Posted: 4/14/2007 7:05:00 AM EDT
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They're baaaaaccckk! It's their nature and they can't change. Putin will never step down. HH --------------------------------------------------- www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1444695920070414 Russia police arrest 170 anti-Kremlin protesters Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:42AM EDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained at least 170 people, including chess champion Garry Kasparov, on Saturday as they snuffed out an attempt by opponents of President Vladimir Putin to protest near the Kremlin. Activists had planned to gather at a city centre square about one km (half a mile) from the Kremlin to protest at what they say is Putin's trampling of democratic freedoms and demand a fair vote to choose a new president in 2008. Teams of riot police, acting on a ruling from the city authorities banning the protest, pounced on protesters as they appeared in small groups near the square and swiftly loaded them into buses, Reuters witnesses said. "The authorities are afraid of their own citizens and they do not want citizens to influence what is happening in the country," Mikhail Kasyanov, a leader of the Other Russia opposition coalition that organized the protest, told Reuters. "On the eve of the elections ... of course the authorities are terribly scared of this and today's excessive actions by the police (are proof of that)," said Kasyanov, a former prime minister under Putin. Former chess grandmaster Kasparov, also an Other Russia leader, was taken to court in central Moscow. "He is charged with walking along among the crowd of people and shouting anti-government slogans," Yelena Liptser, one of his lawyers, said outside the court. Continued... |
I give it alot less then 30, especially now that they've droped the communist pretense and won't be pretending to be anything else but a dictatorship. This is more like the return of the Tsars then of the USSR. Only this time they will have oil money and have a Europe totally dependent on Russian natural gas. |
