Dedication

To Amnesty International for their fight against violent oppression, systematic dehumanization and spiritual destruction of political prisoners everywhere.

Research

Relevant Reading

• About.com
  Ramon Johnson, About.com Guide
  Gypsy, Gay And Trapped At Home
  gaylife.about.com/od/lovelessons/qt/gypsy.htm
• Antifa-Net
  Anti-Gypsy Persecution in Russia
  Mara Vladimirova
  7/29/2005
  www.romea.cz/english/index.php?id=servis/monitoring/m_en_2005_0046
• Anthropology of East Europe Review
  Vol. 13, No. 2 Autumn, 1995
  Alaina Lemon
  “WHAT ARE THEY WRITING ABOUT US BLACKS?” ROMA AND “RACE” IN RUSSIA.
• Associated Press
  Russian Customs Expose Massive Arms Smuggling Ring
  May 28, 2009
  www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522618,00.html
• BBC
  Staff Writer
  4 March 2011 Last updated at 12:57 ET S
  Russian jail officials jailed for ordering prison rapes
  www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12652532
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  Smuggling Update
  pp 52-56
  Rensselaer Lee
  May 1997
• Gay Russia
  There is no homosexuality in Chechnya claims Chechen website
  3/7/2006
  www.gayrussia.eu/en/russia/2026/
• In Moscow’s Shadows
  Russian Prison Reform: a B+ with promise but some concerns
  Dr Mark Galeotti
  Jul 25, 2011
  inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/russian-prison-reform-a-b-with-promise-but-some-concerns/
• Intelnews
  ‘Lord of War’ weapons smuggler enjoys Russian protection
  AUGUST 24, 2010
  intelnews.org/2010/08/24/01-547/
• Intergenerational Gay Dating
  Out for Sugar Daddies?
  www.lacregionalhdr2009.org/22-intergenerational-transmission.html
• KinoKultura
  Issue 24
  Aleksei Uchitel’: The Captive (Plennyi, 2008)
  Joe Andrew
  2009
  www.kinokultura.com/2009/24r-plenny.shtml
• Korennaya (Kursk Root) Hermitage of the Birth of the Holy Theotokos
  Orthodox Priests
  Korennaya Hermitage
  www.kurskroot.com/orthodox_priests.html
• Law and Human Behavior
  Vol 30(5), Oct 2006
  pp. 561-570.
  Adults’ judgments of children’s coached reports.
  Talwar, Victoria; Lee, Kang; Bala, Nicholas; Lindsay, R. C. L.
  Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/s10979-006-9038-8
• Manual del baratero
  by Anonymous
  1849 Madrid
• M&C
  Medvedev aims to reform “hellish” Russian prison system
  Ulf Mauder
  Jan 6, 2010, 2:08 GMT
  news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/features/article_1523490.php/Medvedev-aims-to-reform-hellish-Russian-prison-system-Feature
• Myths, Hypotheses and Facts Concerning the Origin of Peoples Roma and Gypsies
  Carmen
  www.imninalu.net/Gypsies.htm
• Roma (Gypsies) Russia
  Jonathan Fox
  3/27/95
  www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/mar/rusroma.htm
• National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 2
  The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations
  www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm
• The St Petersburg Times
  Officers Go On Trial For Raping Prisoners
  Sergey Chernov, Staff Writer
  Published: March 9, 2010 (Issue # 1554)
  www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=30947
• The Gypsy Chronicles Blog
  Alison Mackie
  Regulated Sexualities
  thegypsychroniclesblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/regulated-sexualities.html
• Time Magazine
  New Job for Ex-Soviet Pilots: Arms Trafficking
  Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009
  Simon Shuster
  www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948398,00.html
• U.S. Library of Congress
  The Russian Orthodox Church
  countrystudies.us/russia/38.htm
• Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia Vol. 1 and 3
  By Danzig Baldaev and Sergey Vasiliev
• University of Michigan
  Special Issue: Culture and Society in the Former Soviet Union.
  DePaul University
  1993
  condor.depaul.edu/rrotenbe/aeer/aeer13_2/Lemon.html
• Vory v zakone (Thieves-in-Law)
  Breaking news on Russian criminal elite by Prime Crime
  primecrimeru.blogspot.com/
• Wikia
  Prison Rape
  psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Prison_rape#Russia
• Wikipedia
  Criminal Tattoo
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_tattoo#Russia_and_former_Soviet_republics
  Gulag
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
  LGBT rights in Chechnya
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Chechnya
  Orekhovskaya gang
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orekhovskaya_gang
  Russian Orthodox Church
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church#Persecution_under_Khrushchev_and_Brezhnev

Relevant Videos

• I Am Not Alone 
  (1956)
• National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 – 12/04/1981). ARC Identifier 651533 / Local Identifier 263.2022.
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYLccpkiThI
• Video of Russian prison tortures casts more shadow on security forces
  Russia Today on Feb 9, 2010
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-BqksjUNg0
• The Mark of Cain.
  Producer: Alix Lambert; Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal
  Dec 19, 2010
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JDJdaMs-Y
• Russian Prison Brutality
  Voice of America
  Apr 4, 2008
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ipVo10mf0

Political Opinion/Editorial Pieces by the Author of Dissident Priest

• Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party Facts and Fiction
• Weathering the Storm of a Liberated Mind
• How the Media and Ideological Groups Manipulate Your Beliefs
• Sorry Dude, You Never Let the Cult: You Only Joined a New One
• Guns, Government and Food
• Morality and Legislation
• The Underlying Assumption Is That Government Didn’t Create These Problems
• The Sheep-Herding Wolf Pack
• A Letter to the Younger Generation
• Small Government Means Small Government