All Posts Tagged With: "Boris Nemtsov"
Report Critical of Putin Reaches Wide Audience
A new survey indicates that a Putin-critical report by opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov has already been read by as many as two million Russian citizens.
Jul 29, 2010 | Continued
Kremlin Proposes to Allow ‘Strategy 31’ if Opposition Splits
Russian opposition leaders have shot down a Kremlin proposal that would give official sanction to the Strategy 31 rallies if they excluded Eduard Limonov.
Jul 14, 2010 | Continued
No Extremism Found in ‘Putin. Results. 10 Years’
An anti-Putin report has been officially declared to be free of extremism, and opposition leaders distributing the report have been given authorization to get back 100,000 confiscated copies of the document.
Jul 2, 2010 | Continued
Anti-Putin Report Will Be Distributed ‘All Over Country’
Opposition leaders succeeded in handing out 2000 samizdat copies of ‘Putin. Results. 10 Years’ in St. Petersburg despite the fact that police had already confiscated 200 thousand copies of the controversial report.
Jun 21, 2010 | Continued
FSB, Police Seize 200 Thousand Copies of Anti-Putin Report
Of the million copies of “Putin. Results. 10 Years” printed by the opposition movement Solidarity, police and Federal Security Service officers have now seized a full one-fifth and subjected the documents to review for extremism.
Jun 17, 2010 | Continued
Accidental ‘Strategy 31’ Participant Sentenced to 2.5 Years Confinement
A Russian man who tried to defend an elderly woman whom he saw being manhandled by police at an opposition rally has been sentenced to two and a half years in a penal colony.
Jun 9, 2010 | Continued
Police Detain 170 at Freedom of Assembly Rally
Police detained as many as 170 protesters in Moscow during a rally in defense of the constitutional right to the freedom of assembly, many of whom were beaten and at least two of whom were hospitalized.
Jun 1, 2010 | Continued
Evicted Sochi Residents Go on Hunger Strike
Residents in Sochi who are being forcibly evicted from their homes to make way for Olympic construction are going on hunger strike to protest a lack of fair compensation for their property by the local government.
May 20, 2010 | Continued
Thousands of Russians Turn Out for May Day Rallies
Thousands of Russians held protests and marches throughout the country on Saturday during May Day celebrations. A number of opposition leaders were detained and some rallies were banned outright.
May 3, 2010 | Continued
The Moscow Times on Nashi’s Fifth Anniversary
The radical pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi held its fifth anniversary celebration yesterday, with government leaders present to urge them to “remain in the fight.”
Apr 16, 2010 | Continued