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bucheon bum
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 Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:56 am Post subject: Russia! |
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| So there was a recent election in Russia that was most likely rigged. Putin's party "won" the most seats. No big news. This time, however, people have protested the results. 250 people in Moscow were arrested yesterday. Today Gorbachev called for a new vote. I thought the Russian people had become complacent but it seems as though they have woken up. Some of them at least. intersting stuff. |
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bucheon bum
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:12 am Post subject: |
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Another article
Russia is a little odd:
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| In front of a stage covered with images of President Dmitri Medvedev, who led the party's electoral ticket, roughly a thousand pro-Kremlin activists chanted and beat drums to a bizarre soundtrack -- the Darth Vader theme from the movie Star Wars -- which was blasted through the speakers toward the Kremlin. A few of the activists came dressed as Storm Troopers. |
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bucheon bum
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:54 am Post subject: |
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Big Moscow Protest Against Rigged Election
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| MOSCOW (AP) � Tens of thousands of Muscovites thronged to a square across the river from the Kremlin on Saturday to protest alleged electoral fraud and urge an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's rule, demands repeated at other rallies across this vast country in the largest public show of discontent in post-Soviet Russia. |
2011 has been quite the year of protesting across the world. |
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Butterfly
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
Another article
Russia is a little odd:
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| In front of a stage covered with images of President Dmitri Medvedev, who led the party's electoral ticket, roughly a thousand pro-Kremlin activists chanted and beat drums to a bizarre soundtrack -- the Darth Vader theme from the movie Star Wars -- which was blasted through the speakers toward the Kremlin. A few of the activists came dressed as Storm Troopers. |
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Not sure what thats all about, thuggery probably but it is great to see Putin getting his enormous ego pricked - i hope this builds. The kick boxing match was priceless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOTuR0xCdf0 |
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Butterfly
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Butterfly wrote: |
| bucheon bum wrote: |
Another article
Russia is a little odd:
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| In front of a stage covered with images of President Dmitri Medvedev, who led the party's electoral ticket, roughly a thousand pro-Kremlin activists chanted and beat drums to a bizarre soundtrack -- the Darth Vader theme from the movie Star Wars -- which was blasted through the speakers toward the Kremlin. A few of the activists came dressed as Storm Troopers. |
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Not sure what thats all about, thuggery probably but it is great to see Putin getting his enormous ego pricked - i hope this builds. The kick boxing match was priceless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOTuR0xCdf0 |
I found Al Jazeera's analysis very on-point also:
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| With corruption still rampant and more Russians feeling that the gap between them and the government was getting wider, the opposition's slogan that United Russia was the "Party of Thieves and Swindlers" seemed more and more apt. Addressing these issues by having Putin return bare-chested on a horse was akin to telling the public that they were too simple-minded to choose their leaders. For many, particularly Russia's educated classes, Putin 2.0 evoked more images of stagnation than renewal. |
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/12/201112812836748820.html |
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bucheon bum
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:40 am Post subject: |
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Nets billionaire owner to run for president
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| MOSCOW � Amid a crescendo of complaints from Russians fed up with the country�s tightly controlled political system, two prominent figures � a billionaire industrialist and the recently ousted finance minister � sought to fill a void in the opposition leadership on Monday. |
Good luck to them both. |
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Butterfly
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
Nets billionaire owner to run for president
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| MOSCOW � Amid a crescendo of complaints from Russians fed up with the country�s tightly controlled political system, two prominent figures � a billionaire industrialist and the recently ousted finance minister � sought to fill a void in the opposition leadership on Monday. |
Good luck to them both. |
Haha, yes, another Putin puppet, the Kremlin is becoming his own little Punch and Judy show. |
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bucheon bum
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:06 am Post subject: |
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Not Russia, but a former state of the USSR, Kazakhstan, has wide spread protests
Certainly the year for prostesting...
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| The authorities have put the death toll at 14 after three days of violent clashes between the police and striking workers. Witnesses and human rights workers have said the number of dead could be many times higher. Scores more have reportedly been injured. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 6:39 am Post subject: |
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There was a mass rally over the weekend protesting Putin's 'election'.
It made me kind of nostalgic for the late fall/early winter of '00 back home. If only Al had taken off his clothes and ridden through the streets of Coventry... |
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