Progress…
… in the Kremlin, 2,000 dignitaries [including "close friend," the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi] applauded Putin’s every step down the red carpet into a vast hall with gilded columns, the throne room of tsars, where he was sworn in with his right hand resting on the red-bound Russian constitution.
“We will achieve our goals if we are a single, united people, if we hold our fatherland dear, strengthen Russian democracy, constitutional rights and freedoms,”
[Putin] took his place under a huge gilded sunburst, the “All-Powerful Eye,” which was hung so it could cast its rays onto the throne of the czar.
Outside the Kremlin walls, Mr. Putin announced his return in another way. The police swept boulevards and squares, detaining anyone they saw wearing white ribbons, the symbol adopted by anti-Putin activists.
Riot police officers in camouflage charged into cafes and restaurants in search of protesters, in one spot sending cups and glasses flying. Once in police custody, scores of young men were referred to military draft offices.
…Police officers in riot gear charged into the crowd trying to drag out people they thought had pelted them with smoke bombs and rocks, and beat them fiercely with nightsticks.
Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, responded by saying that the police reaction was too gentle and that he would have liked to see them crack down harder.
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“Occupy” does not work so well in Mother Russia.
Until this moment, I had never given much thought to how “short” Putin is!!!!
Volga Boatmen wanted…
ColJ
Yeah, he needs to work on holding one hand in his jacket.
I wonder if he swore himself in.
Next Winter, he’ll kick all the French out.
Major faux pas there. He forgot to put the ermine trim on his jacket.
‘Spose Uhbama is taking notes?
Anybody not find any of these visuals — and wording — chilling?
(3 + 4): Hmmm….. Napoleon: short; Hitler: short; Mao: short (?); uh-oh.
Next Winter, he’ll kick all the French out. … Ha-ha. But actually, the question is: will his winer offensive bog down on the outskirts of Paris?
This will happen in America in very short order, but it won’t be the occupiers that are assaulted.
Ironic (6)
“Winter is coming.” — Game of Thrones
Oh, yeah.
Forgot to ask if Putin has appointed his horse to the legislature, yet.
Back to the FutureBack to the PastForward to the Past
Pooty doesn’t need a murder of czars, he is his own czar, see?
And I don’t think there are many strings on him being pulled by others.
^^ “Winter is Coming” — isn’t that when the
White WalkersRuskies come over the wall?Do they even have a chair anymore to place against the wall?
^ Mech, assuming I understand your question, I expect they will use the piles of bodies of the citizens of breakaway states who do not wish to be re-assimilated in lieu of the chair.
Aside: Europe is so totally fucked. One way or the other they are going to be someone’s bitch.
mech (9)
Yeah, Czars/Tsars:
I’m gonna hafta work up some RasPutin jokes, now.