Protests in Russian 🇷🇺Bashkiria are gaining momentum, thousands of people have come out to the rally The authorities shut down the Internet and blocked all entrances to the courthouse where local activist Fail Alsynov, who is accused of extremism, was sentenced. Last year, he appealed to the …

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1. When was the last time an empire was challenged by snowballs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre)

2. Good, I hope it explodes beyond their control

3. I’ll believe it can escalate, when I see it.
   Here’s hoping though!

4. One ethnic Russia with a happy trigger finger and the ball could really get moving.

5. I thought comments yesterday indicated that protest was dissolved?

6. Oh please let this get larger.

7. Free Russia! Fuck Putin!

8. Give them a bucket of potatoes and they are happy again.

9. Mass media tend to exaggerate everything. Lets put it into the context.

   This is 5k people protesting, about 1200 km (720 miles) from Moscow.

   In comparison with:

   There were protests in Moscow up to 200k people on the streets back in 2012 (google the snow revolution in russia) and putler is still in power.

   So far it is even less than a mosquito bite. May be it will grow and spread on other cities. But 99% chance that it will be stopped there by police. Some people will be killed, some throw to jail as it usually happens.