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The Russian protests

Dec 13th 2011, 14:47 by The Economist online

The December 10th protests in Moscow and other cities against Russia's fradulent parliamentary election brought together a bigger and more varied set of people than previous opposition rallies.

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Russian1234

Superb critique analysis pertaining the election date, and votes of the populate in Russia about V. Putin, Prime Minister. Even more remarkably, demonstrators took to the streets in the biggest protests Russia has seen in years, chanting “Russia without Putin” before troops poured in to stop them (see article). Smaller protests took place in other cities. Now some 17,000 people have signed up for a protest on December 10th in Revolutionary Square, Moscow’s main public space. The government has asked them to find a different location.

Jacqueline Michelle BrownRamirez-Martinez (USA-USSR)
Fayetteville, NC

Russian1234

Superb critique analysis pertaining the election date, and votes of the populate in Russia about V. Putin, Prime Minister. Even more remarkably, demonstrators took to the streets in the biggest protests Russia has seen in years, chanting “Russia without Putin” before troops poured in to stop them (see article). Smaller protests took place in other cities. Now some 17,000 people have signed up for a protest on December 10th in Revolutionary Square, Moscow’s main public space. The government has asked them to find a different location.

Jacqueline Michelle Brown Ramirez-Martinez (USA Citizen)
Fayetteville, NC

boboclown

Jewish, especially exiled Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe and Russia should stop meddling in the affairs that concern eastern Europeans and Russians. Sure Golos means “Voice” in Russian, but it also means “Exile” in Yiddish. Look up Jacob Golos (born Yakov Naumovich Reizen; 1889 -1943), who was a Ukrainian-born Jewish Bolshevik revolutionary. Reizen joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1904, becoming active in the group's Bolshevik wing headed by V.I. Lenin (also Jewish as was Leon Trotsky). He then became a secret police operative on behalf of the USSR in the USA. A founding member of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), around 1930 Golos became involved in the covert work of Jewish Soviet intelligence agencies, including the procurement of American passports by means of fraudulent documentation and the recruitment and coordination of the activities of a broad network of agents. He changed his name to Golos because of his involvement with a pro-Bolshevik daily newspaper published in New York, Russky Golos or The Russian Voice. So, the so called independent election monitoring agency that's making accusations of election fraud in Russia is just that, Jewish trouble-making to aggravate tensions between the East and the West as they did during the Cold War which was coined by a Jewish named Walter Lippmann, as was the idea of Communism by the Jewish Karl Marx.

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Eastern approaches deals with the economic, political, security and cultural aspects of the eastern half of the European continent. It incorporates the long-running "Europe.view" weekly column. The blog is named after the wartime memoirs of the British soldier Sir Fitzroy Maclean.

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