Police break up Russian anti-govt rally

AP Digital via The Sydney Morning Herald ^ | March 25, 2007 | None Attributed

[gpapa]

Riot police wielding truncheons broke up an opposition rally in a central Russian city on Saturday, beating and detaining dozens of activists.

It was the second major anti-government protest by liberal and leftist forces this year to be broken up by police as the country prepares for December parliamentary elections and next year's presidential vote.

President Vladimir Putin, who is constitutionally barred from running for a third consecutive term, has given strong hints he would pick a favoured successor. Opposition groups have accused the Kremlin of further consolidating control over the country's political life ahead of elections to make sure its opponents stand no chance of winning.

[GSlob]

In other news: the second apple has fallen on the head of Sir Isaac Newton. 'This confirms the law of gravity', said the prominent scientist. It is the Way of apples to fall. And it is the Way of such demonstrations to be beaten there, sort of knee-jerk reflex- equally predictable. When they are NOT beaten - now, that would be a news.

[Hoplite]

Undercover Police Baby: Another day, another riot, another collar.

[Joe Boucher]

Nice democracy you gangsters, what the hell do ya think you are, DemocRATs?

[jer33 3]

I recognize this photo from a different protest. Why did this man take a baby to a protest or did they just happen to be in the vicinity when the protest was taking place?

[Hoplite]

Any answer would be speculation on my part, though I think it probably has something to do with a misplaced belief in the following article of the Russian Constitution:

Section 1, Chapter 2, Article 31.

Citizens of the Russian Federation shall have the right to gather peacefully, without weapons, and to hold meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets.

[eleni121]

Commies and assorted other loonies like the ones at this do called rally love taking their to make sure that photographers get those pictures.

Think our own loonies here in the US. But far more here than in Russia.

[eleni121]

You are so full of it...clueless wonder. I suppose you support the following list of losers many funded by Soros including the Bolsheviks--wow!:

Lyudmila Alekseeva – Moscow Helsinki Group Viktor Anpilov – Workers’ Russia
Mikhail Delyagin – Institute for Globalization Issues
Yuri Dzhibladze - Center for Development of Democracy and Human Rights
Garry Kasparov – United Civil Front
Mikhail Kasyanov – People’s Democratic Union
Eduard Limonov – National Bolshevik Party

[GSlob]

As for limonov - could not care less about him and his. brownish red, or reddish brown, sh*tty blood, or bloody sh*t - I do not see any use , or difference. As for Kasparov - he is a highly respected human being, which is more than I could say about any putinoid, on or outside of FR. And BTW, as for Soros' activities in Central and Eastern Europe - I fund them, in general, highly positive - precisely because they are anti-putinoid.

[GSlob]

fund = found

[Zack Nguyen]

The baby looks dangerously democratic to me. I wonde rif he was beaten?

Seriously, Russia is more free now than it was under Communism, but really it is still disfunctional.

[Hoplite]

Dysfunctional for the average Russian citizen, sure - but running like a well oiled machine for those in power.

I seriously doubt anything bad happened to the kid or the adult with him/her, whereas if it was in Belarus, then I'd be worried.