Posted on 11/17/2008 9:06:23 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Police Get Orders to Crush Crisis Unrest
10 November 2008
ST. PETERSBURG — President Dmitry Medvedev ordered police on Friday to stamp out any social unrest or crime arising from the global financial crisis.
"We have a stable state … We do not need a return to the 1990s when everything was boiling and seething," Medvedev told a meeting of senior officials.
"The law enforcement agencies should keep track of what is happening," he said. "And if someone tries to exploit the consequences of the financial crisis … they should intervene, bring criminal charges. Otherwise, there won't be order."
The longest economic boom in a generation has helped the Kremlin maintain political stability, but some analysts say the financial crisis could give rise to a wave of social unrest.
The benchmark RTS Index has fallen about 70 percent since May, making it one of the worst performers among emerging economies.
High oil prices, which fueled Russia's economic boom, have fallen from a peak of over $140 in July to just over $60 now.
The impact on ordinary people so far has been limited, partly because share ownership is not widespread and few people have private pensions. But firms in some sectors have started laying off staff.
Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev told Medvedev at the meeting that higher unemployment could lead to a rise in crime.
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Alcoholics registered with police?
Ping!
Alcoholics registered with police?
Maybe he meant AS police!...........
That’s just in central Moscow.
From my dead shaky hands........
Government controlled universal health care.
The crackdown continues..... What is in store for America under an Obama regime?
.....now that his close personal billionaire friends have escaped to the Med with their money!
And after the liquor stores will come products.
Alcoholism and abortion are the two worst problems in Russia. The average male dies at age 55, probably from a surfeit of vodka to the liver, and few Russian babies are coming along to replace them.
Meantime, if they send a lot of ethnic Russians back to the Gulags for stirring up trouble, they will only worsen the demographic crisis. The Chinese and the Muslims to the south will move into the vacuum.
He’s refering to their conscript military.
Can this be the beginning of the end of the NEP men?
History does repeat itself...
Police State -- lite...
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