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Op dinsdag 30 december 2014 05:16 schreef meth1745 het volgende:

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lol, de hypocrisie bereikt een nieuw hoogtepunt, sancties voor het postuum veroordelen van een verdachte, terwijl ze weken geleden besloten om systematische martelingen, soms met de dood tot gevolg, ongestraft te laten.

Het is die self righteousness die de VS onderscheidt van de rest van de wereld. Het is de reden waarom Guantanamo Bay of het "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation" (aka School of the Americas) nog steeds bestaan. Anderen verdedigen hun misdaden met "het doel heiligt de middelen", maar Amerikanen denken net als de nazi's dat ze "in eer en geweten" handelen, met
American exceptionalism als rechtvaardiging.

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ChristopherJM twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 12:00:19 SBU nearly caught #Strelkov in April. Mole in security service tipped him off, he slipped away http://t.co/wqGZBBhLCB http://t.co/1XierzSS2K reageer retweet

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Ukraine's top intelligence agency deeply infiltrated by Russian spies

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Kremlin critic Navalny given suspended sentence, brother jailed

Reuters) - A Russian court gave Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a suspended sentence on Tuesday for embezzling money but jailed his brother for three and a half years in a case seen as part of a campaign to stifle dissent.

Navalny led mass protests against President Vladimir Putin three years ago, when tens of thousands took to the streets in Moscow and St Petersburg to protest against corruption in his government and inner circle. Opposition figures say jailing Navalny risked a new wave of protests and so it was decided to punish him by jailing his brother instead.

Navalny’s supporters will gather in front of the Kremlin later on Tuesday with some 17,000 people having registered on Facebook to attend although the numbers may be smaller as people prepare to celebrate the New Year. The authorities have not given permission for the rally so it is considered illegal and there maybe arrests.

The Navalny brothers, Alexei and Oleg, were accused of stealing 30 million rubles, around $500,000 at the current exchange rate, from two firms including an affiliate of the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher between 2008 and 2012.

Tuesday's ruling will come as a relief for Navalny's supporters after prosecutors asked that he be imprisoned for 10 years. The Kremlin denies allegations that it uses the courts to persecute opponents.

Officials have taken few steps to investigate Navalny's corruption allegations. He claimed there was mass embezzlement, including in state bank VTB and pipeline monopoly Transneft, run by close allies of Putin.

"Aren't you ashamed of what you are doing?" Navalny told the court and judge Yelena Korobchenko. "Why are you putting him (my brother Oleg) in prison? To punish me even harder?"

Currently under house arrest, Alexei Navalny is serving another suspended five-year jail term for a separate conviction last year, which critics also called a sham.

"The authorities are torturing and destroying relatives of their political opponents. This regime doesn't deserve to exist, it must be destroyed," Navalny told reporters outside the court as he was escorted in a car for prisoners.

Russian state television channels were not covering the sentencing or mentioned it very briefly, while most Russian print media or radio stations had it among their top stories.

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment and said the president would find out about the verdict from media.

Putin's popularity has soared over the past year after Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Russian-speaking Crimea peninsula and its incursion in east Ukraine, which led to the worst stand-off with the West since the end of the Cold War. This has eroded the popularity of opposition leaders such as Navalny.

However, falling oil prices and Western sanctions on Russia over Ukraine have triggered a deep economic crisis, a rouble devaluation and double-digit inflation, threatening Putin's reputation for safeguarding Russian prosperity.

Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, one of the most respected Russian economists in the West, said this month Russia was facing a full-fledged crisis which could lead to mass protests next year.

"The authorities could have easily put Navalny in jail. But they understand that it would have led to a large wave of protests. So they will torture him through other means," economist and former central banker turned opposition figure, Sergei Aleksashenko, told independent television channel Dozhd.

Lawyers for Oleg Navalny said they didn't know where exactly he would be sent to serve his prison term. Putin's critic and billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky served his 10-year jail term in penal colonies from northern Russia to east Siberia.

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ChristopherJM twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 04:24:30 .@pussyrrriot drops new video "The Witches of Pussy Riot Clean Manezhka" urging Russians to rally for @navalny https://t.co/8KQy8ebgsu reageer retweet

Ведьмы из Pussy Riot чистят Манежку

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ChristopherJM twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 14:09:33 Heavy police presence now in central #Moscow ahead of planned protest for @navalny & bro. http://t.co/kbzegM1JCr via @euro_manezhka reageer retweet

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KevinRothrock twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 15:49:59 https://t.co/zm0W6cKvhL @leonidvolkov says he & Navalny have 25k Firechat subscribers, leading him to say 30k+ might turn out tonight. reageer retweet

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MiriamElder twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 15:44:29 .@USEmbRu warns US citizens "there are concerns regarding the potential for violence at tonight’s protest" http://t.co/KdxX9xvKCO reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 16:53:28 Must follows on the ground in #Moscow as @navalny protest kicks off right now are photographer @EvgenyFeldman and reporter @ilyamuz. reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 16:54:46 Other follows at protest in #Moscow are @NatVasilyevaAP and @ilya_shepelin. reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 17:03:29 Thousands of Russians are about to protest for @navalny in #Moscow. Latest news @mashable: http://t.co/p5xKYLVKxy http://t.co/SpRF8D8lhI reageer retweet

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ilyamuz twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 17:04:15 people chanting “free navalny”, “free russia” #moscow http://t.co/oOTY6GIobs reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 17:17:58 Protesters scream as police arrest @navalny on the street http://t.co/p5xKYLVKxy http://t.co/8GHC6gjy15 #Moscow reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 17:14:07 Streamer has now met up with @navalny on the freezing streets of #Moscow and is following. Watch live: http://t.co/p5xKYLVKxy reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 17:22:53 After breaking house arrest, @navalny quickly nabbed by police, tossed in truck http://t.co/p5xKYLVKxy http://t.co/on3Ap2VCDd Pic @antonb_ru reageer retweet

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ilyamuz twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 17:36:45 people suddenly have lots of large navalny stickers. great imagery, at walls of kremlin http://t.co/3TUmIVnPHz reageer retweet

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ChristopherJM twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 17:37:02 #Moscow protesters chanting "Russia without Putin!" reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 16:52:12 About 1000 people so far on what remains of the cordoned off Manezh square, peaceful so far. reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 18:45:05 I'm Russian and I'm used to winter weather but tonight is just too cold - -16C. reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 18:37:18 Have taken shelter to get warm. About 2,000 protesters here at the highest point, now hundreds left. reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 18:38:22 Crowd is mostly under 40, the atmosphere very tense, determined. These ppl risk spending New Year's Eve in jail. reageer retweet

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NatVasilyevaAP twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 18:39:09 No internet connection on the square. reageer retweet

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maxseddon twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 18:25:03 Navalny, home after being detained at the protest, says 5 riot police are outside his door to stop him going back. https://t.co/JYo1ry4zKt reageer retweet

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ilyamuz twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 18:34:31 cop megaphones: “citizens, your actions are illegal. disperse” http://t.co/OY7hJiJG2p reageer retweet

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mashant twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 18:39:33 171 detained http://t.co/WFoSzh9WMr reageer retweet

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Thousands of people protest near the Kremlin

Thousands protest in Moscow after opposition leader's guilty verdict | Mashable

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The brothers have denied the charge that they stole about $800,000 from a French cosmetics giant Yves Rocher. The company has also said no crime had been committed against it by the men.

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Yatsenyuk wants to keep ties with Crimea, Donbas

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Op dinsdag 30 december 2014 23:09 schreef deelnemer het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 30 december 2014 19:05 schreef Gabrunal_2013 het volgende:
navalny breekt bewust zijnhuisarrest om gearresteerd te kunnen worden en zo protesten op de been te brengen. Ik zou zeggen, enkeltje Siberie, jammer dat er van coulance altijd weer misbruik wordt gemaakt.

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Op dinsdag 30 december 2014 23:58 schreef IPA35 het volgende:
Jezelf niet afberen op de Amerikaanse vlag =/= landverraad

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Op dinsdag 30 december 2014 19:59 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Ziet er behoorlijk heftig uit ja

Thousands protest in Moscow after opposition leader's guilty verdict | Mashable

Wat een nep proces ook weer...

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StateOfUkraine twitterde op woensdag 31-12-2014 om 00:04:02 Russian security services (FSB) raided a Moscow theater tonight known for its dissident plays & are arresting people/removing equipment reageer retweet

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NataliaAntonova twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 20:14:51 U, so two people have been DETAINED at @teatrdoc for trying to show a movie about Maidan. Just letting you guys know! reageer retweet

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NataliaAntonova twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 20:29:40 They came to my favorite Moscow theater and detained people for trying to show a freaking documentary. Feeling somewhat "Children of Men." reageer retweet

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NataliaAntonova twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 20:46:51 The best part of cops invading @teatrdoc? They shouted, "There's a bomb in this building! Nobody leave!" I'm not kidding right now. #Moscow reageer retweet

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NataliaAntonova twitterde op dinsdag 30-12-2014 om 21:48:45 News from @teatrdoc: They're searching the premises. On what grounds? No idea. Theater already evicted. Now it's getting worse. Please RT. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 31 december 2014 00:00 schreef remlof het volgende:

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Ik heb heel weinig met dat kut-Amerika.

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Op dinsdag 30 december 2014 09:22 schreef Zith het volgende:

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Ben je voor of tegen mensenrechtenschendingen in Rusland? Ben je voor of tegen mensenrechtenschendingen in de USA. Als je antwoord tegen is, op beide, dan moet je individuele sancties of straffen steunen.

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