An authorized rally in support of fair elections held by the opposition in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on Sunday gathered some 200 people or five times less than the organizers planned.
Participants in the demonstration included activists of the A Just Russia party, the unregistered People’s Freedom Party (Parnas), the Communist Party and the Blue Ribbon and Internet Community public movements.
The demonstrators also included representatives of the interregional Ussuriysk Cossack military society, the Khabarovsk scout organization, residents of Komsomolsk-on-Amur and the Khabarovsk Territory, members of garage cooperatives and a group of nationalists.
The demonstrators carried posters calling for fair elections and against a third presidential term for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The demonstration took place just a week before presidential elections in Russia, in which Putin is widely expected to win his third term in the Kremlin.
