Tens of thousands of Russians staged yesterday what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature.Police rounded up scores of people after the demonstration in Moscow and at another rally in Saint Petersburg, and detained a leading opposition figure before it began.However, the response from the authorities was milder than the previous week when more than 1,000 protesters were detained, sometimes violently.The White Counter monitoring group said up to 60,000 people had attended the Moscow rally, describing it as the biggest in Russia for eight …read more
Source: Gulf times
