
A Dissenter's march in Russia wouldn't be a Dissenter's march if it
didn't end in large-scale detentions.
Saturday night's march was no different, with up to 50 protesters allegedly held. Thanks to
la Russophobe, for highlighting this link to activist
Oleg Kozlovsky's English weblog, in which he recounts the details of his own arrest: In order to find a pretext to arrest participants of the action, members of Rossiya Molodaya (Young Russia), a Kremlin-aligned youth group (a part of the so-called Putinyouth), were used as provocateurs. They began lighting flares, chanting slogans and throwing leaflets (mocking the opposition) in the middle of the crowd. The police were ready: they arrested the Putinyouth and many regular ...
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