Some people protest...(sorry fire_81)

Dec 05, 2011 14:35

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111205/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_election

Several thousand people protested Monday night against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers said was rigged.

It was perhaps the largest opposition rally in years and ended with police detaining some of the activists. A group of several hundred marched toward the Central Elections Commission near the Kremlin, but were stopped by riot police and taken away in buses. The total number of those detained was not immediately available.

Estimates of the number of protesters at the rally ranged from 5,000 to 10,000. They chanted "Russia without Putin" and accused his United Russia party of stealing votes.

I hope the Russian people get what they want.

russia, news

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