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Don't know anything about this blog or how reliable it is or isn't -- but the Nashi movement is apparently a very real thing.
1 posted on 07/17/2007 4:04:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I think these were the guys who were piling-into buses and traveling to Estonia in order to protest the removal of that statue.


2 posted on 07/17/2007 4:05:52 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To be fair on one (one) point: in the United States, there is sometimes the tendency to act as though it was the United States who singly won World War 2--so it could be a tiny bit hypocritical to criticize this group on that one point.
3 posted on 07/17/2007 4:08:39 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: BenLurkin
Tue Jul 17, 1:35 PM ET

"Activists of the pro-Kremlin Nashi (Ours) youth movement attend an open air lecture at their summer camp near to Lake Seliger, some 450 kilometers (281 miles) northwest of Moscow, Tuesday, July 17, 2007. The movement claims to enlist tens of thousands of supporters throughout Russia and positions itself as a youth wing of the United Russia ruling party." (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

"Members of the pro-Kremlin youth movement "Nashi" practise with rifles during a military lecture in the Nashi summer camp on Lake Seliger some 300 km (186 miles) north-west of Moscow July 17, 2007. Some 10,000 youths from all over Russia live for up to two weeks in the camp, where they do sports and attend political and socially oriented lectures, the organisers said." REUTERS/Thomas Peter (RUSSIA)

"Members of the pro-Kremlin youth movement "Nashi" and instructors perform martial arts at the Nashi summer camp on the Lake Seliger, some 300 km (186 miles) northwest of Moscow, July 17, 2007. Some 10,000 youths from all over Russia live for up to two weeks in the camp, where they do sports and attend political and socially oriented lectures, the organisers said." REUTERS/Thomas Peter (RUSSIA)

4 posted on 07/17/2007 4:10:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Bush the idiot seems clueless as usual to what’s going on in Russia. I’ll be so happy when Fred replaces him.


8 posted on 07/17/2007 4:42:05 PM PDT by RedOhioan
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To: M. Espinola
Ping
10 posted on 07/17/2007 4:58:36 PM PDT by familyop
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To: BenLurkin

Bump....


11 posted on 07/17/2007 5:28:47 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( Today is a good day for working on some heavy praying. The world needs God to hear them.)
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To: BenLurkin

l8tr


13 posted on 07/17/2007 7:09:13 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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