Summery
The
article under discussion is entitled “Russian opposition stages
biggest-ever rally”.
The
gist of this article boils down to the fact that between
50,000 and 100,000 people took to Moscow’s Bolotnaya Ploshchad on
Saturday in a giant opposition rally challenging the results of this
month’s parliamentary elections.
One
of the highlights of this article is the fact that thirteen
million votes were stolen across the country - 800,000 in Moscow
alone.
The
crowd, consisting mainly of young people, often chanted “Down with
Putin!” and “Down with the party of crooks and thieves!”
The
crowd cheered most liberal speakers, but booed nationalist leader
Konstantin Krylov when he started talking about an ethnic-based
“Russkaya” revolution.
Political
analyst Dmitry Oreshkin, who worked with the Golos independent
monitoring group in the elections, said it had estimated that United
Russia’s real share of the vote was not 49 percent but 30 percent
across the country, and just 26 percent in Moscow.
People
in the crowd expressed surprise that the rally had been so large.
Many
protesters held colorful homemade banners and slogans, including a
placard that read “Tzar is fraud” in English, and a slogan on a
balloon that said, “I’m not a sheep,” in an apparent reference
to an obscene retweeted message that appeared on President Dmitry
Medvedev’s Twitter page that described bloggers who used the phrase
“party of crooks and thieves” as “expletive sheep.”
As
for me, I think that elections were counterfeit.
Besides, I don’t like our
government
and president.
In
conclusion I’d like to say that this article sheds light on very
interesting issue of economic and social life of Russia.
