Posted on 04/14/2007 8:04:45 PM PDT by blam
Hundreds held in Moscow anti-Putin protests
By Helen Womack, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 11:54pm BST 14/04/2007
Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, was among about 200 people arrested yesterday as the Russian regime moved to stamp out the least sign of opposition to President Vladimir Putin.
Thousands of riot police and interior ministry soldiers in camouflage battledress locked down the city centre to prevent a march by The Other Russia, a coalition of groups that accuse Mr Putin of dismantling democracy.
Riot police detain former world chess champion Garry Kasparov at a protest in Moscow
Trouble was clearly brewing from early morning as people wanting to join the march were taken off buses and trains arriving from the provinces. Prisons were said to be releasing petty criminals to make room for demonstrators.
Mr Kasparov said that he was arrested as he walked towards a metro station. "They encircled us and detained us all."
He condemned the police for a "bandit attack on citizens of Russia, who did nothing illegal but were just walking on the streets of their capital".
He said that many protesters were arrested and beaten. Yelena Liptser, his lawyer, said that he had been charged with walking in the crowd shouting anti-government slogans.
Opposition leaders had been warned not to gather on Pushkin Square, but said that they were outraged at the massive security operation.
"What's going on with the authorities? Have they lost their minds?" asked Mikhail Kasyanov, the former prime minister, as paramilitary police stopped him entering the square.
Thousands of riot police locked down the city centre to prevent a march by The Other Russia
The clashes came after the London-based oligarch Boris Berezovsky called for the overthrow of Mr Putin. Mr Berezovsky and Mr Kasparov are critical of the erosion of democracy under President Putin but there is no evidence that they are linked and protest organisers distanced themselves from Mr Berezovsky. He is not loved by ordinary Russians, even those longing for change.
A dissident said: "It is nothing to do with Berezovsky, He is a trouble-maker, quite a poisonous person. We do not need him to fight our battles. We will oppose Putin in our own way."
Barbari sunt, barbarice egit.
Someone please do us all a favor and go to this site, find the cardboard cut-out of Putin wrapped in plastic at the bottom of the page and paste it over here. Believe me, it's a keeper.
I'm not good at posting pics. Link here.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070414/D8OGKUNO0.html
Thanks!
Putin= Hard-Core-Commie...He’s been in the process of reinstating Communism in Gog for years.
Putin is trying to get Gog back to her former “glory”
Yeah, give Bob Kraft back his Super Bowl ring huh you stinkin thief !!!
Where are the trolls cryin about the Bush regime and habeus corpus?
There is nobody else there but the hardcore behavioral commies. There are relatively few civilizational westerners, like Kasparov, the late Anna Politkovskaya and others - they are out of place there; the Western civ would benefit from their immigration, and their absence would merely accelerate the composting and collapse of the Western Xinkiang dunghill.
Looks like those riot police have been over-indulging in the fruits of democracy: Dunkin Doughnuts.
Or maybe they’ve just been laying in food stores for the coming Commie Diet Plan they will be on.
“This was a very good meeting. And I look forward to my next meeting with President Putin in July. I very much enjoyed our time together. He’s an honest, straightforward man who loves his country. He loves his family. We share a lot of values. I view him as a remarkable leader. I believe his leadership will serve Russia well. Russia and America have the opportunity to accomplish much together; we should seize it. And today, we have begun. “
-George Bush Office of the Press Secretary
June 16, 2001
Please don’t bring up food for thought.
It’s hard to read...at least for me it is.... i really did think that Putin may have been a good thing at one time...how times change...i’m sure GWB thinks a little differently now...at least i hope.
Ah, Russian redheads. :) Too bad she posed with the cutout of that monster.
For the FR record! LOL!!
It's an AP photo. She's a military guard...on cardboard cut-out duty.
She looks like she'd rather be somewhere else.
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