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(19,429 posts) Sat Jul 20, 2013, 10:51 PM Jul 2013

Navalny’s Supporters May Face Up to 3 Yrs in Jail for Vandalism – Police

The walls and doors of the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, were covered with hundreds of stickers reading "Change Russia. Start from Moscow" with Navalny’s name and face on them – along with sometimes obscene graffiti denouncing Putin and “the party of crooks and thieves,” a phrase the anti-corruption blogger coined to ridicule the Kremlin’s United Russia party.

Moscow police said in a statement that the yet unidentified protesters who left the stickers and graffiti will be charged with vandalism and face hefty fines and up to three years in jail.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20130720/182341383/Navalnys-Supporters-May-Face-Up-to-3-Yrs-in-Jail-for-Vandalism--Police.html

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