BBC
Popular blogger Alexei Navalny railed against the ruling Putin party...calling it "a party of crooks and thieves" ...at an annual nationalist rally of 7,000 outside Moscow.
"This is our country, and we have to eradicate the crooks who suck our blood and eat our liver," proclaimed Navalny, a lawyer.
The sanctioned gathering celebrated Russia's National Unity Day...but was held in Lyublino...outside Moscow.
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