United Russia's youth celebrate non-stop

5 Dec, 2007 19:36 / Updated 16 years ago

There's been no let-up in celebrations following United Russia's landslide victory in Sunday's Duma election. More than 5,000 young activists of the Mestnye movement, which means 'Locals', gathered in central Moscow to demand that President Putin's polici

The Communists have also held a rally, to protest against what they say was election fraud. The party came second in the poll with 11.6 per cent of the votes. However, they say they got almost twice that number. The official results of the election will be announced on Friday.