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| Subject: Thousands of serfs protest in Moscow against the ‘isolation’ of the Russian Internet Tue Mar 12, 2019 8:35 pm | |
| Over the weekend, Russia’s Libertarian Party staged a public demonstration at Sakharov Prospect in Moscow in support of Internet freedom, as two controversial bills outlawing “fake news” and “insults against state officials” make their way through Parliament. According to monitors from “White Counter,” 15,200 people attended the event. (As usual, the estimate from police was smaller: 6,500 people.) Law enforcement detained more than a dozen demonstrators before the rally even began, including eight activists carrying armfuls of blue balloons, which the authorities seized as “unmanned aerial vehicles.” By the end of the day, 28 people had been detained. Similar demonstrations also took place on March 10 in other cities across the country.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/03/12/we-ve-got-no-alternative-but-our-hatred |
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