Putin is very angry

Yegor Zhukov, Moscow student, published a video-blog on August 1st, depicting how the members of Russian security services had taken up all the power in Russia, using protests re: local elections as an excuse.
"Russia will inevitably be free, but we may not experience it if we let fear win, because when fear conquers, silence ensues ... silence disturbed by the squeaking of the black police van's brakes and the deafening doorbell, which divides life into the before and after", he wrote, as Podgorica Vijesti reported.
Eight hours later, in the middle of the night, police rang the doorbell. He sent another message: "They came for me." He was taken away after hours and charged with involvement in "mass riots" during summer protests. The charges were fabricated. Not only were the protests peaceful, but Zhukov was also misidentified in a recording used by police.
But his arrest, as well as the arrest of numerous other activists, was not accompanied by silence. Students and academics signed open letters, bloggers and rappers came to support him in court, and at the next major protest on August 10, about 50,000 people took to the streets. Zhukov was released and remained in custody after a month in detention, with the original charge reversed to a somewhat milder degree for "extremism".

Putin's running out of non-violent methods Tanjug/AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File

Britain's "Economist" writes that protests in Moscow have shown that Russian President Vladimir Putin is running out of non-violent means of maintaining power. However, they also showed that ordinary Russians were no longer prepared to suffer terror and that this change in the mood of the people made it difficult for the Kremlin to terrorize them.
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