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For Russia’s Communists,
Ousting Putin Is a Priority

New York Times, by Yulia Taranova

Original Article

Posted By:PageTurner, 11/7/2009 4:27:02 PM

MOSCOW — Along with the perennial calls for “land for farmers” and “factories for workers,” Communists who marched in Moscow on the Saturday anniversary of the 1917 revolution offered a slogan of more recent vintage: “Russia without Putin.” As the Nov. 7 holiday approached, leaders of Russia’s Communist Party — with 13 percent of the electorate the country’s largest opposition faction — have made it clear that they prefer President Dmitri A. Medvedev to his

Comments:
Things are weird over there.


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Reply 1 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 11/7/2009 4:40:04 PM     (No. 6009319)

I think BHO ran for president of the wrong country....


 
 


Reply 2 - Posted by: Melody, 11/7/2009 4:49:08 PM     (No. 6009335)

I see Putin as Gog in the book of Ezekiel. Don't think they'll get rid of him.


Reply 3 - Posted by: fishmonger, 11/7/2009 5:08:12 PM     (No. 6009380)

I expect a major political earthquake in Russia before Bammy is voted out in 2012.

Snowball vs. Napoleon all over again.


Reply 4 - Posted by: scottc, 11/7/2009 5:31:56 PM     (No. 6009437)

Russian communists are wondering "Where is our Obama?"


Reply 5 - Posted by: Redgoose, 11/7/2009 5:56:30 PM     (No. 6009506)

These folks are tough. I don't know how outspoken I would want to be in opposing Putin...



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