Posted on Aug 3, 2019
Even with most leaders in jail, Russia's opposition plans another protest
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Russian authorities on Friday moved to press criminal charges against 10 people for their involvement in what they called mass unrest at an opposition protest last weekend, as defiant Kremlin critics vowed to hold another rally on Saturday.
Police rounded up more than 1,300 people at an unauthorized protest in Moscow last Saturday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent years on an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin's tight grip on power.
Despite several of its leaders being jailed over the protest for up to 30 days, the opposition plans to stage another rally on Saturday, capitalizing on tensions as Putin's ratings have slipped following years of falling incomes.
Police rounded up more than 1,300 people at an unauthorized protest in Moscow last Saturday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent years on an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin's tight grip on power.
Despite several of its leaders being jailed over the protest for up to 30 days, the opposition plans to stage another rally on Saturday, capitalizing on tensions as Putin's ratings have slipped following years of falling incomes.
Even with most leaders in jail, Russia's opposition plans another protest
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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Bless those who dare to challenge this authoritarian regime. N. Korea is far less tolerant of any kind of negativity directed to Kim. Anyway, the direction our country is moving, Putin's next job is emperor of America and Trump as Vice Emperor!
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