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Russian Protest Crackdown

Riot police detained more than 200 people at a rally protesting the Kremlin and the Putin government. What do you think?

Sidney Gerber • Lab Technician

“Can’t those people just settle down and enjoy the iron fist of democracy?”

Sidney Gerber • Lab Technician

Violet Klein • Rug Cleaner

“The thing you have to respect about Putin is that he doesn’t send others to do his dirty work; he went out there, knocked those 200 people around, and arrested them himself.”

Violet Klein • Rug Cleaner

Jonas VanDerHeusen • Information Boot Attendant

“What can be said? They beat them with sticks. Then they drank together, and embraced, and laughed. They talked of sweet Natalya and her sister Yulia with her copper-red hair. They beat them again.”

Jonas VanDerHeusen • Information Boot Attendant