{"id":12669,"date":"2015-12-05T00:27:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T05:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=12669"},"modified":"2015-12-05T00:27:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T05:27:32","slug":"russias-protesting-truckers-and-putin-euromaidan-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/05\/russias-protesting-truckers-and-putin-euromaidan-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s protesting truckers | Euromaidan Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/euromaidanpress.com\/2015\/12\/05\/russias-protesting-truckers-and-putin\/#arvlbdata\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/trucks2.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin&#8217;s worst nightmare &mdash; a <em>trucker-Maidan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dmytro Homon writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, the protest is spontaneous and is not coordinated from a single center. For that reason, the police have been unable to shut it down because other drivers immediately take the place of the ones detained. <\/p>\n<p>Second, the protestors are not the usual \u201cfifth column\u201d opposition by intellectuals. These are, for the most part, Putin\u2019s voters \u2014 tough guys who in elections vote for stability&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Third, all Russians clearly understand the complaints of the truck drivers. They boil down to the fact that greedy authorities are trying to take the shirt off the back of simple workers&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>For these reasons the usual methods of Russian propaganda are not very effective. The postings of the Olgino trolls (professional commentators from the \u201ctroll factory\u201d in the Olgino district of St. Petersburg \u2014 Ed.) that these protests are organized by the opposition look ridiculous. Attempts by mass media to ignore the truckers completely are equally ineffective because they have become a major topic in social networks&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, more and more trucks have been arriving to Moscow. What will happen next is a question with no answer yet. In fact, even the truckers themselves do not know what to do after the blockade. <\/p>\n<p>If the Russian authorities use brute force, this risks repeating the fate of Yanukovych. Putin, however, has nowhere to flee from the Kremlin. Well, perhaps to Syria&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"\/\/euromaidanpress.com\/2015\/12\/05\/russias-protesting-truckers-and-putin\/\">Russia&#8217;s protesting truckers and Putin | Euromaidan Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin&#8217;s worst nightmare &mdash; a trucker-Maidan. Dmytro Homon writes: First, the protest is spontaneous and is not coordinated from a single center. For that reason, the police have been unable to shut it down because other drivers immediately take the place of the ones detained. Second, the protestors are not the usual \u201cfifth column\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/05\/russias-protesting-truckers-and-putin-euromaidan-press\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Russia&#8217;s protesting truckers | Euromaidan Press&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,57,29],"tags":[3006,3498,3614],"class_list":["post-12669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia-former-ussr","category-stock-markets","category-the-big-picture","tag-russia","tag-truckers-protest","tag-vladimir-putin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russia&#039;s protesting truckers | Euromaidan Press - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia&#039;s protesting truckers | Euromaidan Press - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vladimir Putin&#8217;s worst nightmare &mdash; a trucker-Maidan. 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