This doesn't mention it (because the writer likely doesn't know -- *insert "rolls eyes" emoticon here*), but Other Russia is named after the National Bolshevik Party manifesto. "Arrested" should be "detained," BTW. I remember last year when Kasparov claimed that he had been "arrested" after he was detained for an hour and fined $35.
I knew this was gonna happen. It's OR's "nobody in Russia likes us, so let's break the law, so we can get ourselves filmed on camera being oppressed for a foreign audience" strategy.
--- Rick Kisséll <rick at kissell.org> wrote:
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> More activists arrested in Russia
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> Russian police have
> broken up an opposition rally, arresting activists
> for the second day running.
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> Police detained about 150 people
> in St Petersburg, including opposition leader Boris
> Nemtsov - who was later freed.
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> Another opposition figure,
> former chess champion Garry Kasparov, was arrested
> at a rally in Moscow on Saturday.
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> Both protests were organised by opposition group
> The Other Russia. The White House and the Council of
> Europe have expressed concern at the arrests.
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> Mr
> Kasparov was jailed for five days for leading an
> unauthorised march.
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> The Other Russia brings together a broad coalition
> of mainstream politicians, leftists and
> nationalists, all of whom are opposed to the
> Kremlin.
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> It accuses the government
> of crushing dissent ahead of elections.
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> White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said on
> Sunday that the US was concerned at the "aggressive
> tactics" used by Russian authorities.
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> He called for arrested
> opposition figures "to be given proper access to
> legal counsel and fair treatment in processing".
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> The secretary general of the Council of Europe, an
> EU human rights watchdog, also expressed concern,
> the news agency AFP reported.
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> Banners
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> Several hundred people took part in the St
> Petersburg protest - much fewer than Saturday's
> gathering of about 3,000 people in Moscow.
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> Activists holding white flowers met near the
> headquarters of the liberal Yabloko party, and
> headed to the site of the unauthorised rally.
>
> Mr Nemtsov, a leader of
> the opposition SPS party and a candidate in
> presidential elections due in March, addressed the
> crowd.
>
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> "They have forbidden us
> from discussing Putin," he said.
>
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> "But we have come here
> today to ask Mr Putin and the authorities why is
> there so much corruption in the country?"
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> Riot police reportedly moved in when some
> protesters unfurled banners of the banned National
> Bolshevik Party and marched towards the Winter
> Palace, the residence of the tsars.
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> Correspondents put the
> number of people taken away in police vans at about
> 200.
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> Mr Nemtsov was among them -
> but was subsequently released from custody.
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> The parliamentary poll to
> be held on 2 December is widely expected to be won
> by President Vladimir Putin's supporters.
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> Story from BBC NEWS:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7111753.stm
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> Published: 2007/11/25 20:49:57 GMT
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> © BBC MMVII
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