Posted on 02/21/2019 10:58:46 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
A military course for schoolchildren taught youngsters how to disperse street protests in Russia’s fourth largest city of Yekaterinburg, local media reported.
Researchers registered at least 1,000 more protests in 2018 than in previous years as Russians took to the streets over pension age hikes, rising gas prices and other issues. Activists face a range of hurdles organizing and holding these events, including difficulties with obtaining approval and being subjected to intimidation tactics, researchers found.
A patriotic course in Yekaterinburg staged a live demonstration with men armed with sticks and Molotov cocktails playing violent protesters, the 66.ru news site reported Thursday.
“The leader of the uprising was tied up after a brief confrontation,”...“The other participants fled.”
After completing the course, the kids took an oath and were accepted into the Yunarmiya, a patriotic youth organization sponsored by the Defense Ministry.
Photographs showed a dozen children watching the standoff between the masked protesters and uniformed men in military police attire in the snow.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
A little reminder that Yekaterinburg is where the Romanovs met their tragic fate.
Disperse can mean to break up and dissolve, or it can mean to carry and spread around. I think the author means the latter.
It’s Russia. They call their strong man dictators different things (Tsar, Chairman. President). But at the end of the day the result is the same.
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In America, schoolkids went to protest NRA and push federal gun ban.
On top of suppressing free speech and protests, Russia has strict gun control.
Russia has strict gun control.
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Good. just like Britain and Australia.
And Russia schoolkids haven’t been taught how beautiful the LGBTQ is.
suppressing free speech?
Yes. The government also has a thing against Protestants and Evangelicals.
Yes. The government also has a thing against Protestants and Evangelicals.
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You mean America’s loyal ally, Saudi Arabia?
Actually both Russia and China are trying to take Saudi Arabia from our orbit.
LOL..it just never ends with the Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg fan club here.
I disagree with your interpretation. While the alternate meaning of disperse is to spread around, it means to spread so thinly that it evaporates.
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