Some interesting data on attempts by the Russian Capitalist establishment to undermine popular action....
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2005/02/22/002.html
Mystery Protesters Provoking Trouble
By Carl Schreck
Staff Writer
Yelena Kashirina says she knows almost everyone from the Moscow chapter of Red Youth Vanguard. But when the leftist group stages demonstrations, dozens of young people she doesn't know mysteriously show up.
The anonymous protesters wear the right clothes and chant the right catchphrases, but then they become aggressive, causing the police to step in and break things up. "After that they disappear immediately," said Kashirina, 19.
Red Youth Vanguard and other left-leaning political groups believe their rallies are being targeted and infiltrated by agents provocateur planted by the police and Federal Security Service, or FSB. The goal, they say, is to surreptitiously undermine and marginalize anti-government demonstrations, especially in light of the widespread protests over social reforms that have prompted calls for the resignation of President Vladimir Putin and the government.
OK - my Comrades may get angry that I say this.... but Comrade Interrupt has alluded to exactly this sort of thing occuring with the NBP. And we now have a fairly Conservative publication agreeing with him....
