26.12.11

Moscow for fair elections

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Мы не немы - We’re not dumb.
Clever sign showing how much protest and political activism ARE closely related to making things easy to understand and to remember. And, which is more important, showing how much Russians these days have definitely got this.
Protest just works. Where in the world would anyone have figured out to be able to bring let’s say only 50 thousand people to the street? With –5?
That being said we will see how this goes on. One thing I found interesting was in the speech by Aleksey Navalnyj, recently released from jail, that went like this:
“We are thousands. We could take the Kremlin and the White House right away. But we don’t want to do this, because we are a peaceful force. So far.”
Needless to say, things get easily complicated in that country.
And this is much more interesting than Italian politics, and much more worth to follow than the agony we are facing.