At least 1,090 have been arrested at protests around Russia against @navalny's jailing

One of the protesters in Moscow. Looks familiar somehow...
.@navalny protesters are young & angry. Riot police not in a good mood either
13 arrested protesting @navalny's jailing even in far-off Yakutsk, where it was -54F today (via @shaunwalker7)
Now at least 1,338 @navalny protesters have been arrested around Russia. Kids in Moscow start throwing snowballs at riot police (via @tggrove @OvdInfo)
These kids. Just kicking around a riot police helmet
"We're doing everything to keep you safe," the loudspeaker tells @navalny protesters as police beat them
.@tvrain has an English version of their livestream from the @navalny protest (via @tikhondzyadko) https://t.co/cHHHVkGlg7
I remember when Russian opposition protests used to be mostly middle-aged guys listening to speeches with a flask of cognac to keep warm...
Police have thrown smoke grenades in downtown Moscow
"Fascists!" Snowballs vs batons in Moscow
Among many journalists arrested covering the protests: Roman Anin of @istories_media, @ars_ves of @EchoMskRu, Alexander Sivtsov of @meduzaproject, Mikhail Sheptun of @RTVi & @merr1k of @mediazzzona, whose arm police broke during Putin's constitution vote https://t.co/advdteBDuq
Never too early to start arresting 'em
More than 1,600 arrested in 80+ cities at the biggest protests Russia has seen in several years, @OvdInfo says. An estimated 40,000 turned out in Moscow
The Snowball Revolution
There's more where that came from
Yep not your same old Russian protests. The car belongs to the FSB & the driver has been hospitalized with an eye injury, state news says
"Remember this video when they start telling us tomorrow about how barbaric the Muscovites who came out in the streets were" https://t.co/DN2cCB8EbU
The Belarusian scenario, you'll remember, is hundreds of days of protests, brutal arrests, torture in detention centers, leaders exiled & imprisoned... (via @SabraAyres) https://t.co/ceC4VNndpd
For those of you inured to Russian police brutality
Let's do it again next weekend, @navalny activists say https://t.co/N5AnPJ9Su3

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The Swastik is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon. Swastik has been Sanatan Dharma’s symbol of auspiciousness – mangalya since time immemorial.


The name swastika comes from Sanskrit (Devanagari: स्वस्तिक, pronounced: swastik) &denotes “conducive to wellbeing or auspicious”.
The word Swastik has a definite etymological origin in Sanskrit. It is derived from the roots su – meaning “well or auspicious” & as meaning “being”.


"सु अस्ति येन तत स्वस्तिकं"
Swastik is de symbol through which everything auspicios occurs

Scholars believe word’s origin in Vedas,known as Swasti mantra;

"🕉स्वस्ति ना इन्द्रो वृधश्रवाहा
स्वस्ति ना पूषा विश्ववेदाहा
स्वस्तिनास्तरक्ष्यो अरिश्तनेमिही
स्वस्तिनो बृहस्पतिर्दधातु"


It translates to," O famed Indra, redeem us. O Pusha, the beholder of all knowledge, redeem us. Redeem us O Garudji, of limitless speed and O Bruhaspati, redeem us".

SWASTIK’s COSMIC ORIGIN

The Swastika represents the living creation in the whole Cosmos.


Hindu astronomers divide the ecliptic circle of cosmos in 27 divisions called
https://t.co/sLeuV1R2eQ this manner a cross forms in 4 directions in the celestial sky. At centre of this cross is Dhruva(Polestar). In a line from Dhruva, the stars known as Saptarishi can be observed.