40 Protesters Seize a Kremlin Office (call for Putin's resignation)

[Dover]

Moderator please PM me and let me know how this story relates to the one you have lumped it with (in the previously locked post under the same heading)? As far as I can tell they are two very different stories, and I'd like to hear discussion of this latest important development in Moscow.


40 Protesters Seize a Kremlin Office

The Moscow Times

AP


About 40 members of the radical National Bolshevik Party seized a presidential administration office just off Red Square on Tuesday and demanded that President Vladimir Putin resign, a police spokeswoman said.

Federal Guard Service officers and riot police broke down the door of the office on the first floor of the building at 21 Ulitsa Ilyinka and detained 39 people, said the spokeswoman, Yelena Persilova.

The protesters managed to hold the room -- a presidential administration directory information service -- for 35 minutes, the Interfax and Regnum news agencies reported.

"This is a political action protesting the rigging of recent elections, the passage of a law replacing benefits with cash payments and other political steps taken by the government," said National Bolshevik Party spokesman Alexander Averin, Interfax reported...cont'd

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2004/12/15/012.html

[Just Me]

1. Oh,...my,...some really crazy stuff going on up there.

Geez. Wouldn't it be incredible if something like that happened here,...to overthrow our own coup?

WOW!!! I am enchanted by such a dream.

[havocmom]

2. When you use the word "overthorw" on the DU, remember to say:

Hi Agent Mike! :hi:

[Earth_First]

3. LOL

:hi:

[Just Me]

4. Oh. Yes. Sorry Agent Mike!!!

:hi:

Didn't mean to ignore ya'. :bounce:

[Liberty Belle]

5. Wow. Wish that would work here.

[Lizzie Borden]

6. In Russia there's a history...

of people getting into the Kremlin and putting other people in power. It goes way back, in fact Peter the Great hid in a closet as a child, and watched a crowd kill his family. These people are probably going to "disappear" as per usual.

[Chicago Democrat]

7. Excellent reporting Comrade!

Viva La Revolucion!

Patria ou Muerte!

[Aunt Anti-bush]

8. "protesting the rigging of recent elections"???

I have two questions here.

First, other countries are not afraid to protest thier 'rigging of recent elections' but we're not protesting in the streets? WHY the heck not??? We should hold the million disenfranchised-voter march on Washington or something right now!

Second, and this may be tin foil hat thinking, but what is up with all of the 'rigging of recent elections'? Could this be something bigger than just one or two countries having problems with their elections? Doesn't anyone else think that it is just a little over-coincidental that these so called 'rigging' problems are popping up all over the globe?

:tinfoilhat:

[Igel]

9. Hmmm... another report presents it differently.

But they don't quote the spokesman, they quote the protesters: "We're here to talk".

They unfurled banners and chanted "No to czarism", "Free the political prisoners" and "We'll teach you to love the constitution".

http://www.kp.ru/daily/23423/35118/ (It's in Russian)

Apparently they locked themselves into the administrator's office. One demand was releasing political prisoners; I assume they're people arrested and still held from Aug. 2, when another group of National Bolsheviks took over a Ministry of Health building. That time they used some nail-gun sort of thing to seal the door.

The occasion was their national conference.

"National Bolshevik". Now *there's* a party name you gotta love. /sarcasm off