Another speaker, Alexei Navalny of the organization "No to Political Repression", reminded those gathered about people who, in his view, had been deprived of their freedom for political reasons.... http://www.newsru.com/russia/12jun2006/meeting.html photo sindicat I've always been curious how such wild, astonishing nonsense gets invented. I imagine it like this: Two shaggy journalists are sitting in a room. Both are smoking like chimneys. Instead of an ashtray, they have a Coke can cut in half. we need to stick somebody's quote into the report. Did you write anyone down? yeah, some Navalny guy.. and where's he from, anyway? hell if I know, probably some kind of human rights activist.. and what was he even talking about? oh, for God's sake, they always say the same thing, something about political repression.. well, great, let's just write "from the organization 'No to Political Repression'" — who's going to check? They should've all been dispersed a long time ago..

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