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Tens of thousands of people have rallied in central Moscow in a show of anger at alleged electoral fraud.
They passed a resolution "not to give a single vote to Vladimir Putin" at next year's presidential election.
Protest leader Alexei Navalny told the crowd to loud applause that Russians would no longer tolerate corruption.
...At least 28,000 people turned out in the capital, according to the Russian interior ministry, but rally organisers said the true number was around 120,000...
Rallies against ballot-rigging were reported across Russia's time zones on Saturday by Interfax
In the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, a rally of between 800 and 1,500 people passed off peacefully
About 100 people braved a frost of -15C in Orenburg on the border with Kazakhstan
About 500 people rallied in Chelyabinsk in the southern Urals under the slogan "These elections were a farce! We want honest elections"
Several arrests were made at a rally in St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin's home city
Lets hope cooler heads prevail here.
Russian state TV totted up the votes in the Rostov region to a total of more than 146%. Even with Russia's patchy electoral history that's an impressive tally...
Originally posted by steppenwolf86
reply to post by Afterthought
Wait, now people are agreeing that there was fraud, yet when I posted about Hillary Clinton wanting to investigate the Russian elections, people insisted there was no need?
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Wait, now people are agreeing that there was fraud, yet when I posted about Hillary Clinton wanting to investigate the Russian elections, people insisted there was no need?
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Your thread was about Clinton wanting to investigate somebody else's business, this thread is about a turn out of Russia's population against their government!
Completely different topic!
Originally posted by TheEnlightenedOne
Originally posted by steppenwolf86
reply to post by Afterthought
Wait, now people are agreeing that there was fraud, yet when I posted about Hillary Clinton wanting to investigate the Russian elections, people insisted there was no need?
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Your thread was about Clinton wanting to investigate somebody else's business, this thread is about a turn out of Russia's population against their government!
Completely different topic!