* Alexei Navalny was jailed for 30 days upon his return to Russia on January 17 after months spent in Germany
* Yulia Navalnaya, 44, posted a selfie in the back of the police van as thousands of Navalny supporters joined
* On Monday, he urged his supporters to take to the streets in protest his arrest. People obliged on Saturday
* Protests took in temperatures as low as minus 60F (51C), with around 1,300 people arrested so far
* Heavily armed OMON special forces officers and national guards were present, and seen clashing with people
* There were seen throwing protesters into the back of a fan over chants of 'shame' from others in the rally
The wife of Alexei Navalny has been detained at an anti-government demonstration in Moscow while major anti-Kremlin demonstrations broke out in over 60 cities in Russia on Saturday in support of the jailed Putin-critic.
Yulia Navalnaya, 44, posted a selfie in the back of the police van as thousands of Navalny supporters joined demonstrations against the Kremlin, captioned: 'Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.'
Around 5,000 demonstrators gathered in Moscow's central Pushkin Square and nearby streets despite a heavy police presence and detentions, holding signs that read 'Russia will be free' and chanting 'Putin is a thief.'
Some then marched towards the Kremlin, while others blocked Tverskaya Street, the capital's main thoroughfare.
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WNU Editor: These protests are far larger and more widespread than what I had expected. Even Russia's news media is force to cover it (albeit with a pro-Kremlin slant) .... Moscow police detain Navalny supporters staging unsanctioned rally to demand release of jailed opposition figure (RT). More here .... Watch Russian Policewoman Hand Out Face Masks to Youth Attending Unauthorised Rally in Moscow (Sputnik)
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3 comments:
I agree with you, boss. Far more dissatisfaction on display here than I would have expected. Hopefully it gets Russians to a better place.
Putin, among others, is not so popular with the new order, it appears.
The Times They Are A'changin'. Internet suppression is a difficult and messy endeavor.
get ur guns out and fire u fools
Perhaps stop getting "news" from Zero Hedge and try reliable sources!!
WASHINGTON — The military said on Friday that it was sending Bradley fighting vehicles, advanced radar and more fighter jet patrols to northeast Syria, three weeks after a Russian armored vehicle rammed an American ground patrol and injured seven American soldiers.
The reinforcements, which add about 100 troops to the more than 500 U.S. forces already there, represent a show of force in response to the clash last month that caught American commanders off guard. They are also likely to escalate tensions between the two rival powers in the country’s hotly contested northeast.
“These actions are a clear demonstration of U.S. resolve to defend coalition forces,” Capt. Bill Urban, a spokesman for the military’s Central Command, said in an email, “and to ensure that they are able to continue their defeat-ISIS mission without interference.”
The new deployment came on the same day that President Trump declared that American troops “are out of Syria,” except to guard the region’s oil fields. “Other than that, we are out of Syria,” Mr. Trump said at White House news conference, making no mention of what the Pentagon says is the main mission there: to help its Syrian Kurdish allies fight remnants of the Islamic State.
The deployment includes a handful of Bradley fighting vehicles — the same that were dispatched for a month to the region last fall — as well as Sentinel radars to track Russian helicopters, and increased fighter jet and Apache helicopter gunship patrols to support American ground forces. It has been in the works since the altercation in Syria revealed the latest Russian test of American military resolve in the region and around the world.
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