From all what is happening in Russia, what are the citizens saying about the current happenings
Why cant they put down Mr X and all this will be history, because millions of people have been displaced, thousands injured and hundeds killed, all this all because of selfish desires by a few individuals. The world is bigger than one man or should i say a few individuals! Peace and Love must win this fight.
A vast majority really supports Putin, the rest is scared of the consequences of not supporting him.
Some brave and smarter ones already left the country.
As Putin continues to target civilian infrastructure to appease his fervent supporters, leaders of civilized countries will distance themselves
from him.
Only terrorists would talk to this gnome during the G20 meeting next month.
A vast majority copes with Putin the best they can. Those who cannot longer cope and have good skills leave the country.
The supporters of Putin are those who benefit from the regime the most: Military in the high ranks that benefit from taking their cuts (a reason why most of the claims about size and performance of their army are wrong) and some of the secret services, which take their cuts from informants and live a good life.
All other citizens mean nothing.
They are protesting but in Russia they have special police trained to fight protesters and these guys are brutal. They don't care if you're a woman or a child, everybody gets hit with batons and sprayed with tear gas the same way and then they drag you to a prison transport and you don't get a phone call to family like in the US, or a hot meal. More likely they'll make you take your clothes off and leave you naked for the night or come back in a few hours to beat you. You don't get to experience this in "normal" countries. You need big balls to be an anti government protester in Russia or Belarus.
Thank God, similar policemen in the West give protesters donuts and coffee, and spread love and peace
among protesters
So they applied "Shock and awe"? And whose invention was that?
Curious you could not find a better pic. What I see there is one protester being arrested while 50 people in the background film it.
An seriously speaking, protesting in most developed countries is widely admitted - not if it carries violence. We have all seen people arrested in the Red Square for holding a white sheet of paper.