RUSSIAN CRISIS: Stock Exchange down more than 4.5%. Saturday's Protest est to be over 100K - largest in 20 yrs.

How Alexey Navalny is changing Putin's Russia

As an anti-corruption and anti-Putin crusader, Navalny's stature in Russia hovers somewhere between that of a rock star and a shadow president. "The party of crooks and thieves,” Navalny’s epithet of Putin's ruling United Russia, has become universal and Navalny himself is credited with providing both the brains and the spine that humiliated the party in Sunday's parliamentary election with a below-majority victory – a humiliation made starker by the fact that the election was rife with fraud.


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RUSSIA’S NETWORKED ACTIVISTS SHIFT THE MOMENTUM AGAINST PUTIN

In the days and hours before the elections, hundreds of blogs and independent sites suffered DDoS attacks, overloading servers and forcing them offline. In response many mainstream bloggers and journalists began offering the use of their websites to broadcast content from the effected sites.


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FLASH: Russian Military Machines BTR ("tanks") involved in a car crash on Moscow Highway.


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Alexei Navalny: the man who's got Russians ranting at Putin

Navalny is the charismatic 35-year-old lawyer who coined the phrase 'Thieves and crooks', taken up to describe Putin's United Russia party by the protesters who have flooded central Moscow over the past two days.

He was sentenced yesterday to 15 days in jail for supposedly 'obstructing' the police on Monday, as thousands of Muscovites began protesting against the results of the weekend parliamentary elections, widely believed to have been fixed.

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SenJohnMcCain John McCain
Dear Vlad, The #ArabSpring is coming to a neighborhood near you

there has been a lot of involvement of USA in the protests but there was also fraud in elections.

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Opposition in Moscow says Sat protest will be the largest political demo in 20+ years

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FLASH: USA warns all american citizens in Moscow to stay at home tomorrow

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This will not end well for those protestors..

All the Wrong Moves: Putin Plots His Strategy Against the Protesters


On Thursday morning, while the Russian opposition was busy preparing another wave of demonstrations in Moscow and more than 70 other cities, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with his team of imagemakers to discuss their counterstrategy. They chose to envision their dilemma as a game of chess. "We need to look at the chessboard," Putin said, "where all the moves are clear, both the white and the black." The opponent in this game, as Putin went on to explain, is not so much local opposition leaders, who this week organized the largest protests ever against his rule, but the "American partners" moving them around like pawns.

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Long list of NGOs in Russia:

[link to www.ned.org]


Regional Civic Organization in Defense of Democratic Rights and Liberties “GOLOS”
$65,000

To carry out a detailed analysis of the autumn 2010 and spring 2011 election cycles in Russia, which will include press monitoring, monitoring of political agita­tion, activity of electoral commissions, and other aspects of the application of elec­toral legislation in the long-term run-up to the elections. GOLOS will hold local and national press conferences and publish reports on its findings, as well as pro­vide detailed methodological advice to its monitors and other monitoring agencies.

Last Edited by DoorBert on 12/09/2011 08:56 AM

great posting Doorbert, thanks for the info

:pinit:

Thanks DG!

Saturday’s rally in Moscow over the State Duma election results has been moved from Ploshchad Revolutsii to Bolotnaya Ploshchad.

As a result, organizers have now been granted permission for up to 30,000 people to protest on Dec. 10 between 2 and 6 pm -- up from the 300 that were permitted at the original location.

[link to www.themoscownews.com]

Pop quiz called for all students in Moscow tomorrow to keep them off the streets.

[link to echo.msk.ru]

Russian opposition prepares for massive rally

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