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    Anti corruption protests in Russia, Navalny arrested

    http://abcnews.go.com/International/...orted-46381149

    Russia's opposition, often written off by critics as a small and irrelevant coterie of privileged urbanites, put on an impressive nationwide show of strength Sunday with scores of protest rallies spanning the vast country. Hundreds were arrested, including Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner who is President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic.

    It was the biggest show of defiance since the 2011-2012 wave of demonstrations that rattled the Kremlin and led to harsh new laws aimed at suppressing dissent. Almost all of Sunday's rallies were unsanctioned, but thousands braved the prospect of arrests to gather in cities from the Far East port of Vladivostok to the "window on the West" of St. Petersburg.

    An organization that monitors Russian political repression, OVD-Info, said it counted more than 800 people arrested in the Moscow demonstrations alone. That number could not be confirmed and state news agency Tass cited Moscow police as saying there were about 500 arrests.

    Navalny, who was arrested while walking from a nearby subway station to the demonstration at Moscow's iconic Pushkin Square, was the driving force of the demonstrations. He called for them after his Foundation for Fighting Corruption released a report contending that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has amassed a collection of mansions, yachts and vineyards.

    Navalny is a persistent thorn in the Kremlin's side. He has served several short jail terms after arrests in previous protests and has twice been convicted in a fraud case, but given a suspended sentence. He intends to run for president in 2018 — an election in which Putin is widely expected to run for another term — even though the conviction technically disqualifies him. Putin has dominated Russian political life, as president or prime minister, since 2000.

    No overall figures on arrests or protest attendance were available. Some Russian state news media gave relatively cursory reports on the demonstrations; the state news TV channel Rossiya-24 ignored them altogether in evening broadcasts.

    Police estimated the Moscow crowd at about 7,000, but it could have been larger. The one-hectare (2.5-acre) Pushkin Square was densely crowded as were sidewalks on the adjacent Tverskaya Street.
    Someone was going to make a thread eventually.

    So There are protests and arrests in Belarus and Russia. Navalny is one of the many opposition figures in Russia but his clout is much smaller than western media makes it out to be.

    Putin and his entire government are corrupt pieces of trash. Russians have a right to get rid of them or let them in power. As long as there is not a repeat of the 90s. Fuck the 90s.

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    Betting a lot of people will trip and fall in some bullets.

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    Unsurprising, and sad. But it's russia here. We all know Russia is filled with

    Best comrades! Russia is wonderful country. Russia is very great. Long live Putin!
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    Am I dreaming? Cybran flaming Russia and Putin?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cyberowl View Post
    Am I dreaming? Cybran flaming Russia and Putin?
    I think I have entered bizarro world again.

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    I would love to see Putin, Blair and Bush rot in jail for their crimes. Just this 8000 people protests isn't what is going to bring him down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cyberowl View Post
    Am I dreaming? Cybran flaming Russia and Putin?
    Putin reneged on his shill-posts-for-cash promise, now Cryban is out for blood.

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    Don't pick on Cybran. He may be a nationalist, but that doesn't mean he can't appreciate that corruption weakens his nation.
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    Off topic and ad hominem are against forum rules.

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    Sad news, but I dont think much will change. A lot of Russians seem not to care about corruption on their own goverment, I wish the best for those that do.

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    Breaking news, Navalny committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of his head with a shotgun, hanging himself and running himself over with a tank while in custody.
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    Continuously picking on the OP is offtopic. Drop it

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    It worth noticing the only reason for arrests was manifestations' taking place outside of permitted places and routes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cybran View Post
    Off topic and ad hominem are against forum rules.
    Imagine the ghost town this forum would be if those rules were regularly applied.

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    Oh, I don't think anyone has any illusions on this one. In Iran, multi-million demonstrations in Tehran a few years back didn't make a dent in the regime. Of course Navalny with a few thousand supporters won't make anything, but a few headlines.

    He is also a lousy person to put a stake on, as he essentially is a clone of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Then again, people hardly have any choice, and he is probably a lesser evil than Vlad Dracula!
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    It's actually a big event.


    According to Echo of Moscow radio station, 60,000 people took part in anti-Kremlin rallies in 82 Russian cities.

    In Moscow protesters were chanting: “Putin the thief, go away!” Thousands of people gathered on the Palace Square of Saint Petersburg in front of the Hermitage and shouted: “Down with the Tsar!”


    http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...&source=Reddit
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    700 idiots per city? Not that impressive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tackhisis View Post
    700 idiots per city? Not that impressive.
    Idiots for protesting against Putin?

    What a world you live in.
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