23.5.2006 13:26 MSK Police detain 7 supporting deceived investors RUSSIA, Moscow. On May 20th, near the Government building (“White House”) on the Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, the police detained 7 people who had arrived to express solidarity with participants in the tent town which was attacked during the night.
At 6:00pm, 10-12 people arrived at the White House with clean sheets of paper in their hands. Seven of them were detained by police without explanation and taken to the Presnenskey Regional RVD. The detainees are: Maria Smirnova, Roman Dobrokhotov, Sergey Kopylov, Igor Drandin, Aleksey Dakhin and Aleksandr Khatov.
An administrative case may be brought against them for "illegal picketing”.
Translated by OM Kenney PRIMA-News Agency [2006-05-20-Rus-44] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2006/5/23/36040.html
23.5.2006 13:26 MSK Police detain 7 supporting deceived investors RUSSIA, Moscow. On May 20th, near the Government building (“White House”) on the Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, the police detained 7 people who had arrived to express solidarity with participants in the tent town which was attacked during the night.
At 6:00pm, 10-12 people arrived at the White House with clean sheets of paper in their hands. Seven of them were detained by police without explanation and taken to the Presnenskey Regional RVD. The detainees are: Maria Smirnova, Roman Dobrokhotov, Sergey Kopylov, Igor Drandin, Aleksey Dakhin and Aleksandr Khatov.
An administrative case may be brought against them for "illegal picketing”.
Translated by OM Kenney PRIMA-News Agency [2006-05-20-Rus-44] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2006/5/23/36040.html
23.5.2006 13:26 MSK Police detain 7 supporting deceived investors RUSSIA, Moscow. On May 20th, near the Government building (“White House”) on the Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment, the police detained 7 people who had arrived to express solidarity with participants in the tent town which was attacked during the night.
At 6:00pm, 10-12 people arrived at the White House with clean sheets of paper in their hands. Seven of them were detained by police without explanation and taken to the Presnenskey Regional RVD. The detainees are: Maria Smirnova, Roman Dobrokhotov, Sergey Kopylov, Igor Drandin, Aleksey Dakhin and Aleksandr Khatov.
An administrative case may be brought against them for "illegal picketing”.
Translated by OM Kenney PRIMA-News Agency [2006-05-20-Rus-44] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2006/5/23/36040.html
Vladimir Putin / Photo from www.onlineathens.com Vladimir Putin / Photo from www.onlineathens.com Journalist on Trial for Calling Putin “Russia’s Phallic Symbol”
23.05.2006 The Prosecutor’s Office has launched criminal proceedings against the editor-in-chief of a Russian Internet newapaper for calling President Putin “Russia’s phallic symbol”.
The article by Vladimir Rakhmankov was published on www.cursiv.ru following Vladimir Putin’s state-of-the-nation address, Kommersant daily reports. In his speech, Putin said demography was Russia’s most pressing issue and the citizens should seek to boost birth rates.
In his article called “Putin as Russia’s Phallic Symbol”, Rakhmankov argued that Putin’s influence on his audience was so great that even beasts in Russian zoos responded to his call to breed immediately.
“Actually, Putin does look like the country’s phallic symbol — in all senses. So why not secure the symbolism officially in his address… We can now start producing new souvenirs — the president’s head as a penis’s head” says the article, seen by ... >>full
27.04.2005 Russian Republic Counters Threat Of ’Revolution’
Authorities in Russia’s ethnic republic of Bashkortostan have countered opposition talk of a «revolution» by announcing plans to minimize political activity in the region during the upcoming May holidays, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reported.
Bashkortostan’s Interior Ministry spokesman Ruslan Sherefetdinov released a statement on 25 April saying that his ministry has asked republican law-enforcement agencies to reduce political activity to a minimum from 1-9 May because of a «high risk of acts of terrorism," RFE/RL’s Ufa correspondent reported. Sherefetdinov said the measures were being taken by local authorities across Russia in connection with the antiterrorism campaign Operation Whirlwind.
Local political opposition groups have declared their intention to hold wide-scale protests against Bashkortostan President Murtaza Rakhimov’s administration on 1 May.
Opposition leaders Ramil Bignov and Anatolii Dubovskii told journalists on 15 April that a «revolution» would begin on 1 May with a massive demonstration in the republican capital Ufa. They ... >>full
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