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Thousands defy crackdown in Moscow's biggest protest for years
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS AUGUST 10, 2019 / 7:32 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Thousands defy crackdown in Moscow's biggest protest for years
Maria Tsvetkova, Gleb Stolyarov
5 MIN READ
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Russians staged what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years on Saturday, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature.
Police rounded up scores of people after the demonstration in Moscow and at another rally in St Petersburg, and detained a leading opposition figure before it began. But the response from the authorities was milder than the previous week when more than 1,000 protesters were detained, sometimes violently.
The White Counter monitoring group said up to 60,000 people had attended the Moscow rally, describing it as the biggest in Russia for eight years. Police put turnout at 20,000.
A month of demonstrations over elections for the Moscow city legislature have turned into the biggest sustained protest movement in Russia since 2011-2013, when protesters took to the streets against perceived electoral fraud.
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Thousands defy crackdown in Moscow's biggest protest for years
Maria Tsvetkova, Gleb Stolyarov
5 MIN READ
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Russians staged what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years on Saturday, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature.
Police rounded up scores of people after the demonstration in Moscow and at another rally in St Petersburg, and detained a leading opposition figure before it began. But the response from the authorities was milder than the previous week when more than 1,000 protesters were detained, sometimes violently.
The White Counter monitoring group said up to 60,000 people had attended the Moscow rally, describing it as the biggest in Russia for eight years. Police put turnout at 20,000.
A month of demonstrations over elections for the Moscow city legislature have turned into the biggest sustained protest movement in Russia since 2011-2013, when protesters took to the streets against perceived electoral fraud.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-protests/thousands-defy-crackdown-in-moscows-biggest-protest-for-years-idUSKCN1V00CV
