All Posts Tagged With: "Nashi"
Nashi Activist: We Snooped on Opposition Groups
The Moscow Times reports that pro-Kremlin agents worked in opposition groups across Russia to provide the presidential administration with information on opposition activists.
Feb 5, 2009 | ContinuedThousands March in Anti-US Protest in Moscow
The Kremlin-backed Nashi youth movement staged a mass protest criticizing the United States on Sunday. Attendance estimates range from 3 to 20 thousand.
Nov 3, 2008 | ContinuedPranksters Slander Kommersant Newspaper
Unknown pranksters have changed all the toilet paper in Russia’s lower house of Parliament with rolls that bear the logo of the Kommersant newspaper. Analysts see it as a provocation, and believe that the pro-Kremlin Nashi youth group may be responsible.
Mar 7, 2008 | ContinuedKasparov Sues Nashi Youth Movement
On Friday, Garry Kasparov filed a civil suit against the Nashi pro-Kremlin youth group. Some of the group’s literature had described him as “a citizen of the United States,” and said that the goals of the Russian opposition were “to ransack Russia’s national wealth for the interests of the USA.”
Feb 16, 2008 | ContinuedKremlin Slims Down Nashi Youth Movement
The Nashi (Ours) youth movement, a nationalist and pro-Kremlin organization, is cutting back on its operations, and closing many of its offices. Experts believe the Kremlin simply has no further urgent need of the frequently violent, militaristic youth army.
Jan 30, 2008 | ContinuedNashi Democracy
In what might be considered a warm-up for the March 08 Russian presidential elections, the Kremlin-backed “Nashi” youth group held a leadership election at its summer camp last week. Other camp activities included games ridiculing Russian pro-democracy leaders and an air show with Su-27 military jets that cost an estimated $200,000. The Kremlin’s favorites parade [...]
Aug 5, 2007 | ContinuedFascism Spreads in Russia
Despite the Putin administration’s best efforts to portray the opposition, Other Russia members included, as fascists and extremists, it has becoming increasingly clear that fascism is in the eye of the beholder — and sponsored by the government. In the New Statesman, Gavin Knight discusses the Kremlin’s intimidation domestically and abroad while allowing the [...]
Jul 25, 2007 | ContinuedMore on Nashi
Close on the heels of a similarly-themed item in its sister paper, the IHT, today the NY Times has a piece by Steven Lee Myers on the Nashi Putin youth cult. The western media is finally taking an interest in peeling back the iron veil of the Putin regime. When our Dissenters’ Marches began last [...]
Jul 7, 2007 | ContinuedInside the Putin Youth Cult
Michael Hammerschlag has an insightful item called “Putin’s Children” on the Kremlin-funded Nashi youth group in the International Herald Tribune.
The 120,000-odd Putin Youth members are perhaps the most creepy demonstration of Putin’s “Back to the Future” cult of personality - youth groups created, supported, and used by the Kremlin to harass, bully and intimidate opponents [...]
DoS, Nashi, More Illegal Confiscations
More hacker DoS (denial of service) attacks took place against Russian political opposition sites. This time the entire LiveJournal.ru, the most popular blogging site in Russian, was brought down by attacks against the National Bolshevik Party site that is hosted there. Namarsh.ru was also hit again.
In our internal review and discussion of the Voronezh March [...]
Jun 1, 2007 | Continued
