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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ours later, a blindingly profane reference to Mr.<br />
Navalny was reposted from President Dmitri A. Medv<br />
edev’s Twitter account, prompting his press office<br />
to release a statement explaining that the messag<br />
e had been sent out by a member of the technical s<br />
upport staff “during a routine password change.”<br />
On Thursday, United Russia published an attack on<br />
Mr. Navalny, describing his activism as “typical d<br />
irty self-promotion,” and Secretary of State Hilla<br />
ry Rodham Clinton issued a statement about his cas<br />
e. The consulting firm Medialogia documented a sud<br />
den leap in the number of mentions of Mr. Navalny<br />
in the Russian news media, from several hundred a<br />
day to around 3,000. On Friday, people started cir<br />
culating a Web site promoting him as a candidate i<br />
n the March presidential election. Mr. Navalny, ev<br />
en skeptics admit, managed to knit together a crow<br />
d that had not previously existed.<br />
“They had never gathered anywhere together before,<br />
” wrote Grigory Tumanov, a reporter for Gazeta.ru.<br />
“They just read Twitter, and to them it was clear<br />
that in this situation you have to go somewhere,<br />
do something, unite around someone, because it was<br />
intolerable. Let this be Navalny, with all his pl<br />
uses and minuses.”<br />
BY his appeals hearing on Wednesday, Mr. Navalny l<br />
ooked tired and disgusted. His supporters had foun<br />
d amateur video showing that he had not resisted a<br />
rrest, and that the officers who testified against<br />
him were not the ones who had arrested him, but t<br />
he judge refused to review it. A photograph taken<br />
from outside the detention center showed him gripp<br />
ing the bars on his window and staring out with a<br />
fierce, fixed gaze.<br />
“There are people standing here who were not recru<br />
ited by anyone,” said Viktor Masyagin, 28, outside<br />
a courtroom earlier in the week. “No one drove us<br />
here in buses, no one paid us anything, but here