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Podcast: Who Won Russia Day?

Vladimir Putin addresses the Popular Front. Aleksei Navalny takes to the street. And Mikhail Prokorov takes a pass.
Vladimir Putin addresses the Popular Front. Aleksei Navalny takes to the street. And Mikhail Prokorov takes a pass.

June 14, 2013

Both supporters and opponents of President Vladimir Putin mobilized their forces on the Russia Day national holiday this week.

One front gathered in Moscow’s ornate Manezh, just across from the Kremlin. In a tightly choreographed affair, they chanted "Russia! Russia!" and "Putin! Putin!" Another took to the streets, marching through the center of the capital chanting "Russia without Putin."

This week's edition of the Power Vertical podcast takes a look at Putin’s All-Russian Popular Front, which held its founding congress on June 12, and the 10,000-strong opposition protest that took place the same day. How did these dueling attempts by the regime and the opposition to respectively re-legitimize themselves before a weary public fare?

Joining me are co-hosts Mark Galeotti of New York University, Kirill Kobrin of RFE/RL’s Russian Service, and Sean Guillory or the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies. 

Also on the podcast, we discuss oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov’s decision not to run for Moscow mayor -- and anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny’s struggle to enter that race.

Enjoy...

The Power Vertical Podcast: Who Won Russia Day?
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by: Konstantin from: Los Angeles
June 17, 2013 21:28
It was an opinion in USSR, some even snitched out of me,
That if USSR would transform into CIS, by 1936 Constitution,
And Russians, of coarse, were not capable as a nation to be,
Specialists of other nations, mixed marriages and institutions,
Being there or moving to Russia, would make them a nation.

Unfortunately, although CIS limited despot-Varags-Prussaks,
They rule Russia with old imperial ambitions, they still attack
Other nations, grabbing their land and homes and sabotage.
The question is Russian polls, are they becoming "mudaks",
From once 30% to now a 65% of "suki"with nazi "plumage".

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