الرئيسية
MOSCOW
(Reuters) - Several thousand people protested in central Moscow on
Monday against what they said was a fraudulent parliamentary election,
shouting "Revolution!" and calling for an end to Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin's rule.
The protest, a day after an election in which Russians sharply
reduced the parliamentary majority held by Putin's United Russia party,
appeared to be one of the biggest opposition demonstrations in Russia in
years.
Protesters initially gathered in the rain on a tree-lined boulevard
where they had permission for a rally. They denounced the vote as
shameful and shouted "Russia without Putin!"
Many protesters then tried to march out onto a major street and were
confronted by a chain of police officers who locked elbows and divided
the surging crowd into two parts. Several people were detained in the
area.
Several dozen protesters managed to break through or circle around
the police and marched toward the Kremlin. Police detained at least 30
near the Kremlin and bundled them into buses.
(Reporting by Thomas Grove and Maria Tsvetkova, Writing by Steve Gutterman, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
(Reuters) - Several thousand people protested in central Moscow on
Monday against what they said was a fraudulent parliamentary election,
shouting "Revolution!" and calling for an end to Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin's rule.
The protest, a day after an election in which Russians sharply
reduced the parliamentary majority held by Putin's United Russia party,
appeared to be one of the biggest opposition demonstrations in Russia in
years.
Protesters initially gathered in the rain on a tree-lined boulevard
where they had permission for a rally. They denounced the vote as
shameful and shouted "Russia without Putin!"
Many protesters then tried to march out onto a major street and were
confronted by a chain of police officers who locked elbows and divided
the surging crowd into two parts. Several people were detained in the
area.
Several dozen protesters managed to break through or circle around
the police and marched toward the Kremlin. Police detained at least 30
near the Kremlin and bundled them into buses.
(Reporting by Thomas Grove and Maria Tsvetkova, Writing by Steve Gutterman, Editing by Timothy Heritage)