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| Subject: Russian statist idiots: Toys rejected because they have been deemed not to be ''citizens of Russia'' Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:08 am | |
| There hadn't been any rallies like it before in Russia. Last month there were dozens of toys, from teddy bears to Lego figurines, standing in the snow of a Siberian city with banners complaining about corruption and electoral malpractice.
At the time, authorities in Barnaul declared the protest ''an unsanctioned public event''.
Now a petition to hold another protest with 100 Kinder Surprise toys, 100 Lego people, 20 model soldiers, 15 soft toys and 10 toy cars has been rejected because the toys have been deemed not to be ''citizens of Russia''.
''As you understand, toys, especially imported toys, are not only not citizens of Russia but they are not even people,'' Andrei Lyapunov, a spokesman for Barnaul, said.
At the last rally, baffled police did not know what to do with the toys, which held up banners with the words: ''I'm for clean elections,'' and ''A thief should sit in jail, not in the Kremlin.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/strangebuttrue/baffled-russians-ban-unruly-toys-20120216-1tbqp.html#ixzz1mcXSFohX
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