Posted on 04/21/2022 4:05:12 PM PDT by Morgana
Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation against a student from Zambia for dancing in front of a war memorial.
The woman, identified by local media as Rebecca Ziba, 21, posted a clip of herself 'shaking a**' next to the Memorial of Glory in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk.
She is now suspected of committing a crime under Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation which 'provides for the responsibility for the rehabilitation of Nazism'.
While the original Instagram post seems to have been taken down, a clip on Twitter suggests that it was captioned: 'Shaking a** for the dead, (I'm) sure they are sleeping (well) tonight.'
Ms Ziba, who appeared to be twerking in the post, was detained and has profusely apologised to Russian authorities.
In a video shared by the Russian Investigative Committee for Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, she said: 'I want to apologise to everyone for the video that I posted on April 16.
'I posted...without knowledge of what it actually meant and knowing who it's going to hurt or upset.
'I posted a video of me dancing on a monument and I did not mean to be...the video that I posted, I didn't intend for it to be offensive.
Ms Ziba added that she 'didn't mean to offend anyone or to be disreseptful to 'those people that died'.
'And I because I did not know exactly what it meant and I never thought it would be this big,' she said.
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Different cultures, different customs.
Didn’t they do this exact scenario in season 2 of the Oroville?
The Russian authorities obviously over-reacted, and she should have known better than to film dancing videos in Russia during a war.
Good!
Nazi has become code for “We don’t like this” rather then having anything to do with National Socialism.
‘And I because I did not know exactly what it meant and I never thought it would be this big,’ she said.
‘I posted a video of me dancing on a monument and I did not mean to be...the video that I posted, I didn’t intend for it to be offensive.
Ms Ziba added that she ‘didn’t mean to offend anyone or to be disreseptful to ‘those people that died’.
Russian war memorial or not, this is completely disrespectful . A couple of years in the Gulag might change her tune.
What is she doing in Russia in the first place?
There go those Zambian nazis again . . .
I’m not a fan of Russia but too bad we don’t have laws like that here.
Well, this will certainly aid Russia’s efforts to improve its tourism industry in the future. /s
“Incoherence”
She didn’t have the brains to organize her thoughts or the sense that she should.
Africans belong in Africa.
Daily Mail dungpile strikes again.
If you can’t respect the host country, stay in your native shithole.
My cousin, a plastic surgeon, went to Zambia to teach that country’s only plastic surgeon about treating burn victims.
The Zambian doctor had his own airplane, and they flew one day to a national park where they had elephants and such.
On the way back, the engine starting spewing oil all over the windshield and they had to crash-land on a makeshift airfield on top of a hill.
Within about an hour, some natives showed up to see if they could help and ... they spoke ENGLISH!
Re the crash: My cousin told me the plane had recently undergone maintenance that required the propeller to be removed. SPECULATION: Zambian mechanics reused the old gasket instead of using a new one for the propeller, and it sprung a leak. I’d bet money the procedure called for a NEW gasket. The plane was destroyed but no one was hurt.
She thought it would be like the U.S. where that stuff is revered as culture on every mainstream outlet.
Zoomba Ziba from Zambia?
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