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Owner59 -> Protests in Russia start today,the biggets since the fall of the USSR (12/10/2011 7:58:55 AM)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16122524
This is there own OWS movement.I heard a Russin journalist interviewed on NPR saying there would be protests in over a hundred Russian cities.
They have their own form of form of facebook and have FB as well, to do the networking.
"As many as 50,000 people gathered on an island near the Kremlin to condemn alleged ballot-rigging in parliamentary elections and demand a re-run.
Other, smaller rallies took place in St Petersburg and other cities.
Communists, nationalists and Western-leaning liberals turned out together despite divisions between them.
The protesters allege there was widespread fraud in Sunday's polls though the ruling United Russia party did see its share of the vote fall sharply.
Demonstrations in the immediate aftermath of the election saw more than 1,000 arrests, mostly in Moscow, and several key protest leaders such as the anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny were jailed.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has never experienced popular protests like these before, the BBC's Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow.
During his decade in power, first as president then prime minister, he has grown used to being seen as Russia's most popular and powerful politician.
But as one of the protesters put it to our correspondent, Russia is changing."
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