The crackdown has, of course, extended to the Chechen separatists whose destruction ("Should we catch them in a shithouse, we'll whack them in a shithouse!" he once said) was Putin's first real claim to leadership fame.
This domestic crackdown has of course occurred as President Vladimir Putin has positioned himself as a strong man who can restore Russia's reputation on the world stage as a great power.
Asked about the crackdown Ai Weiwei said: "Of course, everybody is concerned".
Sex workers have endured in the face of many crackdowns over the years, of course, but rarely have they experienced a potential economic shockwave quite like this one.
The company has dealt with a couple hiccups over the past few years: most notably the shift from Worio, a new CEO in Mark Johnson, and of course, a massive crackdown from unhappy news sites over Zite's UI.
Of course, the Government's crackdown offers great symbolic benefits.
Of course, there is no crackdown on pop stars having stupid opinions: Kanye is a free man; Gay-Twitter doesn't have carceral powers.
Of course, the post-Oakland crackdown, which we'll be tracking in real-time starting today, isn't the first instance of authorities policing music venues and the people who frequent them.
His government appears to have unleashed a brutal crackdown — hunting down human rights activists, journalists and, of course, demonstrators themselves, all while trying to block citizens from Tahrir Square.
So in backing calls for greater powers to local authorities to control their own patch (Scotland wants to do so too), and for a central government crackdown too, Jowell, Frank Field and others (paywall) are right, of course.
