Is there any sort of public outcry in Russia against the invasion of Crimea?

[Gravitycollapse]

I haven't heard a peep so far.

[BainsBane]

1. There were some protests in Moscow

Someone posted about them.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. Protesters against government action in Russia tend to get the beat down and quickly

Are herded away to be jailed. The optics of those protests don't fit well with Putin's carefully crafted propaganda.

[Warpy]

4. Gee, that sounds awfully familiar.

[DireStrike]

6. So uncivilized. Here, we just give the protests no airtime or media coverage.

It's like they didn't happen at all!

[Warpy]

7. Did you miss drenching them in pepper spray

firing tear gas canisters at their heads, sending in fully militarized police followed by front end loaders and garbage trucks for all the belongings?

Putin's an amateur at this stuff.

[DireStrike]

8. Oh, but we so rarely have a good protest like OWS

The Iraq war protests and the RNC protests were many times bigger than OWS and ignored completely. There was a little roughhousing, like when they arrested Amy Goodman.

But a few thousand people decide to shut down the Brooklyn bridge and suddenly the full force of the police state is mobilized. Who knew all you had to do was disrupt traffic? Apparently nobody got the message though, these new protests are pretty tame.

Or more likely, nobody wants to be shot in the head with a tear gas canister and arrested. I for one can't wait till they try those sonic crowd dispersal weapons! Immobilization foam! Microwave pain rays! What a time to be alive.

[1000words]

3. Not going to hear much, if there is any kind of anti-war movement.

Just like here in the "land of the free."

[LiberalEsto]

5. Anti-War Protesters Detained In Red Square

Posted March 2, 2014 at 7:40am EST
Alan White BuzzFeed Staff



"Around 300 anti-war protesters took to the streets of Moscow in the last few hours.

They were protesting Russia’s build up of forces in the Crimea.

The action has lead to a full military mobilisation by Ukraine, with acting President Olexander Turchynov ordering the closure of airspace to all non-civilian aircraft. US President Barack Obama described Russia’s troop deployments as a “violation of Ukrainian sovereignty”."

Link:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/anti-war-protesters-detained-in-red-square