Posted AT 10:18 PM EDT on 01/06/07
For today's tyrants, it's the way 'the West' is shunned
MOSCOW — A few weeks ago, Muscovites awoke to find a strange swarm of red-jacketed activists filling their streets, visibly agitated, handing out phone cards to anyone who passed.
They were members of Nashi (“ours”), a pro-Kremlin youth group endorsed by President Vladimir Putin.
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