Putin's Russia...

[Rockhopper]

A look behind the scenes of how Putin is running Russia.

Eng subtitled. 16-year-old Masha Drokova, a Nashi commissar and spokesperson, is an ambitious middle-class student from the outskirts of Moscow. After joining Nashi at the age of 15, she moves to the very top of the organization, and is rewarded for her dedication with a university scholarship, an apartment, and even a pro-Putin talk show.

Everything changes when Drokova becomes acquainted with a group of liberal journalists, including popular anti-Putin reporter Oleg Kashin. At first, she remains devoted to Nashi while pursuing tentative friendships with its left-wing critics — but when Kashin is brutally beaten by "unknown perpetrators," she has a genuine change of heart and decides to take a stand.

The Nashi are Putin's Brownshirts who are passionately so anti-Fascist that they have become Fascists themselves.

Tim.

[Lenzabi]

Paints a very interesting and disturbing picture of p[resent Russia

[IceWendigo]

I don't have the time to watch that video but you guys must realize that the US State Department is most probably fostering groups to act as catalyst and as cover for a Nato backed coup d'etat in Russia, like the various color revolution, with hordes of clueless social media followers dancing forward to the piper and so on. The only reason Russia and Putin get media attention instead of Saudi Arabia and the monarchy, is that Putin is not a pawn of Nato and Russia is targeted for Regime change. If the Saudis were to ask China for protection and to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization there would be non stop reports and outcries about Saudi trampling human rights, torture, non democratic, anti-gay, support for terrorism, etc etc.

[Monk (in hiding)]

[Kaere]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-fighter-jets-intercept-russian-bombers-in-arctic-1.2772440

They do say it's not a new event... so it makes me wonder why they want to report it then? Sorry *smacks forehead* silly question... /sarcasm

[Mordae]

I don't have the time to watch that video but you guys must realize that the US State Department is most probably fostering groups to act as catalyst and as cover for a Nato backed coup d'etat in Russia, like the various color revolution, with hordes of clueless social media followers dancing forward to the piper and so on. The only reason Russia and Putin get media attention instead of Saudi Arabia and the monarchy, is that Putin is not a pawn of Nato and Russia is targeted for Regime change. If the Saudis were to ask China for protection and to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization there would be non stop reports and outcries about Saudi trampling human rights, torture, non democratic, anti-gay,  support for terrorism, etc etc.

Have to agree here. Bahrain and Egypt use the same tactics as the OP to keep control and little, if anything, hits the news here, just business as usual.

To put it in another light, ISIL behead a couple of westeners and suddenly the West is on a rampage (if they'd wanted to do it because ISIL are committing genocide throughout the region, fair enough. Fact is, they only got really antsy after the first decapitation). The Saudi's have beheaded 20 people since August (one for 'sorcery') and get military aid.

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