Russian Police Vow To Crush Planned Opposition Rallies

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty ^ | April 13th, 2007

[M. Espinola]

Russian police today said they would crack down harshly on attempts to hold unauthorized opposition rallies planned for April 14 in Moscow and April 15 in St. Petersburg, RFE/RL's Russian Service reported.

Metal police barricades have been erected on the central Moscow square where the March of Dissent is planned.

Special police forces, the OMON, are being deployed to the capital.

Yulia Malysheva, one of the march's organizers, told RFE/RL's Russian Service that large numbers of OMON officers have already been deployed to Moscow from other regions. She expressed concern, saying that "regional OMON as a rule do not bear responsibility for their behavior in another city. The behavior of these OMON can be more radical than that of our [OMON] in Moscow."

March organizers vow to defy the ban and say they expect some 7,000 people to take part in the Moscow protest.

Three previous attempts to hold the march in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Nizhny Novgorod were quashed by police.

(with material from the news agencies)

[M. Espinola]

[Uncle Miltie]

“Crush”

Such nice fellows.

Everyone happy doing business with Russia this morning?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Say hello to the new boss;
Same as the old boss...

[M. Espinola]

Putin ‘peoples paradise’ is such a wonderful place if one is employed in the Kremlin.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Hmmmmm, sounds like a great idea...........

[neodad]

The Russian version of McCain-Fiengold.

[M. Espinola]

"Say hello to the new boss; Same as the old boss..."

[M. Espinola]

She’s taking notes.

[pnh102]

Of course, the same domestic anti-USA leftists who claim that the eeeeeeeeevil (more evil than Putin) Bush is constantly trampling on their free speech rights will say nothing about this stuff.

[M. Espinola]

Notice the name of the Russian division, Putin's hero 'Dzerzhinsky'.

A soldier of Russia's elite Dzerzhinsky division stands with a portrait of Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the background during training for a Victory Day military parade outside Moscow, April 10th, 2007. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin (RUSSIA)

[M. Espinola]

American leftwing sellouts believe Putin is the best thing since sliced bread. After all Putin's Kremlin is arming all our worst enemies and all of Israel's worst enemies.

Russia: Putin's Third Term To Feature In Duma Campaign

[chopperman]

What they really should do is crack down on planned obsolescence.

[pnh102]

American leftwing sellouts believe Putin is the best thing since sliced bread

True... supporting and agreeing with our enemies has been the M.O. of US Liberals since at least the early 1960s.

[M. Espinola]

(((Putin ping)))

[ex-Texan]

Putin has a way of crushing everybody who speaks out. He is more like Hitler than Stalin. He uses the 'appearance' of illegal activities to file charges against insiders who decide to criticize his policies. Putin's latest target is exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who lives in London.

Of course, the White House considers 'Puti Putin' to be a friend even though he personally ordered tons of Iraq's WMD smuggled to Syria. France and Germany also boxed everything up and shipped it out of the country. Bechtel Corp. made millions off Saddam building plants and allegedly making chemical weapons. Did we hear anything about Bechtel after we invaded Iraq? No? Neither did I. Oh, well . . . It's not for me worry anyway. I'm just a geezer living in Oregon.

[Timedrifter]

American leftwing sellouts believe Putin is the best thing since sliced bread.

You are actually way off base. It is the leftist "democracy and human rights" people who oppose Putin. That fact is Putin is much more conservative than our own president and is actually standing up for the interests of his own country and people. The reason Chechnya is relatively peaceful and Iraq is such a mess is that so called conservatives support the liberal agenda of the treasonous press which hates Putin as much as they do the War on Terror and especially our mission in Iraq. Putin put the treasonous press in his own country in their place and the second Chechen war turned out a lot differently than the first. It will take another two or three 9-11 attacks unfortunately before we realize we have to give up such liberal delusions.

[M. Espinola]

Your overview is correct. In terms of American elected leaders trusting this guy, the only thing Putin can be trusted in is undermining American influence around the globe. Moscow continues arming all of our most diabolical enemy's.

In relation to Berezovsky he needs eyes in the back of his head due to Putin's hit-men having a very long reach.

Notice in the case of OPEC's Iran and Venezuela, two of the most vicious anti-American, terrorist supporting régimes, the underlining link with Putin is energy. Putin continues building his natural gas empire which he already used to blackmail nations formerly dominated by Russia.

So much remains hidden in relation to the Kremlin's involvement with the 'disappearance' of Saddam's WMD (bio & chemical weapons) trucked into Syria.

The clone of Stalin can fool some of the people but not all of us.

[M. Espinola]

"You are actually way off base."

No you are, I have heard Upper West Side leftist Hillery supporters praise Putin 'for standing up to Bush'

"That fact is Putin is much more conservative than our own president and is actually standing up for the interests of his own country and people."

Your image of 'conservatism' is severely warped if KGB Putin is your shinning example.

Special police officers gather near Red Square in central Moscow, April 13, 2007. A coalition of fierce Kremlin critics, called 'Other Russia' are planning to defy an official ban by holding protest rallies in Moscow and St.Petersburg this weekend. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov

Do you term 'conservative' ordering hits against one's media critics? Is being 'conservative' calling out trained pro-Putin mobs yelling anti-American slogans in front of the American embassy?

Members of the pro-Kremlin ‘Nashi’ youth movement shouts anti-American slogans in front of the US embassy in Moscow. The protesters demand that the US stop interfering into other countries’ internal affairs

Is it in America's interest having Putin's neo-Soviet military machine supplying the Iranians, Syrians along with Hugo Chavez enough weapons to cause a lot of grief to a lot of people, as in Iran's case, murdering American troops?

"Putin put the treasonous press in his own country in their place.." You seem to like the way Putin dominates every aspect of Russian life, why not go all the way and relocate?

The pro-Kremlin speaker of the state Duma lower house of parliament, Boris Gryzlov, also on Thursday warned potential marchers they could be swept up into violence.

[GSlob]

"That fact is Putin is much more conservative than our own president and is actually standing up for the interests of his own country and people. "
The trouble is with putin's [and his people's] understanding of "the interests of his own country and people." Having large hostile minorities [wherever they are to be found and whomever they be - be they the chechens, the abkhasians, the kosovo albanians, or palestinians in the west bank and israel proper] cannot be in any country's interests simply because continuously keeping the lid on them is an open-ended drain on one's resources and is never worth it in the long run.

[ex-Texan]

A double dittos *BUMP*! to you, sir!