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Russia: Blogger Throws Shoe at Samara Mayor

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 @ 01:03 UTC

by Alexey Sidorenko

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Countries:: Russia
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Cyber-Activism
Languages:: Russian

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Russie : Un blogueur lance une chaussure sur le maire de Samara

Looks like political shoe-throwing is becoming mainstream not only in Iraq. The world has seen the sixth case recently, when, during a press conference, Vitaly Papilkin (aka LJ user papilkin [RUS]) threw his shoe at Samara mayor Viktor Tarhov, elected to his post in one of Russia's largest cities (pop. 1.13 million) in 2007. Two YouTube videos [RUS] of the incident are available - Video 1 and Video 2.

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