RUSSIAN POLICE ARREST ACTIVISTS DURING PROTESTS OVER ELECTION FRAUD

Several thousand protesters took to the streets of Moscow on Monday night and accused Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party of rigging this weekend's parliamentary election in which it won the largest share of the seats.
It was perhaps the biggest opposition rally in years and ended with police detaining about 300 activists. A group of several hundred marched toward the Central Elections Commission near the Kremlin, but were stopped by riot police and taken away in buses.
Estimates of the number of protesters ranged from 5,000 to 10,000. They chanted "Russia without Putin" and accused his United Russia party of stealing votes.
United Russia won about 50 percent of Sunday's vote, a result that opposition politicians and election monitors said was inflated because of ballot-box stuffing and other vote fraud. It was a significant drop from the last election, when the party took 64 percent.
The result has energised the opposition and poses a humbling challenge to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in his drive to return to the presidency - 6 December 2011.

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[surfpub2001]

LMAO... couple of hundred protestors in Russia about voting yet in America our government tries to suppress the ANTI-wallstreet movement.

[freedom44ify]

The US should mind their own business when it comes to other countries protesting. They treat their own American protesters like crap, they beat them, pepper spay them and arrest 800 people. The US goes around the world over throwing governments and bombs the crap out of the country. Then calls it freedom and democracy.

[ManoftheBeret]

@freedom44ify I've eaten tear gas and sat in jail in Oakland for demonstrating. I was there when they raided our camp, beat us, and threw us in jail. I was there when they shot Scott Olsen. I despise the American government. It's because of this that I support my brothers and sisters fighting the same fight in Russia, and wherever else people are struggling to get boots off their necks.

[ArtiomRadiuk]

@surfpub2001 fake

[trupoed11]

@JosephStalin11 how dare you american dog to use great stalins name?

[PassOnTheTruth]

The Usa is a joke! It is in no position to criticise Putin!

Putin has stopped the invaders from invading more countries

watch?v=ztc-S9U4Cgs

Is that the reason why America hates Putin so much? Looks like it!

[JosephStalin11]

Dumb Russians

[surfpub2001]

protesters*