Posted on 08/28/2019 8:31:00 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The Russian capital has been the site of the biggest anti-government protests in years after authorities last month barred more than a dozen opposition politicians from taking part in a Moscow city election. Police have briefly detained over 2,000 people, sometimes violently, at rallies that the authorities said were illegal.
“The main task at the job is to protect public order and ensure public safety at mass gatherings in Moscow,” reads the National Guard’s ad posted on Russia’s HeadHunter job site on Monday.
The recruits will be required to “suppress ... uprisings, public-order crimes committed by groups and mass pogroms.”
The National Guard made the Moscow job posting available to recruits from 52 Russian regions, Russia’s Open Media news website reported Tuesday. The posting has since been archived.
Russia’s National Guard is a powerful defense force that President Vladimir Putin founded in 2016 to take over the functions of riot police and better combat terrorism and protect public order. Critics say that the force was designed to target anti-government protesters.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
Moscow is the “liberal” city in Russia, the countryside in Russia is much more “conservative”.
If a crowd is blocking a street, then it is not a “peaceful” protest.
Russia won’t let Soros’ antifa mobs run amok.
Peaceful ‘liberal’ protestors indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ntNsubZTRs
More than a half ‘protestors’ arrested in Moscow aren’t local.
See post #5.
Nothing generates new conservative voters faster than a riot.
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