Friday, December 12, 2008

Medvedev heckled at Kremlin

MOSCOW (AP) - It's not every day that Kremlin gets a heckler.
President Dmitry Medvedev was giving a speech to scientists and bureaucrats Friday marking Constitution Day when a young man stood up and started yelling.

TV footage showed the man yelling "Why are you listening to him?" and "He's violated the rights and freedoms of people and citizens!" for a few seconds before security agents grabbed him.

The audience looked startled and murmured while Medvedev kept speaking. The Russian president then smirked, telling security agents to wait to whisk the man away.

Medvedev said to applause that "the purpose of the Constitution is to allow everyone to voice his opinion" before the man was taken away.

The man was later identified as a well-known youth activist, Roman Dobrokhotov. It wasn't immediately clear how he gained access to the famously secure Kremlin.

Dobrokhotov could not be immediately located for comment.

Friday marks the 15th anniversary of the adoption of Russia's post-Soviet constitution.

BreitBart

I wonder which constitution he's talking about, last weeks, this weeks?

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