On Sunday hundreds of anti-war protesters were arrested in two locations in Moscow, One in front of the Russia's Defense Ministry, and another in downtown Moscow's Manezh Square.
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At least 362 people were detained in Moscow
Sunday, March 2, 2014 19:12
Moscow
A large number of detainees style st.19.3 Administrative Code, which provides up to 15 days of arrest, and left the police department. Other detainees style st.20.2 Administrative Code provides for fines of up to 30,000 rubles.
During the arrest, and the police department there were numerous egregious violations, including many detainees spent many hours in unheated paddy wagons. In particular, the ATS Marina Grove detainees still are in a paddy wagon.
There also was an larger government orchestrated demonstration in favor of military intervention in the Ukraine along Moscow's ring road.
Dozens Detained at Anti-War Rallies
Another rally in Moscow, one in support of intervention, was held on the city's Boulevard Ring. Police estimated that 27,000 people attended, with reporters from The Associated Press and Reuters posting on their Twitter accounts that many attendees were state employees. No detentions were reported.
Imperial Russia's last war of expansion started in 1894 when the Tsar dismissed strenuous Japanese objections to Russian expansion into Korea. The Tsar's subjects failed to rally around the Tsar and his war as he had expected them to, especially when the conflict became into grinding war of attrition in a siege of modern day Habrin that killed hundreds of thousands from each of the imperial combatants. Many said the Tsar also wanted a war to distract Russians from his government's rampant corruption and glaring inadequacies.
Putin may welcome a protracted crisis for similar domestic political reasons.
Comment is free The crisis in Crimea could lead the world into a second cold war
By Dmitri Trenin
This is unlikely to be a passing moment in Russian-western relations.
In Moscow, there is a growing fatigue with the west, with the EU and the United States. Their role in Ukraine is believed to be particularly obnoxious: imposing on Ukraine a choice between the EU and Russia that it could not afford; supporting the opposition against an elected government; turning a blind eye to right-wing radical descendants of wartime Nazi collaborators; siding with the opposition to pressure the government into submission; finally, condoning an unconstitutional regime change. The Kremlin is yet again convinced of the truth of the famous maxim of Alexander III, that Russia has only two friends in the world, its army and its navy. Both now defend its interests in Crimea.
The Crimea crisis will not pass soon. Kiev is unlikely to agree to Crimea's secession, even if backed by clear popular will: this would be discounted because of the "foreign occupation" of the peninsula. The crisis is also expanding to include other players, notably the United States.
Even if there is no war, the Crimea crisis is likely to alter fundamentally relations between Russia and the west and lead to changes in the global power balance, with Russia now in open competition with the United States and the European Union in the new eastern Europe. If this happens, a second round of the cold war may ensue as a punishment for leaving many issues unsolved – such as Ukraine's internal cohesion, the special position of Crimea, or the situation of Russian ethnics in the newly independent states; but, above all, leaving unresolved Russia's integration within the Euro-Atlantic community.
If a new Cold War is starting its unlikely to be anything like the old Cold War that so many Republicans seem to pine for. There won't be a renewed nuclear arms race. It will be based more on narrow nationalism driving conflicts of interests over resources, instead of a Titanic global clash of ideological dogmas.