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***** Riot upstages Vladimir Putin

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***** Riot upstages Vladimir Putin with protest that halts World Cup final

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***** Riot member being dragged from the World Cup championship game by Russian security personnel.

7/15/18
Protest group ***** Riot, long a thorn in Vladimir Putin's side, claimed responsibility Sunday for four people who brought the World Cup final to a brief halt by running onto the field dressed in police uniforms as the Russian president and a global audience watched. Stewards tackled the three women and one man who charged onto the field simultaneously in the 52nd minute of one of the world's most viewed sporting events. Before being hauled away, one of the women reached the center of the field and shared a double high-five with France forward Kylian Mbappe. "Hello everyone from the Luzhniki field, it's great here," the heavily political punk performance group said on Twitter , and released a statement calling for the freeing of political prisoners, an end to "illegal arrests" of protesters and to "allow political competition" in Russia. The statement also referenced the case of Oleg Sentsov, a vocal opponent of Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, who was sentenced in 2015 to 20 years for conspiracy to commit terror acts. He denies the charges and has been on a hunger strike since mid-May.

"The citizens in question were taken to the local police station," the Moscow branch of the Russian Interior Ministry said, without providing further details. A video circulated on Russian social media after the match appeared to show two of the protesters, still in police uniforms, being harshly interrogated at a police station. The Internet TV channel Dozhd identified one of them as Pyotr Verzilov, one of the group's most prominent members. Putin was watching the game alongside his French and Croatian counterparts and FIFA President Gianni Infantino, among other dignitaries. FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The event's local organizing committee said it did not have further information.

Putin doesn't like to be globally embarrassed in such a manner. You can bet these four will be spending years in various Russian penal-colonies. Molodets!

Related: World Cup 2018: The Moral Clarity of ***** Riot‘s Protest

PS. There are 83 Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars in Russian prisons for protesting the illegal annexation of their Crimea home. Film Director Oleg Sentsov is among these incarcerated political prisoners.
 
***** Riot is very brave. How bad must it be in Russia when their citizens are willing to sacrifice their own freedom just to speak out against injustice?
 
Oh that's who ran onto the field today! Small world.
 


I wondered who interrupted the match and it looked like a small woman or a boy who ran around in the field for about ten seconds. But Putin is the biggest winner of the World Cup and Russia restored its international standing after the successful tournament.

Donald J. Trump

Congratulations to France, who played extraordinary soccer, on winning the 2018 World Cup. Additionally, congratulations to President Putin and Russia for putting on a truly great World Cup Tournament -- one of the best ever!
 
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What an utterly puerile article and argument by Rogue.


Someone seems to have an obsession with littering the forum with pieces written by Russophobes, pieces which are so lacking in analytical rigour that even the other Russophobes who loiter on here can't summon up the will to join in the compulsory self righteous affirmation that Russia is truly the devil incarnate. :roll:
 
***** Riot is very brave. How bad must it be in Russia when their citizens are willing to sacrifice their own freedom just to speak out against injustice?

Send them to Siberia for awhile.
 
Who'd have thought the Russians would have so much trouble grabbing *****, Trump could be useful after all
 
Send them to Siberia for awhile.

Yes, that would be Putin's and your form of justice for interrupting a game. Good Grief do you ever listen to yourself, I doubt it.
 
***** Riot is very brave. How bad must it be in Russia when their citizens are willing to sacrifice their own freedom just to speak out against injustice?

I saw two P.R. members interviewed either Bill Maher or Jon Stewart. They needed an interpreter. They are truly brave women!
 
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