Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Evgeny Lebedev, son of ex-KGB Colonel, member of Russia's State Duma Alexander Lebedev (who BTW in 2014 publicly supported the annexation of Crimea).
Evgeny is the co-owner of British newspapers Evening Standard, The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. More importantly, sir Evgeny was nominated peerage of the United Kingdom by Boris Johnson, and appointed to the House of Lords yesterday.
Welcome to Londongrad.
Police in Belarus arrested more than 160 protesters on Sunday who were calling for authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to resign, the Associated Press reports.
Hundreds of people gathered in Belarus’s capital city of Minsk, reports the AP, with many waving the red and white opposition flag.
More than 30,000 people have been detained in the six months since the election, the AP notes.
The actions of a police officer who threatened the protesters with his service weapon on Sennaya Square in the center of St. Petersburg yesterday were justified and legal, declared the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in St. Petersburg.
Sociology of the protest in St. Petersburg:
Minors - 1.5%.
18-24 - 33%
25-35 - 42.5%
36-46 - 12%
The median age is 28. 17% participated for the first time yesterday, another 30% participated for the first time this year.
A generation is emerging for which Putin's fascism has forever closed any prospects. The problem is not Navalny's arrest. The problem is that Putin and his gang have robbed their future from them.
