Monday, February 24, 2014

Olympics Over – Repression Underway



Today in Moscow the police arrested Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, anti-corruption activist Alexander Navalny, and many others. They were rallying to protest the jail sentences handed out this weekend to participants in the 2012 anti-Putin protests in Moscow. Apparently there were similar protests and arrests in St. Petersburg. So far there are few details, but many of the protesters carried signs referring to Maidan, where Ukrainians successfully overthrew their president last week.
The cover of today's Polish Newsweek