Barnaul doll protest

Occupy Barnaul, Siberia (in miniature)

by on January 26, 2012

Doll ‘protesters’ present small problem for Russian police

“The authorities’ attempt to limit citizens’ rights to express their position has become absurd,” said Lyudmila Alexandrova, a 26-year-old graduate student and protest organiser. “We wanted to hyperbolise this attempt and show the absurdity and farce of officials’ struggle with their own people.

Police in the Siberian city of Barnaul have asked prosecutors to investigate the legality of a recent protest that

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