Five Reasons Putin has Lost the Younger Generation in #Russia
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2017/04/five
Who needs state TV? Young Russians get their info from YouTube, social media --- and it's a very different message
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39459039#
Five Reasons Putin has Lost the Younger Generation in #Russia
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2017/04/five
In #Samara, #Russia, up to 2,000 pensioners joined a #protest rally against social benefits cuts:
http://progorodsamara.ru/news/view/191531#
"Around 6% of students and school children in Russian protests. Very young are free now, due to RU law" - @okhotin
https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/the-sunday-show-02042017#
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-02-2017 at 07:01 PM.
In #Novosibirsk, #Russia, about 400 residents joined anti-#corruption #protest today, despite some bad weather:
http://www.interfax.ru/russia/556427
Putin is supposed to be in St Petersburg where possibly two bombs has just gone off in the Metro. There appears to be many people injured and potentially killed passengers......
Strelna is St.Petersburg suburb, Putin at summit 16kms to explosion site
BREAKING: Casualties are reported after an explosion on a train on the Metro in #SaintPetersburg
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...-metro-train/#
BREAKING: At least 10 dead in explosion in underground station in Russian city of St Petersburg more than 50 wounded being also reported
Some of those injured in today's explosions in the St. Petersburg subway are reportedly children.
Footage from St. Petersburg subway explosion. YouTube uploader openly calls it a terrorist attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...v=aV5rQyqdAn8#
Signs that devices were filled with shrapnel.
Another St.Petersburg station was closed "due suspicious package" 10 mins before
https://russia.liveuamap.com/en/2017...rg-was-closed#
pic.twitter.com/842kH8TfAu
So three stations targeted, two of them major hubs
One alleged ISIS cell, supposedly all Central Asians, was said to be planning attacks on Moscow/St. Petersburg
http://www.interfax.ru/russia/547764
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-03-2017 at 01:20 PM.
All metro stations in St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city, now closed.
No traces of heavy soot in St #Petersburg metro explosion(s), so seem it had a good oxygen balance. Small hexogen (RDX) load w/ fragments?
Rumors swirl around 200-300 grams of high explosives...
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-03-2017 at 01:33 PM.
The Moscow Times
✔ @MoscowTimes Police disarmed a 2nd bomb at another subway station. It was reportedly packed with 1kg of TNT—5x more than the bomb that did explode today.
CIT (en) @CITeam_en
Based on the photo, a fire extinguisher was stuffed with explosives, bearing balls served as shrapnel
https://twitter.com/CITeam_en/status/848908301630926848 …
Russia|n media claim they have a photo of the alleged perpetrator of #StPetersburgMetro attack:
https://republic.ru/posts/81444
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-03-2017 at 04:42 PM.
The Unsolved Mystery Behind the Act of Terror That Brought Putin to Power
http://bit.ly/2blbq05
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-03-2017 at 04:54 PM.
12 months ago, #Russia blamed the #EU's policy for the Brussels attacks ...
http://www.rferl.org/a/brussels-atta.../27628919.html …
Already some blaming "democracy," the protests, Navalny.
Others suspect FSB/Putin.
Distrust rampant in corrupt regime.
By Putin's own admission minimum 4,000 Russian nationals have gone to Syria. Reasonable that some have returned to strike back.
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 04-03-2017 at 05:29 PM.
Russian TV talking heads not yet willing to rule out Ukrainian special forces as culprits behind subway bombing.
Moscow has chosen sides in a sectarian conflict abroad — and that can lead to tragedy at home
http://politi.co/2nAARwE
Putin and Lukashenko emerge from hours of meetings in St Petersburg, and Putin opens by talking about gas deals, not the metro bomb...
Have been long stretches with DAILY attacks, mostly bombings, including suicides.
But Russia & world like to pretend Caucasus is alien land.
New long-haul truckers’ strike may be most important action yet, Klyamkin#says
http://euromaidanpress.com/2017/04/0...maidan-press/#
Chechnya – a bigger threat to Russia now than it was in the 1990s, Moscow paper#suggests
http://euromaidanpress.com/2017/04/0...maidan-press/#
Putin signed decree of exempting people under Western sanctions paying taxes.
BUT WAIT....those Russians who are individually under US/EU sanctions are the poorest in Russia?????
Reports in Kyrgyzstan say security services there confirming St. Petersrburg attack was Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen
http://zanoza.kg/doc/355174_gknb:_vz...gyzstana.html#
Global Voices @globalvoices
Russian Lawmakers Want to Ban Kids From Social Media, Require ‘Real Name’ Registration
http://buff.ly/2p2H9p3
#
"fines up to 300,000 rubles"
Bookmarks