Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
"A few thousand people in Petersburg" protesting, a Ekho Moskvy journalist reports.

But the truth is in Putin's actions, his fear. Thousands of riot police & military vehicles in streets for every protest, large or small.

At another protest....Novosibirsk
People are not afraid anymore.

In Moscow....
Moscow protest is at no fixed place, all the way along two-mile street. Lots of people walking peacefully by. (Obv some not protest linked)
10,000 Russian protesters here.

Also, Interfax seemingly the only russian press agency to report on the protests. RIA quiet, nothing on Yandex Novosti.

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Sudden movement of police in side street to grab random people.. including colleague @ASLuhn scooped up from under my nose
ASLuhn reports alot on Ukraine

Pretty messy here. Clashes with riot police as people try to stop a bus with detained driving off

If authorities decide to take the same line as they did in 2012 Bolotnaya protests, some of those people are going to end with prison terms

Another Russian opposition leader, the more nationalist Vyacheslav Maltsev, arrives with supporters
Russians are critical about everything in Russia—economy, corruption, foreign wars. But very hard to blame the one man in total control.