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Originally Posted by Dmitry Markov
There were Casparov's guys along with "Nazional-Bolsheviks" of Limonov (never heard of him?) - about 500 total (population of Moscow is 10 500 000 officialy so you see how "strong" their movement is). There were about 1500 Policemen (OMON mostly). And even more photographers. Well, those "march" guys were crying something for some time,
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But what was the
something they were shouting? It might be important to know!
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Originally Posted by Dmitry Markov
As for making elections a farce... Well it really was a farce but not because Putin has suppressed the opposition. The fact is there is no opposition in Russia that has a platform and which is capable of getting support from the people.
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But thats exactly what I am saying. The opposition gets suppressed already before it can act as opposition - they get no platform, they get no space in the media, they are prevented from participating in the elections, their demonstrations are dissolved before people like you can understand what they are shouting, they get accused of supporting the chechnian terrorists and some of them fall ill with lead poisoning.
Besides there was a Breshnev joke that went like: "No, in the USSR there is no opposition. Do you see any?"