Hi, Bill Mcgarrity!
I read your message from 15.06.2017 09:22

  ak>> statement. Yes, Navalny has got 30 days term for organizing
  ak>> the unauthorized rally in Moscow. Yes, it is likely against
  ak>> some democratic
  BM> He never even got out of his house and was arrested?

Yes. He was arrested for the unauthorized meeting organization.

  ak>> values, cherished in the West. But mention, that the police
  ak>> didn't disperse the crowd using buttons, tear gas or water
  ak>> cannons as it often happen during unrests in European
  ak>> cities. I saw myself that the people
  BM>
  BM> Oh, I disagree from what I saw. The reportedly 1,500 poeple who
  BM> were detained certainly didn't have a walk in the park when
  BM> they were arrested. Batons and night sticks were certainly used
  BM> as most of the police were dressed in riot gear.

The police is always in the riot gear -- it is not a aggravating thing. 
They took people, they suspected as the meeting participants, and 
carried them away to the buses. There weren't clashes with the police. 
All the detained people were freed after examination records, and they 
probably will get fines for participating.

The photos from the scene could be more bright of course. It is a 
specific for any photography. If a photographer wants it he can do a 
photo for a pornographic journal by picking cute frames from Greco-Roman 
wrestling.

  ak>> who were detained in Moscow made selfies inside the police
  ak>> buses and even smiled. I don't justify the authority at all.
  BM>
  BM> I'm sure your state run TV made light of it with smiling
  BM> selfies....

No, the state TV didn't show  Navalny's meeting. But all the Russians 
could see it watching Euronews, the channel that can see all the people 
in Russia.

Bye, Bill!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.fidonews 2017

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