VERSIONS: روسيا اليوم NOTICIAS FREEVIDEO ИНОТВ RTД
breakingnews
Go to main page   News   Russian poll protests: calm after the storm  
MORE ON THE STORY
People walk in the city center to attend a sanctioned rally in Bolotnaya square to protest against violations at the parliamentary elections in Moscow December 10, 2011 (RIA Novosti / Vladimir Astapkovich) 10.12.2011, 08:47 103 comments

Moscow faces biggest protest in years (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

The biggest opposition rally in recent Russian history has taken place in the capital. The protest against the results of Russia's December 4 parliamentary election has drawn an estimated turnout of between 25,000 and 40,000.

Parliamentary Elections 2011
RT Photo / Vitaliy Matveev 10.12.2011, 19:55 41 comments

Showcase protest: Smoking WC ‘worst thing’ at Moscow rally

Tens of thousands have attended a demonstration in Moscow to protest at the conduct of last weekend’s elections. Despite the logistical and security challenges, the event passed off remarkably peacefully and with no confrontations with police.

The head of Russia’s of leading independent election watchdog Golos (The Vote), Liliya Shibanova (AFP Photo / Alexey Sazonov) 09.12.2011, 01:28 45 comments

Emails expose watchdog's dollar deals

Russian news website Life News has published emails it claims show correspondence between the US State Dept. and the Russian election watchdog Golos discussing payments for work done to discredit the results of Russia’s parliamentary vote.

Parliamentary Elections 2011
Protests in Greece. AP video still shot. 07.12.2011, 23:10 121 comments

FOX, lies & the wrong videotape: What’s NOT happening in Moscow

With so much going on in the world today, one can see how easy it would be to get confused. Are those pictures of the war in Iraq or Afghanistan? Poverty in Somalia or Congo? And what’s a news program to do if there aren’t any good pictures?

Parliamentary Elections 2011

Russian poll protests: calm after the storm

Published: 11 December, 2011, 10:35
Edited: 11 December, 2011, 13:54

Rally "For Fair Elections" on Bolotnaya Square (RIA Novosti / Vladimir Ostapkovich)

(32.5Mb) embed video

TAGS: Election, Russia, Protest, Politics, Marina Dzhashi, Irina Galushko, Opposition


Russia has seen a week of post-election frenzy with protests over allegations of fraud in last Sunday’s poll hitting the streets. On Saturday, the biggest opposition rally in Russia’s recent history passed off peacefully, despite ominous predictions.

­According to police estimates, some 25,000 protesters gathered in Moscow alone, while opposition's estimates differ greatly – from 40,000 to 80,000 for the gathering in the capital’s Bolotnaya Square. The rally was held on December 10 between 2 pm and 6 pm MSC.

According to official reports, there were no arrests at the Moscow demonstration.

Other, less massive protests were also held in many other Russian cities, including St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Vladivostok.

The main demand of the opposition was “the annulment of the election results and the resignation of the Central Election Commission chairman." Protesters vowed to gather again on December 24 if their demands are not heard by the government.

This day of discontent came after a rather intense week for opposition forces in Russia. Protests on Monday and Tuesday, right after the parliamentary elections, saw hundreds of people arrested.

+8 (12 votes)
 
Back to top
next MORE NEWS
Image from Vkontakte.ru 11.12.2011, 07:01 3 comments

Toys rally against fraud: ‘nano-protest’ in Russia

While some Russian activists were denied official permission to hold a rally on Saturday, others went ahead, not needing permission at all... Because they are just toys.

Parliamentary Elections 2011
Afghans run from an explosion during a religious ceremony in Kabul city center on December 6, 2011 (AFP Photo / Massoud HOSSAINI) 11.12.2011, 11:23 7 comments

There’s still hope for Afghanistan – Russian envoy

Despite fears that the planned withdrawal of US troops will plunge Afghanistan into chaos, there are still two years left in which to help Kabul buck the doomy predictions, says Russia’s special envoy to the country, Zamir Kabulov.

Lizabeth December 23, 2011, 19:23
0

Created the greatest atricels, you have.

bobo (unregistered) December 14, 2011, 02:16
+1

Jewish, especially exiled Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe and Russia should stop meddling in the affairs that concern eastern Europeans and Russians. Sure Golos means “Voice” in Russian, but it also means “Exile” in Yiddish. Look up Jacob Golos (born Yakov Naumovich Reizen; 1889 -1943), who was a Ukrainian-born Jewish Bolshevik revolutionary. Reizen joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1904, becoming active in the group's Bolshevik wing headed by V.I. Lenin (also Jewish as was Leon Trotsky). He then became a secret police operative on behalf of the USSR in the USA. A founding member of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), around 1930 Golos became involved in the covert work of Jewish Soviet intelligence agencies, including the procurement of American passports by means of fraudulent documentation and the recruitment and coordination of the activities of a broad network of agents. He changed his name to Golos because of his involvement with a pro-Bolshevik daily newspaper published in New York, Russky Golos or The Russian Voice. So, the so called independent election monitoring agency that's making accusations of election fraud in Russia is just that, Jewish trouble-making to aggravate tensions between the East and the West as they did during the Cold War which was coined by a Jewish named Walter Lippmann, as was the idea of Communism by the Jewish Karl Marx.

bobo (unregistered) December 14, 2011, 02:15
-1

Jewish, especially exiled Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe and Russia should stop meddling in the affairs that concern eastern Europeans and Russians. Sure Golos means “Voice” in Russian, but it also means “Exile” in Yiddish. Look up Jacob Golos (born Yakov Naumovich Reizen; 1889 -1943), who was a Ukrainian-born Jewish Bolshevik revolutionary. Reizen joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1904, becoming active in the group's Bolshevik wing headed by V.I. Lenin (also Jewish as was Leon Trotsky). He then became a secret police operative on behalf of the USSR in the USA. A founding member of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), around 1930 Golos became involved in the covert work of Jewish Soviet intelligence agencies, including the procurement of American passports by means of fraudulent documentation and the recruitment and coordination of the activities of a broad network of agents. He changed his name to Golos because of his involvement with a pro-Bolshevik daily newspaper published in New York, Russky Golos or The Russian Voice. So, the so called independent election monitoring agency that's making accusations of election fraud in Russia is just that, Jewish trouble-making to aggravate tensions between the East and the West as they did during the Cold War which was coined by a Jewish named Walter Lippmann, as was the idea of Communism by the Jewish Karl Marx.