Russia's Election Lets Loose Public Rage

Kojirou · Dec 8, 2011

Joshfast said: ↑

Good grief. Are we headed back to the Stalin "I'm the Russian leader so I better kill all Russians" tactics?
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What do you mean by "headed back?"

MoonDogg · Dec 8, 2011

Kojirou said: ↑

What do you mean by "headed back?"
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Mathloom · Dec 25, 2011

Putin, who gave no public response to the protest Saturday, initially derided the demonstrators as paid agents of the West. He also said sarcastically that he thought the white ribbons they wore as an emblem were condoms. Putin has since come to take their protests more seriously, and in an effort to stem the anger he has offered a set of reforms to allow more political competition in future elections.Kremlin-controlled television covered Saturday's rally, but gave no air time to Putin's harshest critics.

Estimates of the number of demonstrators ranged from the police figure of 30,000 to 120,000 offered by the organizers. Demonstrators packed much of a broad avenue, which has room for nearly 100,000 people, about 2.5 kilometers (some 1.5 miles) from the Kremlin, as the temperature dipped well below freezing.

A stage at the end of the avenue featured banners reading "Russia will be free" and "This election Is a farce." Heavy police cordons encircled the participants, who stood within metal barriers, and a police helicopter hovered overhead.

Alexei Navalny, a corruption-fighting lawyer and popular blogger, electrified the crowd when he took the stage. He soon had the protesters chanting "We are the power!"

Navalny spent 15 days in jail for leading a protest on Dec. 5 that unexpectedly drew more than 5,000 people and set off the chain of demonstrations.

Putin's United Russia party lost 25 percent of its seats in the election, but hung onto a majority in parliament through what independent observers said was widespread fraud.

United Russia, seen as representing a corrupt bureaucracy, has become known as the party of crooks and thieves, a phrase coined by Navalny.

"We have enough people here to take the Kremlin," Navalny shouted to the crowd. "But we are peaceful people and we won't do that yet. But if these crooks and thieves keep cheating us, we will take what is ours."
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http://www.haaretz.com/news/interna...own-amid-mass-protests-across-russia-1.403389

Game time Putin.

WWPD?

AroundTheWorld · Dec 25, 2011

Hai Mathloom.

I'm in Dubai...

Not sure if you can see the above image, because...in Dubai...motifake.com seems to be seen as a threat .

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