Politics and the student world
While most of the principals and rectors are being brainwashed or threatened with the purpose of making them influence their students in a peaceful or not very peaceful way, those students that still after all the force refuse to give up and join the sheep flock get arrested.
Russian authority became lately very desperate and started limiting all possible freedoms. Not only with words, but using power and arresting people with no real reason. So much of democracy and legitimacy.
Some videos and audios on the topic:
Pressure on schools principals - one of the principals talking about it and asking others to resist it:
Krasnoyarsk gymnasium: student is threatened by police and court case for his actions - he removed agitational posters of "United Russia" from the walls of the gymnasium (any political agitation inside any schools is illegal)
One of Ekaterinburg univercities: students are basicly threatened to have problems at school if they don't follow the advise to vote for "United Russia"
Tomsk primary school: meeting with parents became political agitation for "United Russia"
Moscow State University students' arrests: start watching from minute 6 and pay attention to a man without any uniform dragging one of the students to the police car, at 08.06. None of the police representatives agreed to show their documents or explain the reasons of arrests or why some of them did not wear uniform...
Unfortunately, the number of those stories is huge...
But for some positive ending of my blog entry here is a video from Journalistics faculty of Moscow University - students are washing their university after Medvedev's visit, cleaning off the shame and dirt. For those who doesn't know the whole story: in the end of October he came there for a meeting with so called students, who in fact were chosen before and brought there from different schools and even towns. Real students of the faculty were not allowed to enter the meeting, some were arrested.
Russian authority became lately very desperate and started limiting all possible freedoms. Not only with words, but using power and arresting people with no real reason. So much of democracy and legitimacy.
Some videos and audios on the topic:
Pressure on schools principals - one of the principals talking about it and asking others to resist it:
Click to viewKrasnoyarsk gymnasium: student is threatened by police and court case for his actions - he removed agitational posters of "United Russia" from the walls of the gymnasium (any political agitation inside any schools is illegal)
One of Ekaterinburg univercities: students are basicly threatened to have problems at school if they don't follow the advise to vote for "United Russia"
Tomsk primary school: meeting with parents became political agitation for "United Russia"
Moscow State University students' arrests: start watching from minute 6 and pay attention to a man without any uniform dragging one of the students to the police car, at 08.06. None of the police representatives agreed to show their documents or explain the reasons of arrests or why some of them did not wear uniform...
Unfortunately, the number of those stories is huge...
But for some positive ending of my blog entry here is a video from Journalistics faculty of Moscow University - students are washing their university after Medvedev's visit, cleaning off the shame and dirt. For those who doesn't know the whole story: in the end of October he came there for a meeting with so called students, who in fact were chosen before and brought there from different schools and even towns. Real students of the faculty were not allowed to enter the meeting, some were arrested.