NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
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On Monday, the day after the election, there was a<br />
protest in the center of Moscow; despite the rain<br />
, thousands assembled — a sight unseen since the t<br />
ime of Perestroika. The leaders of the Nah-Nah mov<br />
ement and Mr. Navalny’s supporters stood together.<br />
The police arrested nearly 300 people. Among them<br />
was one of the authors of the Nah-Nah strategy, I<br />
lya Yashin, as well as Aleksei Navalny himself. Th<br />
ey were held by the police all night, prevented fr<br />
om meeting with their lawyers. In the morning, the<br />
y were brought to court and sentenced to 15 days f<br />
or disobeying police orders and obstructing traffi<br />
c, respectively.<br />
An even larger protest is planned for Saturday. It<br />
seems that the government has decided to turn the<br />
two into heroes.<br />
Valery Panyushkin is the author of “12 Who Don’t A<br />
gree: The Battle for Freedom in Putin’s Russia.” T<br />
his essay was translated by Yevgeniya Traps from t<br />
he Russian.<br />
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<strong>NYT</strong>-1210: <strong>THE</strong> SATURDAY PR<strong>OF</strong>ILE<br />
Rousing Russia With a Phrase ... By ELLEN BARRY<br />
Aleksei Navalny has aroused Russians angry over wh<br />
at they say were fraudulent parliamentary election<br />
s, rebranding Vladimir V. Putin's United Russia pa<br />
rty as "the party of swindlers and thieves."<br />
===== notyet<br />
MOSCOW — The man most responsible for the extraord<br />
inary burst of antigovernment activism here over t<br />
he past week will not speak at a rally planned for<br />
Saturday, or even attend it, because he is in pri<br />
son.<br />
Cut off from the Internet, Russia’s best-known blo<br />
gger will have to wait until the next morning, whe<br />
n his lawyer will take him a stack of printouts te<br />
lling him what happened — whether the protest fizz