Russia Will Stand Up to Putin, Says Jailed Former Oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Opponent confident mass protests and demands for more open democracy will thwart Russian PM’s attempts to remain in power By Luke Harding and Mark Rice-Oxley Sunday 26 February 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/26/russia-putin-elections-mikhail-khodorkovsky The Arab spring…
Putin Protesters Form Human Chain Enveloping Central Moscow
Putin Protesters Form Human Chain Enveloping Central Moscow 02/26/12 07:38 AM ET http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/26/putin-protests-human-chain-moscow_n_1302144.html MOSCOW — Thousands of people holding hands formed a 16-kilometer (10-mile) human chain encircling central Moscow on Sunday in…
Anti-Putin Protesters March Through Moscow
Tom Parfitt (in Moscow), The Guardian, Feb. 4, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/04/anti-putin-protests-moscow-russia Up to 120,000 Russian anti-government protesters demand political reform as Putin supporters stage counter-rally Tens of thousands of demonstrators have braved temperatures of…
Tens of Thousands of Protesters Pressure Putin
By Thomas Grove and Guy Faulconbridge http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7BN04720111224?sp=true MOSCOW (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of flag-waving and chanting protesters called on Saturday for a disputed parliamentary election to be rerun and an end to…
