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Hundreds arrested in Russia for protesting vote irregularities
Authorities detained some 200 people rallying in Moscow against suspected irregularities in the conduct of parliamentary elections, city police said. Another 70 demonstrators were arrested at a similar rally in Saint Petersburg.
By News Wires (text)
AFP - Around 200 people were detained in central Moscow on Sunday as radical opposition supporters and nationalists rallied against the conduct of Russia's parliamentary elections, city police said.
Police detained opposition supporters and a radical opposition leader as they rallied in central Moscow on Sunday evening with the slogan "Elections without an opposition are a crime."
"After repeated warnings about the illegal nature of the event, more than 100 people were detained," the Interfax news agency quoted a police spokesman as saying.
The group was being charged with administrative rather than criminal violations after the gathering on the Triumfalnaya Ploshad square, the spokesman added.
The group detained in Moscow included the radical opposition leader Eduard Limonov, who has announced his plan to stand in the March 2012 presidential race.
Protesters said that police detained other supporters as they arrived at the square. Around 90 people were detained, a police spokesman told Interfax.
Protesters shouted "Shame, Limonov for president!" and "Give us back our elections!" as police halted the rally on the square, where radical opposition supporters regularly attempt to hold demonstrations.
Another 70 people were detained at a similar event in Saint Petersburg, police said.
Just as polls closed at 9:00 pm (1700 GMT), nationalists tried to hold an unsanctioned rally on a square close to the Kremlin, with riot police moving in to grab one of their leaders, Alexander Belov, as he gave a speech.
Belov called the elections the "dirtiest in all the history of Russia" and called for a fresh vote.
"We do not recognise these elections, we will demand their cancellation."
Belov told journalists that several other nationalist leaders had been detained by police, shortly before riot police rushed in to grab him and push him into one of the waiting vans.
Nationalists last month rallied thousands for a sanctioned march through a Moscow suburb on a public holiday called the Day of National Unity, with whistle-blowing blogger Alexei Navalny giving a speech.
Police ringed the square, where members of pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi arrived shortly afterwards to hold a flag-waving rally aimed at celebrating election day, after United Russia saw disappointing exit polls.
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Dictators
Senator Barry Goldwater------>> Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.
Putin & Obama
A tiny degree of truth to previous post's vast oversimplification re: America's "empire" falling and Russia and China's gaining. Obama's progressives are really an offshoot of the degenerate Marxist-inspired revolutions of Europe and Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Obama channels Putin, though their styles are quite different. The Frankfurt School's operatives infiltrated US intelligensia long ago, their modern apostle being America's most corrupt city's Saul Alinski, who's piloted America's demise as best he could. Chicago's Alinski is godfather to Obama, Hillary, Rahm Emanual, Jon Corzine and other discredited economy-destroying termites active in American intelligensia, Washington DC, plundering government unions, and our lying Main Stream Media's political operatives.
Since more Americans now see Putin's/Obama's: "Intellectuals have to generate and spread hate and envy. It's what they do best", our electorate is on track to remove these secretive Putin-like operatives from our government. Once Obama's Euro-queens are removed the US can again generate prosperity and reinstate our historic Constitution's enabling the Freedom and Responsibility for The Common Man and Woman, with liberty and justice for all.
Here's hoping the Russians can finally gain (by their hard work) their true freedom which so many of us in the US want for Russia's historically great and long-suffering people.
Peeling Putin's Pride
A tiny degree of truth to previous post's vast oversimplification, in that Obama's progressives are really an offshoot of the degenerate Marxist-inspired revolutions of Europe and Russia. Obama channel putin their styles being different. The Frankfurt School's operatives infiltrated US intelligensia long ago, their modern apostle being the most corrupt city in America's Saul Alinski. Chicago's Alinski is godfather to Obama, Hillary, Rahm Emanual, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Jon Corzine and any number of other discredited economy-destroying termites active in American intelligensia, DC, our corrupt plundering government unions, and our lying Main Stream Media's political operatives.
Since more Americans now see that, "Intellectuals have to generate and spread hate and envy. It's what they do best", our electorate is on track to remove these Putin-like behind-the-scenes operatives from our government. And the US can again stand for our historic Constitution's enabling the Freedom and Responsibility for The Common Man and Woman, with liberty and justice for all.
Here's hoping the Russians can finally gain by their hard work their true freedom which so many of us in the US want for the historically great and long-suffering Russian people.
Russian elections
What's new???
ALl countries are the same, with many pretending to be DEMOCRATIC!
The truth is EVERY country has its own ESTABLISHMENT which consists of the Wealthy ,Powerful family and corporate elities who obtained their wealth by Corruption, Pivelege,Power but mainly by Inheritance.THESE are the Families who truly CONTROL governments/countries and they will DO ANYTHING , including and especially BRIBERY,REPRESSION and VIOLENCE,against the people of their own country and the people of other countries,such as via WAR, when they perceive their POWER is threatened.
EMPIRES become Empires by being MASTERS of those tactics...UNTIL the next Empire...to wit...the U.S.A. presently on its decline.
Are Russia and China next and are they going to share or fight over being the NEXT EMPIRE.
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