Putin enemy of Russia?

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Is Putin an enemy of Russia? Consider this in downtown Moscow;





Or this;



Or this photo from Grozny, where many Russians died to save the Caucasus from becoming an Islamic Emirate;

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This is the real Russia, the battle of Kulikovo against the Moslem Mongol 'Golden Horde';




And the Orthodox Warrior Prince and Saint who fought that battle, st. Dimitri Donskoi;




Glory to the Real and Holy Russia, the Martyr to the Red Dragon and the Third and final Orthodox Rome till 1917, the opening of the age of Antichrist!

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Older but interesting article about traditional Orthodox dissent against Putin;

MANSUR MIROVALEV April 29, 2012 12:01 PM




MOSCOW (AP) — An opposition activist was detained and beaten Sunday after he tried to enter Moscow's landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral to pray to deliver Russia from Vladimir Putin.
Several riot police officers forced Roman Dobrokhotov into a police car just meters (feet) from Russia's largest church, widely seen as a symbol of resurgent Orthodox Christianity after seven decades of atheist Communist rule. Dobrokhotov, who leads a small anti-Kremlin youth movement, heckled President Dmitry Medvedev during his speech in the Kremlin in 2008.
Another activist, Mariya Baronova, of the Resistance anti-Kremlin group, entered the cathedral, but was cornered by a group of Orthodox priests and men who tried to escort her out.
A dozen activists from the militant Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers group lined up in front of the cathedral, shouting obscenities at Dobrokhotov and Baronova. The group is known for dispersing gay rallies, and for protesting against pop star Madonna's shows in Russia and burning Harry Potter books.
Hours later, when Dobrokhotov was leaving a police station where he was held, seven men assaulted him, damaging his ear, he said.
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Police officers detain an opposition activist near the Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in Mosco …

"They looked like soccer fans," he told The Associated Press, referring to burly and aggressive young men who are often involved in street fights and violence after soccer matches across Russia. "Luckily, police interrupted them and detained one of them."
Opposition leaders have long claimed that pro-Kremlin youth movements hire soccer fans to disperse anti-Kremlin rallies and beat up government critics.
The anti-Putin prayer followed a February prank by a feminist punk rock band.
Three members of the Pussy Riot band face up to seven years in jail for their February anti-Putin prayer at the cathedral. Their treatment provoked a public outcry and contributed to growing criticism of the church, a powerful institution with close ties to the Kremlin.
Russian Patriarch Kirill has described the punk performance as blasphemous, and part of a broader attack on the church. The patriarch has joined the Kremlin in portraying the recent wave of protests against Putin as a threat to Russian statehood.
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Opposition protests drew tens of thousands onto the streets of Moscow in the months head of the March presidential election that gave Putin, currently serving as prime minister, a third presidential term. Putin's inauguration is set for May 7.

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More evidence? Would a nationalist Russia allow this kind of problem?;

1,200 migrants detained in warehouse raid following violent Moscow riot

Published time: October 14, 2013 10:01
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The aftermath of mass riots near the Biryulyovo-Tovarnaya train station (RIA Novosti/Andrey Stenin)



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Moscow authorities have closed a vegetable warehouse and detained 1,200 people after a violent Sunday protest in Moscow’s residential area of Biryulyovo, where a young Russian was allegedly stabbed to death by a migrant last week.
A car with money and weapons has been found as Moscow police raided a warehouse which locals call the main attraction for migrants. On Sunday it turned into the scene of a mass anti-migrant protest, which ended with nearly 400 arrests.

Police conducts mass detention during a raid at a vegetable warehouse in Zapadnoye Biryulyovo. (RIA Novosti/Grigoriy Sisoev)

A crowd of locals took to the streets in response for the fatal stabbing of a young Muscovite, which is now being blamed on a migrant. They now say the killing of a 25-year-old Russian was merely the last straw.

Moscow nationalists and football fans were quick to use the situation to also take part in the protests. Initial gathering of locals was then supported by clearly anti-migrant attuned groups of people.

It appeared that locals have been calling on Moscow authorities to check the warehouse and relocate it to the outside of the city. As it is just 1km from the living area, people mainly complained about late hour work activity, noise from trucks, high levels of criminality and numerous migrants who rent apartments in the area. Dozens live in each apartment at the same time. Residents say to meet a Slavic-looking man after midnight is nearly impossible.

But authorities’ reply was diplomatic and short: “[Pokrovskaya] warehouse is a strategic object of food supplies for Moscow and, hence, the transfer is impossible.”
Those supplies are mainly coming from Russia’s Republic of Dagestan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan and other neighboring CIS states.

According to Magomed Tolboev, an honorary president of a company which manages the warehouse, with closing Pokrovskaya, Moscow may lose more than 5 percent of all food supplies.

“You cannot close it. You just keep it in order. Now let the police be responsible for [the suspect],” Tolboev told RSN radio station.

In his opinion, responsibility for what is happening lies on corrupt local authorities and law enforcement.

“This whole situation is to blame on corrupt practices of municipality leaders, administration and so on, who cover all this. They need to ask themselves why they give migrants nationality and a work permit without due process. We cannot look after thousands of people,” he said.

Now there are informally three main demands. First of all people want the young man’s killer to be found and prosecuted. Next, for the warehouse to be closed and heads of regional administration and police department to be sacked. They suspect the latter of running a protection racket involving the migrants.
Another hot spot in Sunday’s rally was a shopping mall. Protesters destroyed it first, after unsuccessful attempts to try reaching authorities.

Some now say the reason why a crowd of 300 people decided to attack it is that the mall is an “enclave” of migrants, where they not only trade, but also hide from authorities.
Reuters reported that another 450 were detained in northeastern Moscow, also near a vegetables market employing migrant workers. However Russian media reported that only 80 people were detained and the Russian Interior Ministry said that there was no connection with the Biryulyovo raid.


Police conducts mass detention during a raid at a vegetable warehouse in Zapadnoye Biryulyovo. (RIA Novosti/Grigoriy Sisoev)

For the last few years, people say, the situation in the area has remained tense because migrants are not polite to local residents.
“Are they guests? We are guests here and they are locals,” a woman from one of the apartment buildings in the area told the media.
The first witness accounts given by a girlfriend of killed Muscovite Egor Shcherbakov also assert that the attacker, whom she described as a male native of the Caucasus, approached them first and tried to harass her. As her boyfriend moved to protect her, the man stabbed Egor in the heart.

The attacker managed to escape. Moscow police still do not know his whereabouts. A 1-million-ruble (around US$31,000) bounty has been placed for the capture of the suspect.
Several suspects in the murder of Egor Shcherbakov have been detained, Moscow police chief Anatoly Yakunin said. He added that witnesses would be able to identify the suspects, and that the investigation is ongoing.


Flowers brought by residents of Zapadnoye Biryulyovo to the site of the murder of 25-year-old Moscowite Yegor Shcherbakov. (RIA Novosti/Grigoriy Sisoev)

Meanwhile, the Russian Migrants Federation has urged ethnic minority communities to remain on alert in the wake of disturbances of Biryulyovo.

"Attacks are likely in different parts of Moscow. Nationalists are in a very aggressive mood," Mukhammad Amin, the federation’s president, told Interfax, adding that migrants and foreign nationals should “stay away from public places."

Amin said he was in Biryulyovo and described the situation there as “very dangerous.”

“I could see hundreds of drunk young men and many nationalists," he said.


Aftermath of disturbances in Moscow's Biryulevo district. (RIA Novosti/Anton Denisov)





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Putin celebrates birthday with ‘Chinese friends’ and vodka

by RIA Novosti at 08/10/2013 18:38
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he celebrated his 61st birthday a day earlier with a shot of vodka with the Chinese president and that he saved a bottle of sake from Japan’s prime minister for later.
Putin’s birthday, on October 7, coincided with his trip to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Indonesia. He told reporters that he enjoyed his birthday, even though he didn’t have much time to celebrate.
“How did we celebrate? We almost didn’t celebrate. We had a late meeting with the Chinese delegation. I offered our Chinese friends to raise a vodka shot for the occasion,” Putin told reporters on Tuesday. “They didn’t refuse,” he added.
The delegation, led by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, greeted Putin with a cake that they later ate together, the Russian president said. “It was very warm … and friendly,” Putin said.
When asked whether he had opened the bottle of sake presented to him by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Putin said he was planning to drink it in Moscow. He joked that he was glad he didn’t drink too much. “Thank God I can still control myself,” he said.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono surprised Putin by singing and strumming out “Happy Birthday” on a guitar when the Russian president attended an APEC luncheon with all 20 heads of state participating in the conference.