The Russian Democracy Protests

[DTCwordfan]

Are on today.....Comments? Anyone here who has lived in Russia wanting to comment on their perspectives of how the great Motherland will develop?

With Putin Renannexation of Ukraine to get access to the Black Sea for example?


Reminds me of the following yarn:

Stalin's ghost appears to Putin in a dream, and Putin asks for his help running the country.

Stalin says, "Round up and shoot all the democrats, and then paint the inside of the Kremlin blue."

"Why blue?" Putin asks.

"Ha!" says Stalin. "I knew you wouldn't ask me about the first part."

[mike11111]

38 years ago, as a student, I spent a month in Minsk, capital of Belarus, then part of the USSR. I used to take great delight in tormenting my hosts by using pre-revolutionary language, always referring to Leningrad as St Petersburg, upon which I would be immediately corrected. This was the time that the dead hand of Brezhnev reigned supreme, only 6 years after the invasion of Czechoslovakia. At the time never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that in less than 20 years the USSR would cease to exist and that Leningrad would once again be renamed St Petersburg.

I think the best observation is that of Winston Churchill in 1939:

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."

[DTCwordfan]

Very true, mike, interesting perspective.....

[argorstran]

If you want news about Russia then go here :
http://www.itar-tass.com/en/
If ever Obama , Cameron , Sarkozy , Merkel etc. surpass Putin's 63% of the vote then feel free to post it on AB .

[deggers316]

i was in moscow in 1968 there were no beggars or small kids on the street begging for money it may have been corrupt then (ussr) but it's Mafia run now, Putin head man

[DTCwordfan]

Havent heard the radio today (the rugby being now on) and whether there has been any incidents in Moscow today, but it does come across as being a bit of an explosive box waiting to go up....and corrupt - I can't see Putin going out to correct that.