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Moscow’s streets fill with protesters Tens of thousands of people demand government reform and continue to pressure President Vladimir Putin.
June 12, 2012
Nationalists carry a huge black-yellow-white flag of the Russian Empire as they take part in anti-Putin rally in Moscow. Tens of thousands of protesters chanting "Russia will be free" rallied today in Moscow against President Vladimir Putin's third term despite a police crackdown on their leaders a day earlier.
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Flag-waving and chanting demonstrators call for a disputed parliamentary election to be rerun, increasing pressure on Vladimir Putin as he seeks a new term as Russian president.
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Dec. 24, 2011
The size of the latest round of protests surprised the organizers. They estimate that 120,000 turned out in freezing temperatures. The Interior Ministry said 29,000 lined the streets.
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Demonstrators in Moscow cheer opposition leaders.
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Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was jailed until recently, speaks to the crowd.
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Russian opposition flags are a common sight during the demonstrations.
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Dec. 24, 2011
This protester's placard reads, "Freedom to political prisoners." The bird-shaped placard reads: "Russia without Putin."
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An "Another Russia" protester is arrested in St. Petersburg.
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Dec. 24, 2011
Protesters in Moscow hold a poster depicting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, second from right, and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, right, during a demonstration against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections.
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Dec. 21, 2011
Alexei Navalny, a prominent anti-corruption whistleblower and blogger, speaks to journalists after being released from police custody on the outskirts of Moscow. Navalny was detained Dec. 5, along with about 300 protesters who rallied against what they called vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections.
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Dec. 10, 2011
Demonstrators hold a red banner reading "Rot Front" and shout anti-Putin slogans during a mass rally to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections in Moscow.
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Dec. 10, 2011
A supporter of the Russian Communist Party roller-skates during a rally in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
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Dec. 10, 2011
Opposition activists protest in central Moscow.
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People wearing masks attend a rally on a bridge near Bolotnaya Square in Moscow.
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Protesters light flares during a rally in Moscow.
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Protesters shout slogans during a rally in downtown St. Petersburg that drew 10,000 people.
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Protesters light flares during a mass rally to protest against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections in Moscow.
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An opposition activist fights with a police officer during a rally in downtown St. Petersburg.
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Opposition activists protest against the alleged fraud in the Dec. 4 parliamentary polls in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar.
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A police officer, center, falls down as he tries to detain a demonstrator during protests against alleged vote rigging in Russia's parliamentary elections in Triumphal Square in Moscow. Protesters energized by the declining electoral fortunes of Russia's ruling party try for a third straight night of demonstrations in Moscow, facing off against a heavy police contingent.
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Dec. 7, 2011
Riot police detain a protester during a rally in downtown St. Petersburg. More than a thousand people have protested in St.Petersburg against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers said was rigged.
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Dec. 6, 2011
Opposition activists, left, and members of pro-Kremlin youth movements scuffle during demonstrations in Triumphal Square in Moscow. Police clashed Tuesday on a central Moscow square with demonstrators trying to hold a second day of protests against alleged vote fraud in Russia's parliamentary elections.
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Dec. 6, 2011
Police officers wearing riot gear hold an opposition activist, who was detained while taking part in an unauthorized rally in Triumphal Square in central Moscow. Opposition leaders defied Russian authorities on Tuesday by organizing a second mass protest in two days against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule, despite warnings of a police crackdown and the jailing of one of the organizers.
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Dec. 6, 2011
Activists with the pro-Kremlin youth movement rally in Manezhnaya Square in central Moscow to support the government’s decision to uphold election results. Several thousand people took to the streets in the capital despite freezing rain for a rally against the results of parliamentary elections, in which Putin's United Russia party won, albeit with a sharply reduced majority.
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Influential Russian blogger Alexei Navalny speaks during an opposition rally in central Moscow.Thousands of Russians rallied in central Moscow and St. Petersburg, protesting against alleged violations in legislative elections that handed victory to Vladimir Putin's ruling party with a reduced majority.
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Dec. 5, 2011
Members of pro-Kremlin youth groups attend a rally in Moscow as they celebrate United Russia's victory in the parliamentary elections. The ruling party of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won Russia's elections but with a sharply reduced majority, marking a blow for the strongman ahead of his planned return to the Kremlin next year.
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Police officers detain an opposition activist during a protest against vote rigging in St.Petersburg. Security was tight in the city. Police said they arrested more than 100 protesters in Moscow, who tried to stage an unsanctioned rally, and about 70 others in St. Petersburg.
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Dec. 5, 2011
Russian Interior Ministry troops detain people in St. Petersburg during a rally, organized via social networks, against the election results. International monitors said the election process was slanted in favor of United Russia throughout the campaign and was compromised by the use of state resources on the party's behalf.
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Russian police detain an opposition activist during a protest against vote rigging in St. Petersburg.
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Dec. 4, 2011
Anarchists burn flares, shout and hold a banner during a protest after voting closed in Russia's parliamentary election in central Moscow. The banner reads, "We were cheated."
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Police detain an activist during a protest rally by opposition group Another Russia in central Moscow. Russia's only independent election monitor called the election the most flawed ever.
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, gestures during a news conference at the party headquarters in Moscow after voting closed in parliamentary elections. Zhirinovsky's party never votes against the government, but with its support more crucial than before for the ruling United Russia party, it could display newfound independence.
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Electoral commission staff members empty a ballot box after voting closed at a polling station in the town of Roslavl, about 250 miles southwest of Moscow. An independent elections monitor had registered more than 2,000 complaints of elections violations by Sunday night.
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