Posted on 01/28/2018 4:49:57 AM PST by nuconvert
Russian police wrestled opposition leader Alexei Navalny into a patrol wagon on Sunday, moments after he appeared at a rally to urge voters to boycott what he said would be a rigged presidential election in March.
Video footage posted on social media showed Navalny appear on Moscow’s main thoroughfare, a few hundred meters (yards) from the Kremlin, to join several hundred supporters taking part in the protest, which the authorities had said was illegal. He had only walked a short distance when he was surrounded by helmet-clad police officers. They wrestled him to the ground on the pavement, and then dragged him feet first into the patrol wagon, the video footage showed.
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Earlier on Sunday, police forced their way into Navalny’s campaign headquarters using power tools, citing reports of a bomb threat, an online feed run by Navalny’s supporters showed.
Navalny has been barred from running in the March 18 election which polls show incumbent president Vladimir Putin is on track to easily win.
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And after Putin wins, he’ll announce that it was a fair election and everyone loves him.
pong
The Putin way to win an election
Yup. Written a month ago.
And now bizarrely Zhirinovsky has appeared at the protest and is talking with the #Navalny supporters.
https://twitter.com/Reevellp/status/957606548737585152
lol. what’s with the big yellow duck in the window?
you never know where or when he’s going to show up
The yellow duck
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-28/the-yellow-rubber-duck-is-a-potent-protest-symbol
Had hillary won, all subsequent elections would be like Russian ones.
lol. I guess if the protesters start wearing duck masks, it would also hide their identity from cameras
Yes, Zhirinosky is in the game to get some votes that otherwise would go to those opposing Putin.
https://www.rferl.org/a/zhirinovsky-registers-russian-presidential-election-fifth/28946299.html
Mr Zhirinovsky is often viewed as something of a clown but has stood in four previous presidential elections. In 2008 he came third with 9% of the vote.
Mr Zhirinovsky’s campaign slogan for 2012 is “Vote Zhirinovsky, or things will get worse”.
Despite his anti-Kremlin rhetoric and frequent outbursts, Zhirinovsky is seen as a Kremlin loyalist and a political survivor.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16750990
“To me, Zhirinovsky looks like Putin’s tool.”
Well, he’s been allowed to run & hasn’t been arrested, so he’s either a tool or a joke to Putin.
If he were really against Putin, his outrageous rhetoric would have gotten him in real trouble.
“In 2008 he came third with 9% of the vote.”
Hey, he’s promised free vodka for men and better underwear for women. He’s got my vote.
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