8-2-19 Lyubov Sobol and others have announced that the protest will continue in the form of a mass Saturday stroll through Moscow this week, with other rallies to follow.
"Yes, some will be too afraid now. But others will come out because of what's happened," she says. "They can't resolve this by putting people behind bars. Only by giving them their rights at elections."...
Once a member of Russia's federal parliament,
"They're worried if we're free, we can participate in the protest actions," the 39-year old said, holding his wife's hand across a wooden barrier. "Thirty days is a high level of repression. This is very tough." But tougher measures are already in place. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49205690
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It seems small farmers, those least likely able to survive a protection war with China or any other country, haven't seen any improvement in their precarious economic positon. The same cannot be said, however, of mega-farms owned by billionaires. Those companies are seeing subsidies in the billions coming in from D.C.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/33006-billions-in-farm-bailouts-going-to-giant-multinational-agri-business-not-family-farms
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It seems small farmers, those least likely able to survive a protection war with China or any other country, haven't seen any improvement in their precarious economic positon. The same cannot be said, however, of mega-farms owned by billionaires. Those companies are seeing subsidies in the billions coming in from D.C.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/33006-billions-in-farm-bailouts-going-to-giant-multinational-agri-business-not-family-farms
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