What a complete load of horseshit. Do I really have to explain the reasons why again?
--- Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/16/D8M239DG0.html
> By MARIA DANILOVA
> Associated Press Writer
> Hundreds Detained Ahead of Moscow Rally
> Dec 16 1:01 PM US/Eastern
> MOSCOW
> Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition
> activists off buses
> and trains and detained them along with scores of
> others on Saturday
> ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow,
> organizers said.
>
> The police action did not prevent more than 2,000
> people from
> gathering in a central square, where leftist and
> liberal groups
> demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin stop
> what they called
> Russia's retreat from democracy.
>
> "In 15 months political power will be changed," said
> Mikhail Kasyanov,
> a former prime minister who is now an opposition
> leader, referring to
> the March 2008 presidential election.
>
> "Next year everyone should make a personal decision
> about what to do
> with our country _ whether we allow these people to
> continue their
> illegal undertakings ... or we finally make our main
> goal to build a
> democratic and socially oriented state," Kasyanov
> told demonstrators.
>
> Garry Kasparov, the former chess grand master who
> has emerged as one
> of the Kremlin's most prominent critics, said the
> mere fact that the
> rally took place made it a success, given the
> efforts by authorities
> to stop it.
>
> "We are protesting and it means that authorities are
> not as monolithic
> and powerful" as they believe, he said. "They are
> afraid that one day
> we will tell them 'enough.'"
>
> The demonstrators chanted "Freedom" and held banners
> reading "No to
> Police State" and "Russia Without Putin."
>
> Since he took office in 2000, Putin has taken
> steady, gradual steps to
> centralize power and eliminate democratic checks and
> balances.
>
> He has created an obedient parliament, abolished
> direct gubernatorial
> elections, tightened restrictions on rights groups
> and presided over
> the elimination of most opposition voices from the
> media, especially
> the television networks.
>
> The demonstration, organized by the Other Russia
> movement and other
> opposition groups, had originally planned to march
> down a main Moscow
> avenue. City authorities banned the march, allowing
> only the rally.
>
> Organizers had vowed to conduct the march in
> defiance of the ban. But
> Natalya Morar, spokesman for Other Russia said
> police and defense
> troops had sealed off Triumfalnaya Square _ the
> scene of the protest _
> and lined the avenue.
>
> An AP photographer saw more than 1,000 law
> enforcement officers in
> full riot gear, some with police dogs, cordoning off
> the Triumfalnaya
> Square. Moscow residents complained the city was
> flooded with police
> and troops.
>
> About 80 protesters, including Ivan Starikov, a
> senior member of the
> liberal Union of Right Forces, were detained in
> Moscow throughout the
> day, many of them without any explanation, Morar
> said.
>
> About 320 other opposition activists were detained
> or taken off trains
> and buses on their way to Moscow, she said. Some
> were kept in
> detention cells, she said, while others were
> released after the rally
> was over.
>
> Yevgeny Gildeyev, spokesman for the Moscow police
> said some 8,500 law
> enforcement officers were deployed in the city on
> Saturday. He said he
> did not know how many opposition activists were
> detained.
>
> Russia's often fractious opposition has faced
> increased harassment in
> recent years, especially after protests led to the
> toppling of
> governments in the former Soviet states of Georgia
> and Ukraine.
>
> Authorities have banned meetings on dubious legal
> grounds, while party
> congresses have been broken up or canceled for no
> reason.
>
> --
> Michael Pugliese
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