These are external links and will open in a new window. Two year-old Russian youths fired at police from a cottage window for several hours before their bodies were found with gunshot wounds. The drama, in Russia's western Pskov region, was streamed live on the video app Periscope by the boy, Denis, and his girlfriend Katya. Dozens of their friends watched it, Russian media say.
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In March , 60, Russians took to the streets in 80 cities protesting government corruption. Hundreds of people were arrested and imprisoned including my dad, Alexei. My name is Daria Navalnaya. When I saw people my age going outside and not being afraid, it made me want to find out how young people like me in Russia really feel about politics, our government, and our futures.
Putin tries to woo Russian teens with live TV show
Moscow AFP - President Vladimir Putin on Friday took part in a live television show, fielding questions from Russian youngsters in an apparent bid to connect with teenagers who have been flocking to opposition rallies. Putin, his shirt collar unbuttoned, faced his young audience at an educational centre for gifted children from 10 to 17 year of age in the Black Sea city of Sochi for a show called "A Grown-up Conversation" televised by the pro-Kremlin NTV channel. The year-old leader revealed gaping holes in his knowledge of youth culture when asked whether he scrolled through Instagram or other social networks in his spare moments. However he compared chat names used in the Internet with the use of pseudonyms when he trained at spy school to become a KGB agent, revealing that his pseudonym was Platov. Putin took part in the two and a half hour show, the first of its kind, as the Kremlin appears to be wooing youth support, following high turnout by teenagers at rallies organised by top opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
In two 15 year-old kids, a boy named Denis and a girl named Katya, ran away from home and barricaded themselves up in a cottage in a part of western Russia. They had guns, alcohol, and a cell phone. For three days they used the phone to live-stream video of themselves drinking and shooting at police outside. It was tragic.