Occupy Moscow - Occupy Protesters Denounce Putin's Election

Aerianne · May 11, 2012

Russia’s Anti-Putin Protesters Bring Occupy to Moscow

Thursday night, some 2,000 anti-Putin activists gathered at a three-day old camp at a square in downtown Moscow’s trendy Chistye Prudy neighborhood, holding impromptu debates, strumming guitars and swapping stories from the protests that have continued in one form or another since the eve of their arch nemesis’s return to the Kremlin on May 7.
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But last weekend, the largely peaceful protests suddenly turned violent as demonstrators and police fought pitched battles in Moscow on the eve of Putin’s inauguration for a third presidential term. Hundreds of activists then spent the next three days roaming through the capital’s squares and boulevards, before - amid unconfirmed rumors of rank and file police discontent over the mounting arrests - gathering at Chistye Prudy, around a statue of 19th century Kazakh poet-philosopher Abai Kunanbayev.
Police have so far made no move to detain activists, despite Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, vowing on Thursday that security forces would disperse the “illegal” camp. “All such camps share the same fate, all over the world,” he said, as reported by the Afisha website.
“They won’t close down the camp,” opposition leader Boris Nemtsov insisted in an interview with RIA Novosti. “They can’t jail us all after all.” “Putin is afraid of the protests,” he added. “He’s seen how the people reacted to his inauguration.”
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The camp will be soon equipped with electrical generators and WiFi, to the delight of activists who have used online resources to organize and offer a series of wry commentary on events. “Twitter is our leader,” an activist joked, as hipsters all around him stared into the glowing screens of their smart phones and laptops.
“The authorities thought that if they jailed Udaltsov and Navalny, then the people would stop standing up to them,” said Yashin. “But they were wrong. There’s no one person that they can imprison to stop this.”
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http://en.ria.ru/analysis/20120511/173395765.html

Livestream:http://occupystreams.org/item/occupy-moscow

aeliencactus · May 12, 2012

This is great!

andrew45 · May 12, 2012

Priviet Bolshevist .

midgardsun · May 12, 2012

Putin no friend of wall street bankers?

Koryssa_RUS · May 12, 2012

I was here, May 10th!

Photographs soon, when I return in Yakutsk. )))

Aerianne · May 12, 2012

Moscow --

Nearly 200 activists are camping out in central Moscow to protest the election of Vladimir Putin and the arrest of two opposition leaders.

Putin was Russia's president between 2000 and 2008, when he had to step down and assume the prime minister's post to avoid term limitations. On Monday, he was inaugurated as president for a six-year term.

Anti-Putin street protests in Moscow erupted on Sunday, and more than 400 people were arrested after the sanctioned rally turned into clashes between the demonstrators and riot police.

Since Monday, activists have been staging flash mobs across Moscow: suddenly assembling in public places, camping and staying there for the night. Two prominent opposition leaders, Alexei Navalny and Sergei Udaltsov, were detained Wednesday for disobeying police orders. The protesters have pledged to stay on the streets at least until both men are released.

Thursday marked the first night when police did not move to disperse or detain the protesters.

Activists on Friday were camping out around the monument of Abai, a prominent 19th-century Kazakh poet and philosopher - a random choice. They put up a notice board, announcing upcoming meetings and lectures about peaceful resistance. Some climbed up to the monument to clean it.

These round-the-clock protests, dubbed "Occupy Abai," are small compared to street rallies that attracted 100,000 people last winter, but they demonstrate defiance rarely seen in Russia.
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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/11/MNDM1OGPNO.DTL#ixzz1uehaYXsB

Aerianne · May 13, 2012

This section is for discussion of The Occupy Movement. The political discussion regarding Putin has been moved to the appropriate section: "Politics". I titled the thread "Alternative To Putin?".

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