Just a few days after we heard that protesters were being
given more freedom in Russia, Murmansk allowed a protest but used a basic, but effective tool to limit the event --
manure. Or were they just trying to grow larger flowers? (Link found
via Wired)
Quote:
The stench of dung stopped anti-Kremlin protesters rallying in the Russian city of Murmansk on Tuesday, an opposition activist said.
Opponents of President
Vladimir Putin had hoped to rally on the porch of the Culture Palace but city authorities closed the building, took away the porch's steps and spread dung around it, said Yelena Vasilyeva, local leader of the United Civil Front opposition movement.
"The stench was so strong you couldn't breathe, so only the most tenacious stayed," she said.
Dung was spread around a landmark building to fertilize the land, said a police spokesman in Murmansk, a city not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland.
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