50,000 demonstrate in Moscow in third weekend of protests for fair elections
Source: LA Times
Aug. 10--MOSCOW -- Some 50, 000 people rallied in central Moscow on Saturday to demand fair elections, the largest demonstration in a series of protests this summer that has rattled the Kremlin and posed the biggest political challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin in seven years.
Unlike previous rallies, which were met with harsh police crackdown that led to thousands of detentions and violent beatings with truncheons, Saturday 's demonstration was approved by the government and saw only scant confrontations between riot police and protesters. Nonetheless, more than 225 demonstrators were detained, almost 150 of them in Moscow and more than 80 at a second protest in St. Petersburg.
The tens of thousands of protesters ignored drizzling rain and unseasonably cold weather to gather in Moscow 's Sakharov Square just off the capital city 's central Garden Ring road, chanting such slogans as "Russia will be free !" and "Release the political prisoners !"
Moscow 's protest movement for fair elections began in early July, after the city 's elections commission rejected several opposition candidates ' applications to run in a Sept. 8 vote for the 45- seat Moscow City Duma, the capital 's city council. The current council is dominated by the pro- Kremlin United Russia party, which the opposition accuses of engaging in corrupt schemes that pilfer city budget funds.
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theophilus
(3,750 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Keep playing your internet games, and no Trump doesn't know a damn thing.
Princetonian
(1,501 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)happening here. The gop models itself after Putin and his cabal. They LOVE anyone with plenty of cash, who freely gives it to them. Moscow Mitch has to go, while we still have some decent laws on the books. tRump is a disaster, always has been always will be. The gop knows this better than anyone, yet he comes in handy signing their lousy bills into laws.
Mc Mike
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(17,663 posts)a la izquierda
(11,795 posts)let that power keep these folks safe.
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)can't take crap either. People power is the best power.
DBoon
(22,366 posts)oh really!
Gotta keep them under control
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)how odd...