Supreme court ban on liberal party wipes out opposition to Putin
“The march’s leaders are being called in by police and intimidated. We are half a step away from a police state,” Denis Bilunov, a member of the march’s organising committee, told the Guardian. “There isn’t much point in talking about democracy in Russia any more.”
Today’s protest follows an opposition rally earlier this month in St Petersburg in which at least 5,000 people chanted slogans against Mr Putin, and which was violently dispersed by police.
Ain’t no half-step about it baby, you’ve arrived!
Yeah, like we needed the Soviet Union back. What was that Franklin said about “A Republic, madam, if you can keep it”?
Nancy Pelosi is running Russia too?
But was anybody prevented from doing an interview on NPR?
Even worse, was anybody treasonously discredited by having his wife’s innocuous day job mentioned in passing to a reporter by someone totally unrelated to Putin’s regime?
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Same as the old boss[/url]
wow..that didn’t work..
Meet the new boss
same as the old boss
So Putin is enforcing laws against the sad, small-party Communist Russo-hippies who want to bring back Lenin and break the back of Russian capitalism? Awwwww, that’s just too bad. He should really be nicer.
And I’m sure we’re getting the full, unbiased story from the sad, small-party Communist Russo-hippies in the media.
BBR, Putin’s not exactly into democracy by any Western standard. Not in Russia, and not in any of the former satellite states.
Hey who cares Dan? Bush looked into Putin’s soul and
found a friend. Isn’t that what really counts? LOL
Fucking scintillating, markg8. How long did you spend coming up with that brilliant retort? LOL!1!
One of the most frequent foreign visitors to the Clinton White House was Yassir Arafat. Bubba was convinced he could bring peace to the Middle East by kissing the ass of a man who ordered the murder a US diplomat.
Poor judgement isn’t limited to one party, is it?
Mark. You don’t say much, but when you do, you don’t say much.
This could only happen in Bush’s
AmeriKKKaRussiKKKa.I think that what happened is that Bush looked into Putin’s soul and saw terrible, Lovecraftian evil. He just said that stuff to keep anybody else from trying it.
Cthulhu, what have you been told about inhabiting the souls of foreign heads of state?
Um, to Cthulhu (pbuh), we’re all foreign.