Word: protesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russia opposition movement, a group of improbable allies brought together by Putin's repressive intransigence. The demonstrators marched in St. Petersburg, which happens to also be President Vladimir Putin's birthplace and showcase for his G-8 peers. A showcase Russian city hadn't seen that size of a protest for a decade. The violent street clash not only ushered in the year of parliamentary and presidential elections, it also called into question the Kremlin propagandists' claim that eight years of Putin rule has created stability in Russia...
...While the OMON riot cops were dispersing and beating up the Other Russia in St. Petersburg, several hundred people gathered for a quieter but no less emotionally packed protest action in Moscow. They were mostly senior citizens, who argue that they have worked all their lives for the state and now are dying because they can't survive on the state's meager pensions...
...when his son was reprimanded by his Senior Tutor for participating in a protest of Dow Chemical, the manufacturer of the chemical Agent Orange, used by the military in Vietnam, Schlesinger directed his activism against Harvard...
...when his son was reprimanded by his Senior Tutor for participating in a protest of Dow Chemical, the manufacturer of the chemical Agent Orange, used by the military in Vietnam, Schlesinger directed his activism against Harvard...
...arrival. Bradley’s latest book—”Harvard Rules,” an account of the early years of former University President Lawrence H. Summers—was filling bookstores while at the same time Harvard professors were filling University Hall to protest their president. An unprecedented no-confidence vote would soon fuel the faculty’s revolt, and some observers thought Summers might not survive...