Posted on 12/30/2018 2:07:32 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
President Vladimir Putin defended the jailing of a 77-year-old veteran activist over calls to a protest, saying that Russia doesn’t want a repeat of events like the “yellow vest” demonstrations that have rocked France in recent weeks.
Moscow’s District Court sentenced human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov to 25 days in jail for allegedly called for a rally against the detention of a group of young people... Ponomaryov, whose sentence was later reduced to 16 days, was barred from attending the funeral of his longtime friend, veteran rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva — a ceremony Putin attended.
“We don’t want to have events that resemble those in Paris, in which cobblestone pavements are torn up and everything is set on fire,” the president said at an annual meeting with Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council on Tuesday when asked about Ponomaryov's detention.
Putin said that he'd ask prosecutors to review Ponomaryov’s detention, but added that it was “impossible” for him to “question the court’s decision.”
The president's comments came after historian Nikolai Svanidze told Putin at the meeting that it was "a shame and a disgrace" that Ponomaryov was in jail on the day of Alexeyeva's funeral, which also fell on the 100th anniversary of the birthday of dissident writer Alexander Solzhnenitsyn.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
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https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russia-outlaws-youth-protestors-63996
“We don’t want to have events that resemble those in Paris, in which cobblestone pavements are torn up and everything is set on fire,”...
He’s so dramatic.
Siberia still has many uncounted trees.
The permanent government types in the US may wear their velvet glove more often, but they're the same sort of iron fist when push comes to shove.
JMHo
Macron is a “human rights” activist
Don’t worry. Everyone still hates Putin.
True, if we allow those Democrat zombies, mesmerized by the Kremlin over the past several generations, to get majorities in both houses of Congress. Otherwise, we can go out and carry signs like hippies, if we want to.
Yeah, dramatic. Paris is totally cool. /s
Good for him, Hillary tried to launch that color revolution on him back in 2011.
Russia isn’t letting in hordes of Muslim ‘refugees’. They’re not choking the economy with environmental ‘taxes’. But they are locking up protesters for speaking freely.
If mass protests started in Russia, the government would kill as many people as necessary to quell them. If thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions had to be shot, it would be nothing that hasn’t happened before. Public protests, like hunger strikes, only happen in countries that have a modicum of respect for human life, or at least care about appearing so.
Russia has more Muslims than France, and radical Muslim republics within its own borders including Chechnya, Dagestan, and Inghusettia. The Kremlin actively invites Central Asian migrants to make up for the demographic shortfall of native Russians in the workforce.
The Russian economy is still bound by both globalist crony capitalist oligarchs whose wealth is stored in Western banks, and numerous Soviet holdovers including a failing universal healthcare system.
I don’t mean to sound condescending but just where do you get your info about Russia?
Repeal the 17th Amendment so we’re back to the Legislative Branch the Founding Fathers intended and we’d have control of both houses of Congress most of the time.
Gotcha
Unlike Putin, Trump doesn’t prop up the likes of Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.
A better idea would be to have an Electoral College at the state level, where Senators have to win a majority of counties to win.
Plenty of video of protesters digging out street stones for weapons and you saw the burning car videos.
That would violate the SC’s ‘one man, one vote’ rule.
Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.) note: estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule
Muslim 70.2%, Christian 26.2% (Russian Orthodox 23.9%, other Christian 2.3%), Buddhist 0.1%, other 0.2%, atheist 2.8%, unspecified 0.5% (2009 Census)
Muslim 75%, Russian Orthodox 20%, other 5%
Sunni Muslim 85%, Shia Muslim 5%, other 10% (2003 est.)
Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 20% (1997 est.)
Armenian Apostolic 92.6%, Evangelical 1%, other 2.4%, none 1.1%, unspecified 2.9% (2011 est.)
As for Venezuela, no way you can be so ignorant you think the US hasn't run that place for decades. The recent unpleasantness is due to the US ROI getting blow the acceptable point every bit as much as to the twit in charge there.
Trump this or Trump that, we're talking about who controls the permanent government and while Trump is making headway, he's not in charge yet, not by a long shot.
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