Hundreds Arrested in Russia
March 26th, 2017Via: Time:
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.
Sorry Soros, not gonna work this time. Putin has an 80% approval rating. The green faces aren’t going to depose him anymore than those talentless hacks Pussy Riot did.
The US Is Planning a ‘Color Revolution’ in Russia — But Putin Is Ready
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/us-planning-color-revolution-russia-putin-ready/ri13090
President Vladimir Putin again addressed the dangers of color revolutions at Wednesday’s session of the Interior Ministry’s committee. “The extremists’ actions become more complicated. We are facing attempts to use the so called ‘color technologies’ in organizing illegal street protests to open propaganda of hatred and strife on social networks,” he said.
In November last year, Putin named color revolutions as a main tool used by forces that seek to reshape the world.
“In the modern world extremism is used as a geopolitical tool for redistribution of spheres of interest. We can see the tragic consequences of the wave of the so-called color revolutions, the shock experienced by people in the countries that went through the irresponsible experiments of hidden, or sometimes brute and direct interference with their lives,” the Russian leader said.
Fair enough, commenters above, but…is there evidence of corruption on the part of the PM?
You may’ve noticed it’s a not uncommon problem among politicians of all persuasions, and people everywhere are sick of it.
Dennis, your comment is very fair enough and I would definitely not disagree.
However, it’s a different context. Russia is involved in a war right now for survival. The change in government would need to wait until the war is over. Otherwise, the government would be taken over by US-NATO.
If I were a Russian citizen, I’d stand by current government at moment.
Would you prefer the current government that’s at least protecting you and your sovereignty or be taken over by a foreign government and foreign entities?
Very difficult situation. That’s my opinion.
This just out today, I think it gives good context:
Russia is the house that Vladimir Putin built – and he’ll never abandon it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/27/russia-house-vladimir-putin-built-never-abandon?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter