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Posted by Yes the public does and will care more... on September 12, 2005 at 09:34:03:
In Reply to: Re: things getting wrose before they posted by get better - but does RU public care? on September 12, 2005 at 05:35:52:
I woulldn't worry about the National Bolsheviks that much. They are a disturbance similar to Ukranian Nationalistic Party (I don't remember the exact name but they adhere to Nazi symbolics) that staged a few rallies in Kiev last year in order to discredit Yuschenko by publically voicing their support for him.
Regarding as to the whether the public will care, when the government replaced benefits to seniors and students with cash payments in December, the public has mobilized against it, big time. There were massive protest with 50,000-70,000 people participating. There were even small tent cities
set up not unlike in Kiev in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Also the public is becoming increasingly angry with Putin over his handling of the war in Chechnya as well as the growing controversy over the Beslan school siege last year. Russians are just like Ukrainians in some regard on this aspect: They can take a lot but there is only so much they can take...
Keep in mind that during 1991 coup it was the Russians in Moscow and St. Petersburg as well as in many other Russian cities who stood up against the Communist hardliners who imprisoned Gorbachev and overthrew them. When Yeltsin announced that "Russia is leaving the Soviet Union" (sounds exactly the type of thing that he would say) at that time, the other republics saw it as the green light to independence. Kravchuk on the other hand initially supported the hardliners despite massive protests in all parts of the country, and only two days after the Communist Party was banned in Russia, Kravchuk has resigned from it and the Ukranian Rada declared independence.
http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1991/359105.shtml
Therefore, I think Russia's time will come.
: Thanks for your input.
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: "it will have to get worse before it is going to get better"
: Well, on that note -
: "Moscow city authorities has rejected the appeal by the My (We) youth movement for holding a rally demanding Russian President Vladimir Putin resignation in downtown Moscow, Ekho Moskvy radio station reported."
: http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/09/11/banresign.shtml
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: "The 39 defendants sat in cages lined up against the wall of a Moscow courtroom one day last month. The prisoners, most of them students in their teens and early twenties, were members of the National Bolshevik Party, a radical opposition group with a penchant for tossing eggs at officials, gate-crashing government buildings and generally thumbing their noses at authority.
: They are accused of creating a "mass disturbance" in December after they burst into a reception room at the public offices of President Vladimir Putin outside the Kremlin and waved a banner out the window that read, "Putin Quit Your Job!"
: But the prosecution of the political activists is part of a wider government crackdown on the National Bolsheviks, a party with ultranationalist roots that claims to have fashioned itself into a force for democratic change and economic justice, including redistribution of wealth.
: The National Bolsheviks, whose name recalls the revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin, who founded the Soviet Union, were banned in June by a Moscow court. Party lawyers said that was the first time a political party had been outlawed in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The court held that the National Bolsheviks were intent on "a forceful change of the foundations of the constitutional regime.""
: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002486682_bolsheviks11.html?syndication=rss&source=seattletimes.xml&items=163