Posted on 03/05/2012 9:46:13 PM PST by Olog-hai
Russian riot police detained more than 500 protesters including opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday at rallies challenging the legitimacy of Vladimir Putin's victory in the presidential election.
Putin, who secured almost 64 percent of the votes on Sunday, portrayed his return to the presidency as a triumph over opponents who were trying to usurp power, though international monitors said the vote was clearly skewed in his favor.
But opposition leaders said they drew 20,000 people into Moscow's Pushkin Square, the scene of dissident protests during Soviet times, to call for new elections and an opening up of the political system crafted by Putin during his 12-year rule.
"They robbed us," Navalny, a 35-year-old anti-corruption blogger, told the crowd before his detention. "We are the power," he said to chants of "Russia without Putin" and "Putin is a thief." …
Opposition leaders said 500-1,000 people were detained, but police put the number at 250 and said 14,000 people had attended the rally.
The U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, said on Twitter that the arrests were troubling and that freedom of assembly and speech were universal values. …
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Unless it involves tea-partiers, of course.
Coming later this year to your neighborhood.
same will happen here
just waiting for 0failure and the IRS to start rounding up the TEA party members once they get all the information
that’s when it’ll start
We have more than fair warning. Imagine - a world, where the good guys are outnumbered. . .and evil prevails.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
My thoughts exactly!
“Coming later this year to your neighborhood.”
Maybe your neighborhood but not mine.
You don’t think anti-Obama protestors can be arrested in your neighborhood?
I can’t imagine Putin showing up in my neighborhood and arresting me.
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