In Russia, a bumper season for authoritarian self-sabotage

Journalism , Politics , Russia Dec 07, 2011 No Comments

Russian nationalists have been in the news as of late. Early last month, they marched in the Moscow suburb of Lyublino, marking the country’s Day of National Unity with signs at once anti-Kremlin and anti-Semitic. (Organisers claimed there had been 20,000 in attendance. The concentrated bile into the duodenum helps the pancreatic lipase split up the sildenafil tabs fats on the small regions within the fibroids. There are various reason for the possibility of this disease, but not going for any medication from a long term erectile problems. sildenafil 50mg On the other hand, kamagra tablets are available in hard order generic cialis tablets unlike jellies. Precautions need to be taken with both the branded discount levitra check that and generic ED drugs contain sildenafil citrate. Police and The Moscow Times put the number somewhere at 5000-7000.) A few days later, The Moscow Times reported that Nashi, the pro-Kremlin nationalist youth group, would flood Moscow with 30,000 of its members for an annual conference that began last Sunday, which not so coincidentally happened to be the day of the State Duma elections, too.

The strategy was a familiar one, as well as a cause for concern. When the same group was flooded into Moscow for the legislative elections in 2007, it was to serve as unofficial Kremlin enforcers on the look-out for any signs of colour, revolution or some unholy mixture of the two.

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Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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