul) people visit Sunbul Efendi's tomb.
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Sünbül Efendi (died 1529 in Istanbul) was the founder of the Sunbuliyye Sufi order (also spelt Sunbuli). The Sunbuliyye were a derivative of the Khalwati (also spelt Halveti and Halvetiye ) order.

The tomb of Sümbül Sinan Efendi is next to the Koca Mustafa Paşa Mosque in Istanbul. The site of his tomb was once his Tekke and is now a Mosque. The Tekke itself was once a convent that was abandoned after the conquest of Constantinople and handed over to the Khalwatis by the Sultan to use as a Tekke. Almost all of the Sheikhs who sat at the post of grand Sheikh of this order are buried at the Tekke, including another famous Sheikh of this order, Merkez Efendi (d.1552) in Yenikapı.

The tomb is frequently visited by Muslims who consider him to be a saint.
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hyacinth -
your freshnes helps
to start this day

Gabi Greve, May 2006
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2006/05/may-1-hyacinth.html

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Regal Hyacinthe
Juxtaposed with lilies
Gossips with the breeze

Georgiagirl27

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royalty, purple
like sapphire dreams, only sweet:
hyacinth in dreams

Copyright © 2005 Jacquii Cooke
http://poetjc.home.comcast.net/index_c-new2006_11hyacinth.html

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The cold ground warming--
a hyacinth sprouts upward.
Color through the snow!

This haiku expresses Nature's ability to surprise us with it's momentary beauty. Through a blanket of white, a spring flower is able to come up and amaze us with color and life that may only last a week! The Zen Garden also shows us that through concentrating on the simple things in nature we are able to see a whole world of new things that we have never seen before and would not have seen otherwise.

Haiku Discussion in a Zen Garden, 2000
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/courseportfolios/2310/discussions/s20/haikus20.html

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Die Hyazinthe –
Wasser und Zwiebel im Glas –
es blüht der Winter

the hyacinth -
water and bulb in a glass -
winter is flowering
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

(c) 2003 by Walther Stonet

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overcast skies...
but the hyacinth
a brilliant blue

hortensia anderson

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Honey Spas

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Honey Spas, Apple Spas, Linen Spas

***** Location: Russia
***** Season: Early Autumn
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In Russia Honey Spas is celebrated on August 14. This is the day on which the honey is blessed. Honey Spas marks the beginning of honey harvest. According to common belief, it is the day when swallows leave for the winter. This is considered to be a sign that summer is leaving.

Vacant swallow nests resemble honey combs. Swallows are the birds that according to the myth tried to spare Christ from prolonged suffering on the cross and cried that he is already dead. Spas means saviour. There are three holidays called Spas. Each of them is dedicated to one sacred part of the cross. August 14 is also the day on which, according to the legend, Russia was christened.

Natalia L. Rudychev
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In August, there are three holidays related to Jesus called the First Savior, the Second Savior, and the Third Savior (collectively, "The Three Saviours"). The Savior, in Russian, is called Spas.

The First Savior (the Honey Spas), is the feast of the Presentation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross, celebrated on 14 August. In Russian tradition, the First Savior is associated with the custom of eating freshly-gathered honey after having it blessed in church, and with the following events in nature: Bees stops bringing honey to their hives, bee-keepers cut open the hives, swallows and martins fly away, roses stop blooming, and cold dew covers the grass. On this day, church processions take place to bless the waters of streams and rivers and horses and cattle are usually bathed.

On 19 August, the Second Savior (the Apple Spas), the Transfiguration of Our Lord, is celebrated. The Second Saviour is associated with the custom of eating apples and other fruits that have been blessed in church, and with the following events in nature: Ripe apples are picked and blessed, the nights are becoming cold, and cranes begin to fly south. It is customary not to eat any fruits or vegetables except cucumbers before the Second Savior, and even a beggar will eat an apple on this day.

The Third Savior (the Linen Spas) is the commemoration of the Image of Our Lord Not-Made-by-Hands. It is celebrated on 29 August and is called the Linen Spas because of the linen shroud on which the image of Christ was imprinted, and also because it was the village custom to associate this holiday with the sale of linens and canvasses. Walnuts ripen by the Third Savior, and pies are baked from fresh flour.

The stories behind the Saviors and their correlation with Christianity are the following:

The First Savior got its name to commemorate the military victories of Greek Emperor Manuil and the Duke of Vladimir, Andrej the God-lover (Bogolubskij), on 14 August 1164 (or 1 August in the Julian calendar). Emperor Manuil won a battle against the Saracens and freed the Byzantine Empire from Muslim rule, while the Duke of Vladimir defeated the Bulgars of the Volga, the tribe that lived to the south of Russia. Both of the battles took place on the same day and, according to what the church says, these battles were accompanied by a miracle: The icons of the Virgin Mary and the Savior Christ glittered, encouraging the warriors and forecasting the victory of the Byzantine and Russian troops.

The Second Savior got its name from the Transfiguration of Our Lord, which was the event when Jesus showed his divine might to three of his Apostles – Peter, James, and John – on a high mountain. By this glorious manifestation, Jesus strengthened the faith of his three friends and prepared them for the terrible struggle of which they were to be witnesses in Gethsemani, by giving them a foretaste of the glory and heavenly delights that people attain through suffering.

The Third Savior received its name from the Holy Shroud or the Image of Our Lord Not-Made-By-Hands (Spas Nerukotvornij), which is allegedly located in the Cathedral of St. John in Turin, Italy. The story goes like this: Jesus once dried his face with a towel and the image of his face remained. He gave the towel to a messenger to take to the ruler of Edessa, located in what is now southeast Turkey, who had asked for Jesus’s help.
This Ubrus (the Slavic word for a towel) helped improve the ruler’s health, and he praised the Shroud and declared its location a Holy Site of Edessa. The above-mentioned Saracens, however, took the Shroud with them after sacking Edessa. In 944, the Byzantine emperors bought it back for 12,000 silver coins and 200 slaves. The Holy Shroud was taken back to Constantinopole (which today is Istanbul) and solemnly installed it into the cathedral there on 16 August 944 – which, by the Gregorian calendar now used in most of the world, is 29 August.

In Russia, there is a saying:
"the First Savior – one stands in water;
the Second Savior – one eats apples;
the Third Savior – one sells linen."

As you can see from this saying, the Christian and the pagan aspects of the Saviors are interrelated, as is Russian life. The interrelations from combining both Eastern and Western traditions has produced a unique third system of beliefs – another reason, in addition to those seen above, that the number 3 is a popular number in Russia.

© Konstantin Vassiliev
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honey spas -
vacant swallow nests
soak up the sun

Natalia L. Rudychev

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honey spas --
she reads a Russia haiku
while toenails dry

Deborah P Kolodji

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honey spa
our savior savors
honey comb

"chibi" (pen-name for Dennis M. Holmes) 　

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apple spas
grannie's shawl
smells of pie

Apple Spas is a holiday celebrated on August 19. This is the day when apples are blessed. After the Apple Spas evenings get cooler and autumn begins. It is customary to enjoy apple pies, stewed apples and apple jam during this celebration.

Natalia L. Rudychev, Haikushoot BLOG

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third spas
ripens fruits
of the poet's tree

Third Spas is also called Linen Spas and Nut Spas.
It is celebrated on August 29. Nuts (for the most part hazelnuts) are blessed and eaten. After this day most of the harvest worries are over. Wheat is harvested and linen is taken care off. People have much more free time that can be devoted to thinking and creative activities.
In folklore hazel is often called the poet's tree.

Natalia L. Rudychev, Haikushoot BLOG


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