Moscow Police Detain Over 200 Protestors

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CBS/AP

Moscow Police Detain Over 200 Protestors
Former Chess Champion Among Those Arrested At Banned Opposition March

MOSCOW, April 14, 2007

(CBS/AP) Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, and at least 200 other activists were detained by police Saturday as they gathered for a forbidden anti-Kremlin demonstration in central Moscow, reports CBS News correspondent Svetlana Berdnikova.

Among others arrested were youth movement leaders, two Reuters employees and a Russian Radio Echo correspondent.


Riot police officers detain a demonstrator outside a district police station where opposition leader Garry Kasparov was taken after being detained in Moscow, April 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Ex–premier Mikhail Kasyanov and former parliament deputy, now prominent opposition politician Irina Khakamada managed to escape detention thanks to the groups of supporters who surrounded them during the march.

The demonstrators were shouting "Russia without Putin," among other chants. Young people also lit firecrackers.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/14/world/main2683858.shtml

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FULL story and more photos at link.

[Joanne98]

1. CBS never praises OUR protestors!

[rodeodance]

2. Russia sure seems to be going downhill last few years.

[otherlander]

3. Wow... Look at the "comments" at the link.

:crazy: "Putin is an example of what happens when you give liberals too much power." That thug is definitley NOT a liberal. What the hell he is, I'm not really sure, but the left and right both seem to hate him.

[anotherdrew]

4. not as many as were held captive at the new york GOP convention n/t

[Judi Lynn]

5. Kick.

:kick:

[LoZoccolo]

6. Russian police beat, detain protesters

Source: Associated Press

MOSCOW - Riot police beat and detained protesters as thousands defied an official ban and attempted to stage a rally Saturday against President
Vladimir Putin's government, which opponents accuse of rolling back freedoms Russians have enjoyed since the end of Soviet communism.
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A similar march planned for Sunday in St. Petersburg has also been banned by authorities.

A coalition of opposition groups organized the "Dissenters March" to protest the economic and social policies of Putin as well as a series of Kremlin actions that critics say has stripped Russians of many political rights. Organizers said only about 2,000 demonstrators turned out.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_re_eu/russia_protests

[Joanne98]

7. They were probably CIA agents!

The media seems to have forgotten about our "protest pens"...

[SayWhatYo]

8. No. It wasn't the CIA...

It was goats dressed up as CIA agents who were dressed up as russian police.

[LoZoccolo]

9. Is this a joke?

Do you honestly have the idea that only our own government is capable of abusing civil rights?

[Joanne98]

10. I course not. Why do you hate America!

:hi:

[fujiyama]

13. LOL

Hey, don't forget the KGB, now the FSB was just about as ruthless as the CIA during the Cold War.

They have their own history of nastiness.

[youngdem]

11. Bush was in a pissy mood all day today because of this...He's extremely jealous

Bush and Cheney would love nothing more than to more closely mimic Putin's assault on the Russian population. They are doing their level best imitation.

[anotherdrew]

12. wow - it's just like the US in russia these days! n/t

[INDIA]

14. Not really. n/t

[anotherdrew]

15. 2000 turn out 75 arrested and released how is that different than a protest in the US? n/t

[Heidi]

16. Kick.

:kick:

[G_j]

17. Riot police crush anti-Putin rally

Source: Guardian UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2058032,00.html

Riot police crush anti-Putin rally


· Protesters in St Petersburg beaten and arrested
· Opposition coalition aims to 'save democracy'

Luke Harding and agencies in St Petersburg
Monday April 16, 2007
The Guardian


Russian riot police beat opposition demonstrators with batons in St Petersburg yesterday, during the biggest weekend of protests against Vladimir Putin's regime.
The violence began as some 500 demonstrators calling for the resignation of Russia's president moved towards a railway station. It followed a similar demonstration on Saturday in Moscow which saw 2,000 demonstrators march through the city centre, the largest ever anti-Putin demonstration in the Russian capital.

more..


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2058032,00.html

[lligrd]

18. No Wonder Dumya Like What He Saw In Putin

Their souls do share the same vision.

[jmc247]

19. Didn't Bush look into pootie poots eyes?

[tom_paine]

20. Yes, and he saw a fellow dictatorial monster devoid of conscience.

"Soul-mates" indeed.