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Thousands Rally Across Russia in New Challenge to Kremlin
AP PHOTO/ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO
Hundreds arrested, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny, at Monday protests against corruption
A young demonstrator is apprehended by riot police during a
demonstration in downtown Moscow, Russia June 12. Russian
opposition leader Alexei Navalny, aiming to repeat the nationwide
protests that rattled the Kremlin three months ago, has called for a
last-minute location change for a Moscow demonstration that could
provoke confrontations with police.
By Nataliya Vasilyeva
and Jim Heintz
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — Tens
of thousands of protest-
ers held anti-corruption
rallies across Russia on
Monday in a new show
“
the rally in the city cen-
ter.
The Moscow protest
was the most promi-
nent in a string of more
than 100 rallies in cities
and towns stretching
through all 11 of Russia’s
time zones — from the
them.
The protests coincided
with Russia Day, a na-
tional holiday that this
year brought out histor-
ical re-enactors, some of
them dressed in medieval
costumes. At one point,
the Moscow demonstra-
tion featured an unlikely
scene of about 5,000 pro-
testers rallying next to
an enclosure with geese,
a medieval catapult and
bearded men in home-
made tunics and carry-
ing wooden shields.
The
re-enactors
watched the rally before
riot police broke up the
crowd and randomly
seized the protesters.
Over 700 people were
arrested in Moscow,
while in St. Petersburg,
about 500 were forced
into police buses at an
unsanctioned rally that
drew up to 10,000 people.
The
demonstrators
appeared to skew pre-
The demonstrators appeared to skew pre-
dominantly younger — those who were born
or grew up during Putin’s 17 years in power
of defiance by an oppo-
sition that the Kremlin
had once dismissed as
ineffectual and margin-
alized.
Hundreds were arrest-
ed — including opposi-
tion leader and protest
organizer Alexei Na-
valny, who was seized
outside his Moscow res-
idence while heading to
Pacific to the European
enclave of Kaliningrad
— with many denounc-
ing President Vladimir
Putin.
Thousands of angry
demonstrators thronged
to Tverskaya Street, a
main avenue in the capi-
tal, chanting “Down with
the czar” and singing
the Russian national an-
dominantly younger —
those who were born or
grew up during Putin’s
17 years in power. Simi-
lar crowds turned out on
March 26, rattling offi-
cials who had perceived
the younger generation
as largely apolitical.
Three 16-year-old girls
brought sheets of paper
to the Moscow protest
and sat on the pavement
to write the articles of
the Russian Constitution
on them; a nearby group
of teenagers climbed
atop of a tent with post-
ers saying, “Corruption
kills the future.” Other
protesters scaled a scaf-
fold and hung a sign
saying, “Only revolution
will defeat corruption.”
School and university
staff who reportedly rep-
rimanded their students
for attending the March
protests warned them
against going to Mon-
day’s rally.
Ivan Sukhoruchenkov,
19, attended anyway with
four university class-
mates to protest what he
described as “stagnation
of the political system.”
“Change is always
good,” Sukhoruchenkov
said, adding that he and
his friends were con-
cerned about corruption
— Navalny’s rallying cry
— that “manifests itself
in all areas: from traffic
police to university pro-
fessors.”
Navalny had called the
anti-corruption demon-
strations, and they drew
crowds of several dozen
to the 10,000 in St. Peters-
burg. Some of the rallies
were sanctioned by au-
thorities and peaceful,
but police cracked down
brutally on others.
Although it was not im-
mediately clear if Mon-
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Obituary: Evelyn “Evie” Crowell
March 17,1936- June 5, 2017
E
included sewing and
velyn (Evie)Crowell
knitting clothes for her
was born in Sagi-
family, opera, theater,
naw, Michigan on
traveling and learning
March 17, 1936 to
about new places. One of
Cedric Crowell Sr. and
her greatest passions was
Elva
(Tucker-Crowell)
education and making
Bagley. She was the sec-
sure that everyone had
ond of their two children.
access to it, if they want-
In 1942 Cedric Crowell
ed it. This is reflected in
Sr., along with his two
the scholarships that she
children, brother Albert
Evelyn “Evie” Crowell
established: The Evelyn
Crowell Jr. and father Al-
bert Crowell Sr. moved to Portland to I Crowell Endowed Opera Scholar-
ship (PSU), The Evelyn I Crowell En-
work in the war industries.
Evie graduated from Girls Polytech- dowed Theater and Film Scholarship
nic High School. She was in the third (PSU), The Albert Crowell, Jr Memo-
graduating class from Portland State rial Scholarship (PSU), The Evelyn
College in 1959 (which became Port- Crowell Scholarship through the PCC
land State University), and went on to Foundation, and The Evelyn Crowell
receive her master’s degree from the Endowed Scholarship (University of
University of Washington. She was an Portland).
Evie was preceded in death by her
active member of Delta Sigma Theta
parents Cedric Crowell Sr. and Elva
sorority for over 50 years.
Evie had deep roots in N/NE Port- (Bagley) Crowell, her beloved uncle
land, where she lived for over 55 Albert Crowell Jr and her half-sister
years, and raised her two children, Roxie (Bagley) Clemons. She is sur-
Russell Crowell and Kymberlee Crow- vived by her two children Russell
ell. She was active in the community Crowell (Mill Creek, Washington) and
and served on many boards, which in- Kymberlee Crowell (Portland, Ore-
clude the Portland School Board, Ore- gon), her brother Cedric Crowell Jr.
gon State Library Board of Trustees, (Portland, Oregon), many nieces and
Portland Center Stage and the Oregon nephews, five grandchildren and two
Symphony. She was also the first Afri- great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family re-
can-American board president to lead
quests donation to the American Can-
the YWCA.
She served as a librarian at Portland cer Society.
A Homegoing service will be held
State University in the Millar Library
from 1972 until her retirement in on Thursday, June 15, 11 a.m. at Mt.
Olivet Baptist Church. Arrangements
2002.
Evie had many passions, which by Terry Family Funeral Home.