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Last weekend, the Kremlin violently attacked peaceful protest marchers in Russia's two major cities. Kommersant reported: "The Moscow Helsinki Group and other human rights organizations are going to sent information they have gathered about beatings and unsanctioned arrests to the Prosecutor General's Office. Other Russia leaders also sent appeals to EU and U.S. authorities, asking them to deny visas for those responsible for the suppression of the rallies. The list includes Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko and some other officials. A group of Other Russia activists are going to take a stroll along Rozhdestvensky Boulevard in Moscow on Sunday to denounce last week's violence."

On Tuesday, the International Air Transport Association reported that Russia is the most dangerous place in the world to board a Western-made civilian aircraft.

On Wednesday, Russian police raided the offices of an NGO that trains Russian journalists how to actually report the news as opposed to parrotting the Kremlin line. It was also reported that Russia's wealthy continue to gobble up the nation's resources at a rate six times faster than the nation as a whole is growing, re-creating the economic situation that existed at the time of the Bolshevik revolution, while millions languish in dire poverty. The heads of the European Union declared that the EU-Russia relationship is at its lowest ebb since the fall of communism. As for America, the Speaker of Russia's version of the House of Representatives told the body that America got what it deserved in the Virginia Tech killings. Boris Gryzlov stated: "The situation where a country dictates rules of behavior to other countries, but cannot keep its own people in order, does raise questions." Russia's murder rate is five times higher than America's. Cold War is openly being discussed now between the two countries.

On Thursday, despite all that, a new public opinion poll in Russia showed Vladimir Putin enjoying 79% public appoval, with two-thirds of respondents calling for him to remain in office for a third term.

Today, and all weekend long, dark-skinned students will be confined to their dormitories like criminals in Russia in order to allow Russia's vast hoard of neo-nazis to celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday without blood in streets. Forces of the "Other Russia" protest coalition, of course, continue to be banned from marching.

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