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For Russia’s Communists, Ousting Putin Is a Priority
New York Times, by Yulia Taranova
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Original Article
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Posted By:PageTurner, 11/7/2009 4:27:02 PM
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| 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
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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....
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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.
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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.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
scottc, 11/7/2009 5:31:56 PM (No. 6009437)
Russian communists are wondering "Where is our Obama?"
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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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