All Posts Tagged With: "Strategy 31"
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
More Russians See a Cult of Personality Around Putin
New poll results from the Levada Center show that more and more Russian citizens are noticing a growing cult of personality around Vladimir Putin – and that a majority of the country still favors his total concentration of power.
Jul 10, 2010 | Continued
Strategy 31 Organizers Turn Down Gov’t Proposal
A government proposal “to save face” that would allow Strategy 31 rallies to be held at two alternating locations in Moscow has been turned down by opposition organizers.
Jun 16, 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
Ekho Moskvy Editor Proposes Political Rally Ban
Ekho Moskvy radio Editor-in-Chief Aleksei Venediktov says that both pro- and anti-government events should be banned from being held on Moscow’s Triumfalnaya Square for a year.
Jun 8, 2010 | Continued
Lukin: Constitution Says Rallies Don’t Need Gov’t Sanction
The Russian government is facing growing criticism over the brutal methods used by police to break up a rally in defense of free assembly in Moscow on Monday.
Jun 2, 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
Putin Makes Heavily Qualified Defense of Right to Protest
Vladimir Putin has at once called on Russia’s local governments to grant oppositionists their right to protest and assured all parties involved that he has no way of ensuring that this could actually happen.
May 31, 2010 | Continued
Moscow Refuses to Sanction ‘Strategy 31’ Rally, Again
The Moscow city authorities have refused to sanction an opposition rally in defense of the constitutional right to the freedom of assembly for the ninth time in a row.
May 19, 2010 | Continued
‘Strategy 31’ Organizers Want Moscow Authorities Investigated
Organizers of the Strategy 31 rallies are asking the Prosecutor General to look into whether the Moscow mayor’s office attempted to intentionally provoke conflict between opposition protesters and radical pro-Kremlin youth activists.
May 11, 2010 | Continued