• Putin goes after Golos, the observer group that exposed vote-rigging in previous elections
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/9qix.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22083824[/url] [quote]Russian authorities have filed a legal case against an election watchdog, accusing it of failing to declare itself a "foreign agent". Golos collected and published evidence of alleged fraud in Russia's parliamentary poll just over a year ago, says the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow. Those claims of vote-rigging in favour of the party in power sparked mass protests in Moscow and other major cities. The Russian authorities were furious and accused NGOs like Golos of being fronts for foreign states seeking to destabilise Russia, our correspondent says.[/quote]
Under what foreign nation are they an agent of?
Russia looks like it's Soviet Union 2.0 in the making, imo.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40235659]Under what foreign nation are they an agent of?[/QUOTE] I assume the United States. [quote]Golos used to be partly funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), but that body ended its work in Russia last year on an order from the Russian authorities.[/quote]
The go-to excuse for dictators and authoritarian leaders always seems to be "muh sovereignty"
[QUOTE=smurfy;40235760]The go-to excuse for dictators and authoritarian leaders always seems to be "muh sovereignty"[/QUOTE] Nationalism will always be a strong tool to stir the masses
[QUOTE=GoldenDargon;40235698]Russia looks like it's Soviet Union 2.0 in the making, imo.[/QUOTE] It's looked that way for quite some time, actually.
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