Vladimir Putin's 'Happy' 65th birthday

vostok

vostok

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More than 130 people have been arrested as supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny
hold protests in some 80 cities across Russia, reports say.

They are demanding he be allowed to stand in 2018 presidential elections.

Clashes and dozens of arrests have been reported in St Petersburg,

where the main protest is taking place.

The rallies coincide with President Vladimir Putin's 65th birthday. Most are unauthorised,

including those in Moscow and St Petersburg.

Mr Navalny is currently serving 20 days in jail for repeatedly violating a law on organising public meetings.

It is the third time this year that Mr Navalny has been jailed.

Russia's electoral authorities say he cannot stand in the March vote

because of a separate suspended sentence.

In recent months he has travelled across Russia in a bid to bolster his makeshift election campaign.


Mr Navalny had been due to attend the main rally taking place on Saturday evening in
St Petersburg, Mr Putin's home city.

Media reports say there were mass arrests at the protest, attended by as many as 3,000 people,

when a group of demonstrators tried to break through a police line.

Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported that about 100 people were detained.

Several other organisers of the rally and leaders of the pro-democracy group Open Russia - sponsored by

exiled former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky - were arrested in the city earlier on Saturday,

according to human rights website OVD-Info.

Meanwhile several people were arrested as hundreds rallied in Moscow's Pushkin Square,

though all were reportedly later released.

Protesters shouted "Russia will be free" and "Free Navalny".

Others called for Mr Putin not to stand in the election.


Police urged people to disperse but did not move to break up the rally. Some protesters
marched towards the Kremlin, but were blocked by police.

Elsewhere demonstrations ranged from a few dozen people to more than 100 in the

Siberian city of Novosibirsk.

Protest organisers were pre-emptively detained in Smolensk, Tver, Stavropol, Irkutsk, Yakutsk

and Perm, media reports say.

Participants were also reportedly arrested in Pskov, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Samara,

Izhevsk, Saratov and Yekaterinburg.

(http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41538256)
 
tampee

tampee

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Why so angry at Putin? Must be the fake news (propaganda) America is funding in Russia I remember seeing something about our government paying people to report fake news.

But happy birthday Putin legalize marijuana before the West gets too carried away with patents. :bigjoint:
 
st0wandgrow

st0wandgrow

Well-Known Member
vostok said:

More than 130 people have been arrested as supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny
hold protests in some 80 cities across Russia, reports say.

They are demanding he be allowed to stand in 2018 presidential elections.

Clashes and dozens of arrests have been reported in St Petersburg,

where the main protest is taking place.

The rallies coincide with President Vladimir Putin's 65th birthday. Most are unauthorised,

including those in Moscow and St Petersburg.

Mr Navalny is currently serving 20 days in jail for repeatedly violating a law on organising public meetings.

It is the third time this year that Mr Navalny has been jailed.

Russia's electoral authorities say he cannot stand in the March vote

because of a separate suspended sentence.

In recent months he has travelled across Russia in a bid to bolster his makeshift election campaign.


Mr Navalny had been due to attend the main rally taking place on Saturday evening in
St Petersburg, Mr Putin's home city.

Media reports say there were mass arrests at the protest, attended by as many as 3,000 people,

when a group of demonstrators tried to break through a police line.

Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported that about 100 people were detained.

Several other organisers of the rally and leaders of the pro-democracy group Open Russia - sponsored by

exiled former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky - were arrested in the city earlier on Saturday,

according to human rights website OVD-Info.

Meanwhile several people were arrested as hundreds rallied in Moscow's Pushkin Square,

though all were reportedly later released.

Protesters shouted "Russia will be free" and "Free Navalny".

Others called for Mr Putin not to stand in the election.


Police urged people to disperse but did not move to break up the rally. Some protesters
marched towards the Kremlin, but were blocked by police.

Elsewhere demonstrations ranged from a few dozen people to more than 100 in the

Siberian city of Novosibirsk.

Protest organisers were pre-emptively detained in Smolensk, Tver, Stavropol, Irkutsk, Yakutsk

and Perm, media reports say.

Participants were also reportedly arrested in Pskov, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Samara,

Izhevsk, Saratov and Yekaterinburg.

(http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41538256)
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Would you vote for Navalny if he were able to run for President?
 
vostok

vostok

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st0wandgrow said:
Would you vote for Navalny if he were able to run for President?
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Good question:
'Analysts described his policies as "populist", as well as nationalistic and isolationist,

and thus some have compared him to Donald Trump,

although Navalny himself does not think it is an accurate comparison.'

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny_presidential_campaign,_2018)

'we' have some distance to go before weed is legal, its may what pop up after even before him that interests me

Economy[edit]
One of Navalny's primary focuses during the campaign is improving the economy.[44] His more specific economic proposals include instituting a minimum wage,[45] lowering prices of apartments and reducing bureaucracy of home construction, making healthcare and education free, lowering taxes for many citizens, taxing the gains from privatization, decentralization of financial management and increase in local governance, increasing transparency in state-owned firms, implementing work visas for Central Asian migrants coming into the country for work, and increasing economic cooperation with western European states.[46][47] He also wants to collect higher taxes from oligarchs while lowering taxes on small-time entrepreneurs in order to lessen income inequality.[48]

Immigration[edit]
Navalny's policies have been described as anti-immigration and he has stated multiple times that he wants to introduce a visa regime with the Central Asian republics to register and reduce the number of workers coming to Russia.[6][47][48]

Foreign policy[edit]
The primary focus of Navalny's campaign is on domestic issues, although he has commented on foreign policy. He has state regarding the annexation of Crimea that a second "honest referendum" needs to be done to confirm the region's status,[9] and believes theWar in Donbass can be resolved by implementing the Minsk agreement.[47] He also has spoken against the Russian intervention in the Syrian Civil War, believing that there are internal problems that need to be dealt with rather than get involved in foreign wars.[6] In an interview with a reporter from The Guardian, Navalny summarized his position by saying "I tell them: 'OK great, so Putin is promising to rebuild Palmyra, but why don't you look at the roads in your city? What do you think the priority should be? Fixing the roads in Voronezh or Stavropol or rebuilding Palmyra? The Americans are loaded. Let them fix Palmyra, and we should concentrate on our own problems.'"[8]

Navalny has also stated that he considers Russia to be part of the Western world and does not support the Eurasianist ideology of some Russian government officials.[19] He said that Russia should become a leading country in Europe and Asia through cultural and economic might.[48]

Corruption[edit]
One of the main campaign themes is combating corruption in the Russian government. Navalny proposes to initiate criminal cases against government officials who cannot explain how they were able to acquire very luxurious items that seem too much for their paycheck, which should be identified by the press. He also intends to reform the police and judiciary of Russia to make them more independent.[48]

LGBT[edit]
In an interview with a reporter from RBC, Navalny said that he will repeal the gay propaganda law. He also spoke in support of legalization of same-sex partnership by region via referendums.[49]

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny_presidential_campaign,_2018)
 
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