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Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot is the trigger for the Web mass in Twitter and Co to get involved in Russian politics. Now, the three young women have sacrificed years of their life for this goal. The question remains, though, why they released the trigger in a religious building. After all they want to topple the corrupt regime around Putin and the bureaucrats, as their prcedessors like Chodorchovski did. Or is it a different motivation that lies behind the action of the three young ladies? The orthodox church and the bureaucrats regime of Moscow are forming an alliance, so it is not obvious, which of them Pussy Riots has on its focus. They have performed their flash mob appearances on the streets of Moscow before, and were each time arested after a short while. But only in the holy place, they where accused of a serious crime "sewing of religious hatred". Putin has to fear the Rock'n Roll attitude, because it is there to show the people, they don't need to follow unreasonable rules....
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Obama is strong in economic issues and McCain points in security issues. In August the Georgian crisis could suggest, that McCain wins, as the West is threatened in the world. Then came the financial crisis, and Obama has consistently improved until November 4th, when he won the election. But it is conspicuous, that while Russias dared the West throughout the year, in the last weeks before the election, it was quite. As soon as Obama was elected, Mehdvedev stationed Iskander rockets in Kaliningrad, the entrance of Russia to the naval area of western europe, especially Germany (see image below). Story on RIA Novosti