Legitimacy of an illegitimate regime

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Originally Posted by Penguin

However the web is not the real world; there are some very real people in the very real Russia against Putin:

Oh absolutely. I'm following this just the same, I was just sort of hoping that people were already aware of these rallies and their suppression. Frankly they're better-publicized in the west than they are in Russia - not surprisingly, given the amount of state control over media there. There has been some scary stuff happening out there, both at rallies and otehrwise. A lot of arrests over the last few days.