Iran MP: Seeing Russia’s Putin in Power very difficult for USA to Accept… Head of Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee says the US is not happy with the reelection of the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s ruling party. Pointing to recent parliamentary election in Russia which was won by Putin’s ruling party, [...]
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December 15, 2011
December 12, 2011
EU Plans To Raise Election Issue At Upcoming Russia Summit
EU officials plan to raise the issue of Russia’s recent parliamentary elections, which the opposition claims were rigged, in talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev this week. Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for EU foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton, said she expected the issue would be raised at the EU-Russia summit due to take place on December 14-15 [...]
December 11, 2011
Winter festival brings fairy tales to life
With little snow to speak of so far, this winter has seemed mild by Moscow standards. So to make Muscovites feel more at home, the capital city has opened its first ever ice theatre on Revolution Square. It comes as a part of the city’s Russian Winter fes The show’s central sculpture is teremok, a [...]
December 11, 2011
Russian nationalists stage rally in downtown Moscow
Russian nationalist movements gathered on Sunday for an authorized rally in the center of Moscow. Most of the 250 nationalists who came to the rally on Bolotnaya Square – the site of a massive protest on Saturday against alleged electoral fraud at last week’s parliamentary polls – were young people with scarves and medical masks [...]
December 11, 2011
Russian expats protest amid wave of anger – and hope
As thousands of Russians descended on a park in central Moscow this week to protest against disputed elections won by Vladimir Putin‘s United Russia party, Alexey Kovalev began to feel something. “I could feel the buzz I felt in 1991 when I was out in the streets with my parents. I was watching the news, [...]
December 11, 2011
December 11, 2011
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 rally was initially scheduled to be held at Revolution Square, but when it became apparent that large numbers [...]
December 11, 2011
Tens of thousands rally in Russia vote protest
Tens of thousands of people streamed into central Moscow on Saturday to demand a rerun of last weekend’s parliamentary polls and vent their anger at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party. Demonstrations against alleged electoral fraud in favor of the ruling United Russia took place across the country, from the European exclave [...]
December 10, 2011
30,000: Moscow faces biggest protest in years
The biggest opposition rally in recent Russian history is taking place in the capital. The protest against the results of Russia’s December 4 parliamentary election is expected to draw a turnout of as many as 30,000. The rally is being held on Bolotnaya Square, in Central Moscow, on December 10 between 2 pm and 6 [...]
December 9, 2011
Russia braces for biggest protests of Putin era
Public anger over alleged electoral fraud in favor of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party is expected to bring thousands out onto the streets of Russia on Saturday in the largest demonstrations here for almost two decades. Protest rallies – both sanctioned and unsanctioned by the authorities – are planned for some one hundred Russian cities [...]
December 8, 2011
Moscow police seal off central square as opposition to rally
Police are setting up metal barriers along the perimeter of Triumfalnaya Square in central Moscow as opposition groups are preparing to stage a new unsanctioned rally to protest election fraud, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports. On Tuesday evening the square saw a rally that drew up to 5,000 people, including both opposition and pro-Kremlin youth [...]
December 7, 2011
Thousands gather for pro-United Russia rally (VIDEO)
Supporters of the ruling United Russia party rallied in central Moscow to celebrate the party’s victory in the recent parliamentary elections. The event, called “Clear victory,” gathered about ten thousand people. The participants included United Russia members and supporters, activists of “The Young Guards of United Russia,” and unions. The event was held in Revolution [...]
December 6, 2011
Thousands In Moscow Protest Election Results Favoring Putin, United Russia
MOSCOW — Several thousand people turned out on a cold and rainy night to protest what observers and opposition leaders say were rigged parliamentary elections that gave a fraudulent victory to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his ruling United Russia party. As an icy rain fell, an initial crowd of hundreds who gathered on [...]
December 5, 2011
Two Ukrainians robbed of 3 million euros in central Moscow
Four Muscovites stole a bag with three million euros from two Ukrainian nationals in downtown Moscow, a police source said on Monday. He said it took the police some 30 minutes to detain the thieves with the bag in northern Moscow on Saturday. The suspects, three unemployed Muscovites and a security guard, face up to [...]