SOON:Revolution in Russia

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On the threshold of forthcoming State Duma elections in Russia all civil society is boiling up: people are deadly tired of corruption, arbitrary decisions by judges, authority’s tyranny, abusing the Constitution. People want free election, they don’t want Putin will be the next president. Runet is filled with opposition videos, items, music, etc. Undoubtedly the next revolution will be in Russia. Help to spread this video and conduct democratic elections. Help to make the revolution and overthrow Putin's government!

watch?v=bTLMfLT3e5Y (youtube)
 
Revolution in Russia is over, Putin et al have won. Resistance is futile.
 
On the threshold of forthcoming State Duma elections in Russia all civil society is boiling up: people are deadly tired of corruption, arbitrary decisions by judges, authority’s tyranny, abusing the Constitution. People want free election, they don’t want Putin will be the next president. Runet is filled with opposition videos, items, music, etc. Undoubtedly the next revolution will be in Russia. Help to spread this video and conduct democratic elections. Help to make the revolution and overthrow Putin's government!

watch?v=bTLMfLT3e5Y (youtube)

If it doesn't work out in Moscow, Putin can always come over here and formally announce he's been running the DNC the last few years
 
on the threshold of forthcoming state duma elections in russia all civil society is boiling up: People are deadly tired of corruption, arbitrary decisions by judges, authority’s tyranny, abusing the constitution. People want free election, they don’t want putin will be the next president. Runet is filled with opposition videos, items, music, etc. Undoubtedly the next revolution will be in russia. Help to spread this video and conduct democratic elections. Help to make the revolution and overthrow putin's government!

Watch?v=btlmflt3e5y (youtube)

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Everyone in Russia over 30 remembers the old days. They are probably very grateful that they have a competent leader with sensible goals. It hasn't been that long, but if you look at how far russia has traveled in 18 years there is no way they want to go back. They like their relative freedom of speech, they like store full of all kinds of good stuff. They like they don't have to wait forever to be allowed to buy small amounts of dreck. They like having choices in elections. Of course, they keep making the same goofy choice, but they do so voluntarily. They have had their revolution from tyranny. They like it.

Now, that doesn't mean there wont be interesting results this next election. Russia is feeling pretty restive like the rest of the world. The Conservatives managed to push out labor after 15 years in the UK. Germany seems likely to give Merkel the door soon. The left is ready to make huge gains in France in the coming elections. The Republicans managed to switch 15% of the seats up for election in both the house and the senate last time, which for the US is huge.

So the next elections in Russia will be interesting. But Revolution against responsive, competent marginally honest governance? Who needs it?
 
Russia Moves to Quell Election Protests...
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Protests over Russian Elections Spread to More Cities
December 06, 2011 - Russia’s ruling party won only half of the votes in elections on Sunday. But opponents say even that poor showing was boosted by widespread fraud. Now they are protesting.
Protests against Sunday’s Duma elections are spreading across Russia. On Tuesday, the interior ministry flooded downtown Moscow with dozens of prison trucks and as many as 50,000 police and troops. Despite this show of force, protesters turned out and black helmeted riot police wrestled into detention a total of 300 people, largely off the sidewalks of Tverskaya, the capital’s most expensive shopping avenue. Police arrested 200 more in St. Petersburg and dozens more in other cities. Dozhd, a private internet TV channel reported that protests took place in 50 Russian cities. In Moscow, police protected pro-government demonstrators who banged drums and chanted “Rossiya, Rossiya.” Many protesters seemed to be high school students, brought in groups, and clearly unfamiliar with downtown Moscow’s streets and subways.

Denis, a member of an opposition party Yabloko, took refuge in Mayakovskaya subway station. He said he thought the pro-government protesters were paid. With the opposition planning a major Moscow protest for Saturday, a judge imposed 15-day sentences on two organizers arrested for disobeying police on Monday. They are: Ilya Yashin, an activist, and Alexey Navalny, a blogger with millions of online readers. Taking another tack, Russia’s ruling duo sought to cool widespread anger over the vote by announcing small concessions on national TV. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised to shake up government - if he is elected President in March. He promised to change governors and the cabinet. The cabinet has continued virtually unchanged during the four years of the Medvedev government, now widely seen as a caretaker time.

For his part, President Medvedev ordered the government agency that conducted Sunday’s election to investigate reports of vote rigging. Russia’s president also reacted harshly to Western criticism of Sunday’s election. As for foreigners, he said, Russia’s political system “is none of their business.” But U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on a visit to neighboring Lithuania, stepped up her criticism Tuesday, saying Russia’s elections were “neither free nor fair.” A Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman immediately responded. She called Ms. Clinton’s comments “unacceptable.” On Monday, after Ms. Clinton called for investigation into fraud charges, Konstantin Kosachev, a senior ruling party member, denounced the call as “one of the darkest pages in Russian-US relations.”

On Tuesday, US Senator John McCain, a Republican, was less diplomatic. After hearing of Monday’s nights arrests near the Kremlin, Senator McCain tweeted this message to Prime Minister Putin: “Dear Vlad, the Arab Spring is coming to a neighborhood near you.” In Moscow, Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the Duma, reacted with outrage. He compared the American senator to the Mad Hatter in the book Alice in Wonderland. Russia’s political unrest may now be taking an economic toll. On Tuesday, a finance ministry official raised the official estimate of capital flight from Russia. Now, he said it will surpass $85 billion this year.

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Russia Cracks Down on Antigovernment Protests
December 6, 2011 - Russian riot police officers detained demonstrators in St. Petersburg on Tuesday during a protest over the results of this week’s parliamentary elections.
The Russian authorities acted decisively to quash a second day of protests against the government and Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin on Tuesday, flooding the appointed site with throngs of pro-government activists who banged on tin drums, drowning out the chants of “Russia without Putin!” Several hundred protesters convened in a central square, hoping to maintain the momentum from Monday, when as many as 5,000 protested alleged fraud in parliamentary elections. The smaller crowd that formed Tuesday, however, was rapidly choked off by riot police officers who dragged many of them away. Police officials told the Interfax news service that 250 people had been detained, slightly fewer than the 300 who were detained Monday. Even as those reports filtered out, antigovernment activists were calling via Twitter for a third round of protests on Wednesday.

The authorities have made an example of two of the leaders of Monday’s protest — a liberal activist, Ilya Yashin, and the blogger Aleksei Navalny, who famously branded Mr. Putin’s party, United Russia, “the Party of Swindlers and Thieves.” Both men were sentenced to 15 days in prison on Tuesday for disobeying police orders. Supporters camped out on the street in hopes of glimpsing Mr. Navalny, sharing cold cuts and thermoses of tea and a mood that was almost giddy because of Monday’s turnout. Meanwhile, military buses carried reinforcements to help the troops that have been deployed in the capital since Sunday’s elections. As Tuesday’s rally dissolved, Valentin Scutaru, 24, said he was not troubled. He said the events of the last weeks had convinced him that public opinion was turning against Mr. Putin.

“This is not going to be our last meeting,” Mr. Scutaru said. “Many people have been lied to, and they know they were lied to, lied to in an ugly way. We know that we believe in something, and we are going to insist on it.” Many young people said this round of parliamentary elections had drawn them into political activism for the first time. A 19-year-old economics student, Dmitri Sherbak, related the story of his first arrest buoyantly, saying it had motivated him instead of frightening him. Dmitri Mikhailchenko, 23, who said he witnessed ballot-box stuffing at a Moscow polling place on Sunday, said: “People’s mentality has changed. I can’t stand being lied to anymore.”

As the Tuesday protest wound down, a column of several hundred people broke off and began marching down a major thoroughfare. As people in passing cars honked their support, some protesters tried to block traffic, but they were set upon by riot police officers, one of whom was hit by a car in the scuffle. In Sunday’s elections, the governing party, United Russia, lost a surprisingly large number of seats in the Duma, the lower house of Parliament. With 99.9 percent of the votes counted, election officials said United Russia had won 238 seats in Parliament, or about 53 percent, down from its current 70 percent. The Communist Party won 92 seats; Just Russia, a social democratic party, won 64 seats and the national Liberal Democratic Party won 56 seats. Leaders of the opposition parties said that United Russia’s losses would have been steeper were it not for ballot-stuffing and other abuses reported by international observers and, in some cases, documented by citizens who posted home videos on the Internet.

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The DNC is capitalist and democratic, and you are insane.

No, he's just a liar.

Revolution in Russia wouldn't mean a return to the Communist era. It would be part of the global democracy movement that we see happening in many places, including the U.S.
 
Putin critic goes on trial...
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny goes on trial
17 April 2013 - One of Russia's leading opposition figures, Alexei Navalny, has gone on trial for embezzlement.
Federal investigators in Moscow brought the charges over a timber deal in the Kirov region in which he was involved as an unofficial adviser in 2009. The 36-year-old, known for his blogs denouncing President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party as crooks, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. After a short hearing, the judge adjourned the case for a week.

'Fabricated'

Mr Navalny's trial began at 09:10 local time (05:10 GMT) at the Leninsky court in the remote city of Kirov, 900km (550 miles) north-east of Moscow. He is accused of involvement in the misappropriation of 16m roubles (£300,000; $500,000) from a timber firm he was advising in 2009 while working as an adviser to Kirov's governor, Nikita Belykh. Almost immediately, the defence asked the judge for the trial to be adjourned until next month, arguing that lawyers had not had enough time to prepare the case. Mr Navalny is the most high-profile opposition figure to be tried since anti-Putin protests 16 months ago, which saw the biggest demonstrations in Moscow since the fall of the USSR.

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'I am not afraid of them', Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

Since Mr Putin's re-election last March, legal action against opposition figures has increased markedly. Tough laws have been passed on public order offences and tight curbs placed on non-governmental organisations. Dressed in a white shirt and jeans, Mr Navalny told the court he fully backed the proposal to adjourn the case, complaining that it was far from his home in Moscow. The judge agreed to an adjournment but said the trial would resume on 24 April. Mr Navalny has accused Mr Putin of personally ordering the case against him and has called the charges "absurd". In a recent interview with the BBC's Daniel Sandford, Mr Navalny said the charges were "blatantly fabricated".

But he said it was important for the Kremlin to bring this case against him in order to try to discredit him. "If you put an anti-corruption activist into prison for participating in a political protest, it will only help his publicity. But if you say that he is corrupt…" Analysts say his conviction would be a major blow to an opposition which for years suffered the lack of a central figure or platform. Distancing Mr Putin from the case, his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that the leader would not be following it.

BBC News - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny goes on trial

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A glance at Kremlin's top foe, Alexei Navalny
Apr 17,`13 -- Alexei Navalny, an obscure adviser to a provincial governor just four years ago, shot up to become the Kremlin's public enemy No.1. The web-savvy 36-year-old lawyer overcame a state-imposed national media blackout and minimal funds by exploiting his blog and Twitter account to reach hundreds of thousands of Russians.
Navalny went on trial Wednesday in Kirov on embezzlement charges but was granted an adjournment for more time to prepare. Navalny, the opposition's most popular and charismatic figure, says the charges were fabricated on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Here's a glance at his campaigns which provoked official wrath.

CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS:

Navalny first made a name for himself in 2009 by buying minority stakes in state-run companies and using his shareholder status to obtain internal documents. He then posted them on his blog, accusing officials of stealing more than $150 million from the state-controlled VTB bank and a staggering $4 billion from the oil pipeline operator Transneft. His findings and rapier-like wit won Navalny a large network of followers, which he tapped for crowd-funding of his Foundation for Fighting Corruption. Its targets range from lawmakers who order luxury cars at taxpayers' expense to local officials slow to fix potholes. Navalny's document-based investigations have filled a gap in Russia, where investigative journalism has been severely limited by censorship and attacks on reporters.

KREMLIN'S PARTY:

While Putin still enjoys approval ratings that would be the envy of any Western leader, the Kremlin-run United Russia party, which includes the bureaucracy nationwide, has been widely despised for corruption, nepotism and inefficiency. Navalny seized on that anger with a campaign to brand United Russia as "the party of crooks and thieves" and urged his followers to vote for any other of the parties running in the December 2011 parliamentary elections. United Russia ended up with its worst result ever and had to rely on massive vote-rigging - documented by independent observers - to retain its majority in parliament.

PROTEST MOVEMENT:

The egregious ballot fraud in the 2011 parliamentary vote triggered a series of massive street protests in Moscow that attracted up to 100,000 demonstrators who opposed Putin's return to the presidency. Navalny rose to rock star status, electrifying crowds by chanting "We are the power!" and claiming that "we have enough people to seize the Kremlin." Some said, however, that Navalny missed his chance by failing to enter the 2012 presidential race and focusing instead on promoting an election to an opposition alternative parliament that quickly fizzled into irrelevance. After Putin won a third presidential term in March 2012, the Kremlin responded to the opposition with a series of searches and arrests of activists, a package of repressive laws that hiked fines 150-fold for participants in unsanctioned protests and tight new restrictions on non-government organizations.

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That does not even make sense, CrusaderStatist, from you.

Putin should realize he can't push Communism on two fronts; he needs to pick between Moscow or the DNC.

The DNC is capitalist and democratic, and you are insane.
The DNC is capitalist....bwahahaha

yeah Obamacare...bailouts and takeovers....government control...yep real capitalism

Oh I forgot, you think Hitler was a capitalist......
 
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On the threshold of forthcoming State Duma elections in Russia all civil society is boiling up: people are deadly tired of corruption, arbitrary decisions by judges, authority’s tyranny, abusing the Constitution. People want free election, they don’t want Putin will be the next president. Runet is filled with opposition videos, items, music, etc. Undoubtedly the next revolution will be in Russia. Help to spread this video and conduct democratic elections. Help to make the revolution and overthrow Putin's government!

watch?v=bTLMfLT3e5Y (youtube)

If it doesn't work out in Moscow, Putin can always come over here and formally announce he's been running the DNC the last few years

Putin is one bad ass, he would actually do too well as a politician in the USA, he has definitely gave American politicians a run and don't even live here, if the silly Russians want to shitcan him, he is welcome to move here.
 
Putin should realize he can't push Communism on two fronts; he needs to pick between Moscow or the DNC.

The DNC is capitalist and democratic, and you are insane.
The DNC is capitalist....bwahahaha

yeah Obamacare...bailouts and takeovers....government control...yep real capitalism

Oh I forgot, you think Hitler was a capitalist......

Welfare is not socialism.

Hitler allied with the capitalists to over throw the party's socialist wing under Roem.

But you know that and just love to lie.
 
Well, it's a pretty crazy thread, so I guess I should not be surprised by the RW loon posts. LOL

the maj of Russians seem realitivey OK with essentially a totalatarian regieme so long as they can read, listen to and watch what they want, and food and energy are affordable.
 

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